Write 8 pages with APA style on The Contrast of the Persian Gulf War of 1991 with The Iraq War of 2003 with Special Reference to the Rhetoric Used.

Write 8 pages with APA style on The Contrast of the Persian Gulf War of 1991 with The Iraq War of 2003 with Special Reference to the Rhetoric Used. George Bush’s speeches were also engineered to keep the morale of the people high, in the tradition of past war leaders of the world (Churchill, for instance)In this war rhetoric, the image of the American soldier was glorified. The soldier was a savior and a friend. In the First Gulf War of 1991, George Bush, Sr. had done the same thing. He depicted through his speeches, the perfect image of an American soldier. Our soldiers, he said, are “some of the finest men and women of the United State of America” who “leave their spouses and their children, to serve on the front line halfway around the world. They remind us who keeps America strong: they do.” (Bush). He continues, “in the face of danger, they are brave. they are well-trained, and dedicated” (Bush) He mentions that they are willing to sacrifice their lives and their time to be with their families to fight for peace for the whole world (!)

There is deceptiveness, conscious, or unconscious, in a speech of this nature. It is implied that peace is brought about through war — a debatable statement. There is also an implication that those who fight are there, by their own free will. “There was an American soldier who said to an Iraqi soldier: ‘it’s okay, you are all right, you are all right’. . . Let us always be caring and good and generous in all we do” (Bush) The image is sought to be created as if the American soldiers have gone to have a party in Iraq. It needs a vigilant media to talk of an Abu-Ghraib or a Guantanamo Bay. Bush’s American soldier is the perfect gentleman (something like the British image of their ‘bobby’— the gentle policeman — who nevertheless shot an innocent Brazilian immigrant on mere suspicion that he was responsible for the London train station bombings!)

Bush’s speeches are cleverly done and achieve the purpose they want. In that sense, they are masterpieces of their own genre of political writing. However, they seem to fall on the border of fact and fiction.