ABSTRACT
The media pulled behind the George Bush administration and Pentagon and faithfully advanced their war policies until the end, compliant servants of power. Cable News Network's Charles Bierbauer reported from the White House that Marlin Fitzwater was complaining that there was nothing that the Bush administration could respond to, "no authoritative contact," and so "the war goes on." Bush's national security adviser, Scowcroft, appeared in news clips saying that the "Iraqis were virtually producing genocide in Kuwait City." The Bush administration and Pentagon consistently exaggerated the power, the evil, and the magnitude of the Iraqi military which was obviously out of its league militarily. H. Norman Schwarzkopf's presentation of seemingly superior Iraqi military forces confronting underdog allied forces was highly misleading. Schwarzkopf justified the destruction of Iraq's infrastructure on military terms, claiming that the destruction of Iraq's roads, bridges, communications facilities, power plants, and industrial infrastructure would make it impossible for Iraq to supply its troops in Kuwait.
