"The whole operation of deception": Reconstructing President Bush's rhetoric of weapons of mass destruction

Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 152-197

  Hartnett, Stephen J ^a   Stengrim, Laura A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Joseph Wilson; President Bush; War on Iraq; Weapons of mass destruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745979882     PISSN: 15327086     EISSN: 1552356X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1532708603262787     Document Type: Article

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