Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Approaching Propaganda with a Critical Eye Part 1: Defining Propaganda and Historicizing America's Wars in the Middle East 1. Theorizing Propaganda: Intertextuality, Manipulation, and Power 2. The Persian Gulf War and the War on Terror: A Brief History Part 2: Manufacturing an Atrocity 3. How the Incubator Story Became news: The Power of Performative Semiotics 4. Keeping War Fever Alive: The Circulation of the Incubator Story Part 3: Infiltrating Network News 5. Message Force Multipliers: Rewarding Recontextualization 6. Enacting and Entextualizing the Voice of the Expert 7. The Evolution of a Talking Point Part 4: The Art of the Slogan 8.

"Support Our Troops" as Portable Text and Cultural Tradition 9. "Support Our Troops" as Vertical and Horizontal Propaganda Conclusion: War Propaganda and the Prospects for Resistance Appendixes A Studying Discourse in Context B Factors Facilitating Detachability and Recontextualization C Data and Methods for Intertextual Analysis of the Incubator Story D Transcript of Nayirah's Performance at the HRC E Generic Components of George H. W. Bush's Incubator Allegations F Featured News Analysts and News Broadcasts G Incentives for Recontextualizing Pro-war and Pro-government Claims H Analysis of Speech Act Verbs I Recurring Themes in News Analyst Discourse J Themes Repeated by Analysts and Administration Officials K Reports About Aluminum Tubes in Classified Documents and Public Discourse Notes Bibliography Index.