The administration's handling of tensions with Iran has drawn comparisons to the lead-up to the Iraq war. But today's media landscape is vastly different, writes television critic LorraineAli:
at U.S bases in Iraq late Tuesday — also signaled that this wasn’t going to be like the last time we engaged in war in the region.
President George W. Bush aboard the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in May 2003, delivering his “Mission Accomplished” speech about the war in Iraq. Rumor is there’s a strained relationship between the current White House and the press corps. Perhaps Suleimani did pose an “imminent threat,” but reporters who’ve been locked in a mutual cycle of distrust with Trump since 2016 aren’t going to just take his word for it.Even staunch Trump defender Tucker Carlson voiced doubt about the motives of the attack. “Nobody mourns his passing … but Mexico and China are also linked to the deaths of Americans,” he said Friday.
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