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With the luxury of hindsight, the Iraq invasion is an interesting subject to revisit. It's a fascinating case study in many things. Propaganda. The media collapsing around State dept. narratives. How dissent becomes heresy. And of course, using the worst tragedy in national history as the pretext for an illegitimate war.
For my part, I supported the war. I even hated the Dixie Chicks. I wasn't old enough or smart enough to know any better, my parents were nominally Republican, and I wanted to believe it was for a good reason. It was unthinkable to me that people would just tell lies to draw the country into war. That there could be a financial incentive or ulterior motive for going to war.
It's important to remember how pervasive it all was. How, when the administration wanted another war, it was being sold to us everywhere we looked. What do we think after everything? How do we reflect on it fifteen years later?
Jeremy Scahill: A Brief History of U.S. Intervention in Iraq Over the Past Half Century
Bill Moyers: Buying the War
Inside The Propaganda War Waged Over The Iraq Invasion
For my part, I supported the war. I even hated the Dixie Chicks. I wasn't old enough or smart enough to know any better, my parents were nominally Republican, and I wanted to believe it was for a good reason. It was unthinkable to me that people would just tell lies to draw the country into war. That there could be a financial incentive or ulterior motive for going to war.
It's important to remember how pervasive it all was. How, when the administration wanted another war, it was being sold to us everywhere we looked. What do we think after everything? How do we reflect on it fifteen years later?
Jeremy Scahill: A Brief History of U.S. Intervention in Iraq Over the Past Half Century
Bill Moyers: Buying the War
Inside The Propaganda War Waged Over The Iraq Invasion
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