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===War coverage=== AIM was critical of media reports about the harmful effects of [[Agent Orange]], a military herbicide with adverse health effects for humans, in the [[Vietnam War]].<ref name=":0" /> AIM blamed the U.S. media for the loss in the Vietnam War.<ref name=":0" /> AIM criticized the 1983 [[PBS]] documentary series ''Vietnam: A Television History'' as being pro-communist. According to ''[[The New York Times]]'', one of AIM's greatest accomplishments was the documentary, ''Television's Vietnam: The Real Story'' in response to the PBS series.<ref name="Kaufman"/><ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/01/22/PBS-accused-of-pro-communist-programming/2948506754000/|title=PBS accused of 'pro-communist' programming|work=United Press International|access-date=June 7, 2019}}</ref> AIM charged the alliance conducting the [[NATO bombing of Yugoslavia|NATO Kosovo intervention]] in 1999 with distorting the situation in Kosovo and lying about the number of civilian deaths in order to justify U.S. involvement in the conflict under the [[Presidency of Bill Clinton|Clinton administration]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Irvine |first1=Reed |last2=Kincaid |first2=Cliff |title=Deceit And Lies Over Kosovo |url=https://www.aim.org/media-monitor/deceit-and-lies-over-kosovo/ |website=aim.org |publisher=Accuracy in Media |date=November 24, 1999 |access-date=May 12, 2020 |archive-date=March 29, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220329010712/https://www.aim.org/media-monitor/deceit-and-lies-over-kosovo/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> AIM supported the Iraq War and accused the media of bias against the Iraq War in 2007,<ref name=":1" /> and alleged bias in mainstream media's coverage of the [[2012 Benghazi attack]].<ref name=":2" /> In 2008, AIM asserted "Waterboarding Is Not Torture" in a sub-heading. The article said that [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp|Guantanamo Bay]] detainees "are enjoying hotel living conditions" and that torture is what "left-wingers associate with anything that makes an accused terrorist uncomfortable".<ref name=":1" />
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