Reply #6: See book 'Weapons of Mass Deception' or article linked below [View All]

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I'd heard about the Rendon Group and Paul Moran on a segment of Democracy Now! back in August.http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/08/1510227&mode=thread&tid=25
The segment had one of the authors (John Stauber or Sheldon Rampton) called Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush’s War on Iraq.

He described how the Rendon Group decided to paint Chalabi as 'the Iraqi George Washington' and came up with the name 'Iraqi National Congress', and how major PR firms did multi-million dollar jobs to brighten up the reputation of the Saudis after 9-11 by putting ads on US TV and creating gront groups like Alliance for Peace.

Here's an In These Times article that summarizes much of the book: http://inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=299_0_1_0_M and an excerpt:

“Did you ever stop to wonder,” Rendon asked, “how the people of Kuwait City, after being held hostage for seven long and painful months, were able to get hand-held American, and for that matter, the flags of other coalition countries?” He paused for effect. “Well, you now know the answer. That was one of my jobs then.”