It was Hussein tricking us, not our politicians tricking the public.
Because it disproved their belief that President Bush wanted war, most of the mainstream press refused to report that Saddam Hussein admitted (after his capture) that he had faked the memo about weapons of mass destruction that started the Iraq war. We had to find out about it on the History Channel.
[Many journalists] believe that President Bush falsified information to get us into the Iraq war. But they deliberately ignore two facts that refute this belief:
Saddam Hussein had admitted on TV that he was sending financial support to Al-Qaida months before the invasion began. The page author told a friend we were going to war in Iraq after hearing this.
When he was captured, Saddam Hussein admitted that he made the fake memos about weapons of mass destruction.
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The media constantly repeat the lie that says that President Bush wanted to start a war, so he lied about the weapons of mass destruction.
But we have known since Saddam Hussein was captured that Saddam caused the war. He did two things:
- He said on the 60 Minutes interview that he was going to "continue to provide financial support for Al Qaida."
- He faked a memo about weapons of mass destruction (WMD) to catch a double agent. He caught the double agent, but not before the memo was leaked by that agent to US Intelligence. This explains how President Bush knew where to look for the WMD, and why he was so mad when the troops didn't find the weapons.
When he was captured, Saddam admitted that he created that memo, blaming it for causing the war.
The History Channel revealed this information shortly after Saddam was captured, and occasionally plays that footage again. But the mainstream media never reported this beyond the initial day Saddam was captured, and refuses to stop lying about President Bush starting the war. This shows a clear bias on the part of the news media as a whole.