ITN is carrying Iraqi propaganda and the public is being deceived.

Iraqi propaganda has it that America is aiming its missiles and bombs at civilians.

The only factor keeping Pentagon propaganda different from Iraqi propaganda is a corps of reporters willing and able to get - and tell - the real story.

But by saying it on Iraqi television, he allowed himself to be used for Iraqi propaganda, and wore out his welcome with most American viewers.

Thus, Mr. Bush's political defeat came as a deep shock to many in this region, a fact that Iraqi propaganda has not tired of emphasizing.

Mr. Zakhem dismissed the letter as "Iraqi propaganda."

I was up to my eyeballs in Iraqi propaganda and I didn't want to scare the readers into thinking I couldn't be trusted.

Another hope, they say, is that American press coverage will serve as a foil to Iraqi propaganda or distorted reportage from less objective news outlets in the Middle East.

For years, Iraq has said that a million people died in the war - almost certainly a huge exaggeration, but a staple of Iraqi propaganda.

Thus Iraqi propaganda insistently invokes "history" to justify the gobbling up of Kuwait.