"March 19 marks the eighth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, a nation that had no weapons of mass destruction and was not involved in the 9/11 attacks. It was sold to the American public as a war to defend our nation and free the Iraqi people. U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz said our soldiers would be greeted as liberators and that Iraqi oil money would pay for the reconstruction. Vice President Dick Cheney said the military effort would take “weeks rather than months.” And Defense Secretary Assistant Ken Adelman predicted that “liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk.”
Eight years on, it’s time to look back at that “cakewalk.”"
Read it and weep
Scary: People Who Watch and Trust Fox News Will Surprise You By Ilyse Hogue
An excellent summary of the propaganda machine's biggest player.
Bill
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