Behind the paywall. So not sure of the details but It is amazing that so many of the biggest pushers for the Iraq war in the media are all still in positions of media influence.
A load of themout recently in the 20th anniversary with articles about how it was wrong, but it was also right. So fucking disgusting
That’s a very, very good piece. One of the few pieces I’ve read that acknowledges how much misinformation was floating about as well. There seems to be a current vogue for saying people knew there were no WMDs rather than analysing the difference between reckless belief and justified belief, no analysis of intelligence services, etc.
I wonder what things pushed today will be looked at in the future as con jobs
No doubt there’s just as much going on today and over the last few years.
Iraq is an example I always use when I see the lovely, well adjusted people of Reddit try and blame ordinary Russians for the current war. Public support for the war in Iraq was massive in America and Britain and based on literally nothing. This was in countries with free presses and where you’ll not be locked up or pushed out a window for wrongthink. Iraq was a fucking travesty that never should have happened
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Behind the paywall. So not sure of the details but It is amazing that so many of the biggest pushers for the Iraq war in the media are all still in positions of media influence.
A load of themout recently in the 20th anniversary with articles about how it was wrong, but it was also right. So fucking disgusting
That’s a very, very good piece. One of the few pieces I’ve read that acknowledges how much misinformation was floating about as well. There seems to be a current vogue for saying people knew there were no WMDs rather than analysing the difference between reckless belief and justified belief, no analysis of intelligence services, etc.
I wonder what things pushed today will be looked at in the future as con jobs
Fine Gael
Brexit
Trump
Syria
Libya
Palestine
They were complicit,
Never forget about that “Child Incubator” lies then we had Colin Powell lie to the UN(I remember watching that one myself)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony
No doubt there’s just as much going on today and over the last few years.
Iraq is an example I always use when I see the lovely, well adjusted people of Reddit try and blame ordinary Russians for the current war. Public support for the war in Iraq was massive in America and Britain and based on literally nothing. This was in countries with free presses and where you’ll not be locked up or pushed out a window for wrongthink. Iraq was a fucking travesty that never should have happened