'This debacle of death and destruction was not only a profound error of policymaking; it was the result of a carefully executed crusade of disinformation and lies,' says DavidCornDC, criticizing the corporate media's complicity in the Iraq War.
the Center for Public Integrity, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit investigative journalism organization, Bush and top administration officials—including then-Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and Rice—"made at least 935 false statements in the two years following September 11, 2001, about the national security threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq."Those lies were dutifully repeated by most U.S.
"It should not be forgotten that this debacle of death and destruction was not only a profound error of policymaking; it was the result of a carefully executed crusade of disinformation and lies," David Corn, the Washington, D.C.
David Frum—Bush's lead writer who coined the term"Axis of Evil" to refer to Iraq, Iran, and North Korea—is"a well-paid and influential columnist for
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