It is unfortunate that Bush, Cheney, Powell, Rice, Rumsfeld, and
company became the only faces of American aggression. They are indeed
responsible for the 2003 invasion but imperialism is still on the move
and now has a more shrewd personification in the person of Barack Obama.
The corporate media have quite a lot to answer for in their reporting
of the Iraqi and American relationship. They take their cue from
whoever is in the White House and repeat what countless spokespeople
tell them to write and to broadcast. After having accepted the Bush
administration policy of embedding journalists with American troops,
Iraq was then ignored and disappeared from the consciousness of this
country. Recent events have made Iraq a focus of attention once again
and the news is still terrible for the people of that country.
-- Margaret Kimberley, "Freedom Rider: America’s War Crime in Iraq" (Black Agenda Report).