lithub.com/how-the-american-media-manipulated-the-public-to-support-war-in-iraq How the American Media Manipulated the Public to Support War in Iraq
Before a single bomb fell on Iraq, Colin Powell's "mobile weapons labs" and Netanyahu's WMD warnings to Congress went largely unchallenged by the press. No weapons were ever found; roughly 4,500 U.S. troops, 179 British soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died anyway.
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