Talk:Public relations preparations for 2003 invasion of Iraq

message: According to a Harris Poll released July 21 found that 50% of U.S. respondents said they believe Iraq had the forbidden arms when U.S. troops invaded in March 2003. This was reported in numerous news articles, such as The State (http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/15215272.htm) and The Washington Post (http://blog.washingtonpost.com/offbeat/2006/08/do_you_believe_in_wmd.html). PJ 06:54, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  False Public Perception 

message: About the time that Hussein's sons were captured, several storys appeared about their brutality, eg torturing iraqi athletes who performed poorly. These stories always seemed to me slightly over done  - any comment ?
Well, not so much the athletes one. Many nations, even nations where you may have quite a bit of freedom (as long as its not against the Government), use athletes in this way. Torture if they dont win by a certain amount, if they leave (either the nation or training) they arrest them and their families. That sort of thing. As for Saddams sons, mostly it was that they were in charge of departments that killed rebels or tortured them for information, but alegations of rape seem to be that one of his sons had the habit of when out and asking a woman to have sex with him he would have her arrested if she denied him and sometimes rape her anyway.
This, while ridiculously horrible even for Saddams sons, was very exagerated. It was usually in private parties or from women he met personally, rather than "picking them off the street" like the US presented. 119.11.14.103 (talk) 03:09, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: alleged brutality by Hussein's childrenn

message: The sections “Orchestrated deception campaign” and “Manufactured Evidence” are strongly biased; Secondary to it’s rehashing of tired old “Bash BUSH” propaganda is, most tellingly, THIS LINE “For example, on at least 532 occasions top Bush Administration officials stated unequivocally that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, or was trying to produce or obtain them, or had links to al Qaeda, or both. These statements were demonstrably false.”  Within this, the claim that these statements were “demonstrably false” is, itself, demonstrably false; Besides the belief held by many that Saddam did have these unfound “mobile chemical weapons labs” (which have been compared to an American mobile methamphetamine labs) is the undeniable attempts by Saddam to ensure a perception that he had them amongst his own people. To say that BUSH, et el, were “lying” when they claimed these things did exist is pure propaganda. The sections must be stripped. 152.121.19.13 (talk) 20:24, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added it to the NPOV page.  The link to the discussion is currently here: Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view/Noticeboard#Public_relations_preparations_for_2003_invasion_of_Iraq--Padenton (talk) 14:20, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV Dispute (Yes, ''ANOTHER'' One)

message: FYI the discussion about merging this article can now be found here: Talk:2003 invasion of Iraq/Archive 8#Merger proposal. The discussion was between 3 user from 18-19 March 2012; it involved 4 posts (including the initial "Merger proposal" post) and then discussion was abandoned. There was no consensus about merging the article into 2003 invasion of Iraq versus into Rationale for the Iraq War. If this article's content was merged to 2003 invasion of Iraq, it is now gone (there isn't even any mention of Suskind). This justifies restoring this article.  selfwormTalk) 21:00, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger and proposed restoration

message: A lot of information was removed in this edit. The edit comment says "stick to simple exposition of fact and not blatant POV from any side , Suskind should get only one mention - and MSNBC stated it was 'Suskind's opinion' , entire article appears to be POV SYNTH at best" but this comment does not justify all of the content that was removed (at most it justifies removal of only some information). 
I propose that the article be restored to its state prior to this mass removal of information.  selfwormTalk) 21:00, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Mass deletion of information