Americans Still Believe Bush's War Propaganda

This weekend is the second anniversary of the U.S. attack on Iraq. The latest ABC News and Washington Post poll of public opinion shows that most Americans still believe, incorrectly of course, that Saddam's Iraq supported the 9/11 terrorists and had weapons of mass destruction. Interestingly, the poll's own analysis tries to downplay the significance of its findings, saying, "Most Americans favored overthrowing Saddam years earlier, long before al Qaeda became broadly known." Oh really? As we document in Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq, the war could never have been sold to the American people had ABC, the Washington Post, and the rest of the mainstream media done their job of exposing the false claims of the Bush administration. Instead, they echoed those claims and censored and ignored critics of the war.