The industry front group Sport Utility Vehicle Owners of America is striking back at a Christian-sponsored anti-SUV campaign that asked "What Would Jesus Drive?" The Holland (MI) Sentinel reports that SUVOA, which has several hundred members, has created a $17,000 ad that asks, "What Would Jesus (Rivera) Drive?" According to the ad, Rivera drives an SUV because it gets him through the snow in winter, and his wife likes it because she can easily transport their grandchildren.

"That the Bush administration misled the public is quite clear; what has
been less clear is that it also misled the military," William O'Rourke writes for the Chicago Sun-Times. "If, all along, the
cause and the aims of the war had been stated honestly, the military
would have prepared for the war they found: one where the regime was
toppled quickly and the population did more lasting damage to the
country's institutions and infrastructure than our forces did."

What do Osama Bin Laden, the Detroit auto industry and the White House have in common? They all use fear to manipulate the public. The Guardian focuses on the propaganda uses of fear in an excerpt from Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq, the upcoming new book by PR Watch editors Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber.