Robin Abcarian: The 20th anniversary of Iraq invasion also marks a colossal failure of the mainstream media
by Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times
Mar 21, 2023
3 minutes
Twenty years ago, President George W. Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq, toppling the despot Saddam Hussein and fomenting a kind of hell that Iraq is still grappling with today.
Twenty years ago, this country's mainstream media — with one notable exception — bought into phony Bush administration claims about Hussein's stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, helping cheerlead our nation into a conflict that ended the lives of thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. The war — along with criminally poor post-war planning on the part of Bush administration officials — also
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