31 Mar, 2013
The War in Iraq Ten Years Later – How Cheerleader Journalism Fueled the Fire
We can imagine that George Bush, Dick Cheney, Tony Blair and the other masterminds behind the Iraq war and occupation have lost little sleep over the destruction they’ve wrought. The narcissism and sociopathic personalities they share seem, sadly, to be all too common among the political and military leaders around the world, in Bush’s America no less than Saddam’s Iraq.
But what of the enablers and errand-boys and girls of the Iraq war – the journalists who so eagerly parroted the lies and abdicated their responsibility to act as a check on governments’ propensity to resort to violence and war without legitimate justification. Not surprisingly, with the invasion’s 10th anniversary, those who either openly supported the invasion or did nothing to put the arguments for it to the test, are attempting to rewrite history to expiate their guilt in making the invasion possible.
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