If the media lied to us about Iraq, why is everyone again now believing everything they say about Iran?
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The media didn't lie to is about Iraq. That was the present Administration. They manipulated the media to get what they wanted. Especially in the aftermath of 9/11. The U.S. Media reported that there were thousands of people in the square when Saddam's statue was pulled down. But if you look at other media sources, it was only a couple of hundred that had been bused in from Jordan. \n\nThere are too many intel sources this time around for us to ignore Iran. Something a lot of us were clammering about before we inveded Iraq. I've worked closely with the intel community and have several friends that got out of the service because this administration "cooked" intel until it met there purposes. We knew that we were going to invade Iraq a couple days after 9/11. We didn't get requests for any information about Afghanistan until about 10 later. \n\nDon't blame the media. Blame the Bush administration.\n\nThe WMD case was weak at best. There was never any proof that anything got shipped to Syria. We were watching for that. So again, another lie. The supposed mobile WMD labs turned out to be nothing more than hydrogen pumps for weather balloons.
569263
Because the Republican Spin machine has helped convince people that liberals are bad, Iraq was going to attack us, the media is biased, and any number of fictions that people are too lazy to find out aren't true.
334126
When people start using their minds and stop believing every single thing that the media keeps on churning out. \nto this day the media is still calling it a war. Example:Headline \nThe War in Iraq: \nToday a roadside bomb killed five people and injured three. For the Media the opening headline just has to be the war in Iraq. It never was a war. \nif it had of been the coalition forces would have all been home by now. \nand Iraq would have been dust.\nThe sooner Other Muslim countries stop sending the Terrorist's into Iraq the Sooner all the coalition forces can come home.\nI mean was i the only one who saw all those Iraqi People Helping the US forces pull down Saddam's statue. \nor was it a mirage. \nThis is my own opinion.
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I hear so many stories I no longer know what to believe. \nWMD\n\nOIL\n\nFree people from a dictator.\n\nThe one thing I don't understand is why our government would want to remove a Sunni dominated government that kept the Shiites of Iran in check. Now there will be a Shiite dominated government in Iraq that will be more cooperative with the Shiites of Iran and if you look at a world map you will see that a Sunni dominated Iraq acted as  a buffer zone between Iran and Saudi Arabia which is the only Arab country friendly to the US. When the Shiites take control of Iraq, they will set their eyes on Saudi Arabia. You can see from the map that Iraq has a very long border with Saudi Arabia.  That is the one aspect that to me makes the least sense...
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We need the journalists there to tell us what's really going on, but the media organisations that employ them sanitise or propagandise their reports to keep the American public onside. Tragically yesterday, two journalists gave us the real, uncensored story in the hardest way.\n\nIraq is a mess and (as the vastly experienced Martin Bell says) it is not going to get better. The dominoes are falling just like they did in Indochina - Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan. Soon Saudi Arabia will fall to the fundamentalists and maybe Syria and Jordan will follow, caught up in this awful mess of America's own making (just like Vietnam). \n\nAll Middle Eastern oil supplies will soon be under Iran's control. America caused this by trying to bully proud peoples into the American way (just like in Vietnam).  \n\nWhen will America learn that heavy handed military intervention always ends like this - with an enraged and driven population determined against all odds to throw out the evil invader (as they see it).\n\nThis is Vietnam all over again. Different reason (oil), different excuse (WMD), different enemy, but the same inevitable slide into the chaos of another war that will humiliate America once again.\n\nGet out as cleanly as possible and leave these people alone. Let them live as they want to live and pay them what they want for THEIR oil. At the same time, start to find ways to end the Western dependance on the black stuff.
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NO!!if any of what bush told us before we invaded iraq was true then maybe i could condone being there???? but every single thing was a lie and was blamed on false or poor intelligence??? bull****!i am a retired naval officer from the first gulf war and i'll tell you like i told everyone from the start!! BUSH LIED!!!!!!! now he refuses to admit any wrong doing and our troops will continue to be killed for NOTHING!!! THE WHOLE THING WAS A SHAM TO START WITH!! every other country in the world knew that from the start. most americans followed blindly into a ideological, useless war that will only result in dead soldiers and trillions of our tax dollars spent to support a terrorist nation that WILL have another saddam running it within 5 years!! JUST WATCH AND LEARN PEOPLE!I'VE BEEN THERE!!!!!!!!
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There is little outrage due to the big lie.  Whatever the case,you can bet we are misinformed.  We follow our leader's story, trusting them to tell us the truth, a big mistake, and then back him up at crunch time. Fascism thrives on ignorance, complacency,  and trust, until it is too late to change course.  Iraq is a good example.  We were worked up because of 9/11, we wanted justice for the attack, so we went into Afghanistan.  Somehow we also ended up in Iraq!  The big boys who run things, sip on their Napoleon Brandy and  cigars, while the rest of us are always trying to catch up.  It is always too late if we do,  after the violence has been done.  Then we are left to offer lame arguments for why it was all such a good idea in the first place.
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Iran is being threatened by the US after we attack Iraq.  In order to protect itself, it is seeking for defense in nuclear weapon.  If it does not get nuclear help, US will find other reason to attack Iran.  Maybe another Weapon of Mass Destruction, and after we conquer Iran, we will make a public speech stating that we got the wrong information from UK again.
901846
well you may be right. The problem with the minds of most in the USA is that they only believe what they want to believe. They will swear it is raining when there is not a drop of rain and the sun is out. They just don't like being made out as fools. They sometimes prefer to believe a lie rather than to face the truth. \nBut on with your question, the Iraqis will never allow the US to control their oil and neither will Iran. In fact, now that the entire Middle East knows and understands the modus operandi of the US, they have no use for us except that we continue to buy their oil. A few years back while the US was in the full throes of war with Iraq, I predicted that Iran as well as Saudi Arabia and Syria would one day join hands as a solidified conglomerate of Middle Eastern power. This is happening, slowly but surely. Soon enough we will also see even Lebanon joining as well as Kuwait and Jordan. Then will come Pakistan and Afghanistan.We had no viable plan for Iraq, and it is too late to stop this oncoming Middle Eastern power base.\nOh and yes, Iran has been chanting "death to America" for several years now...but what you don't seem to realize is that other middle eastern countries have been THINKING the same thought for several years also.\nWill the U.S. invade and wage war against Iran?\nIt remains to be seen, but we should hope not. Doing so at least now in this decade would mean a world war. And it would mean the end for Israel.\nSo no. Not a viable plan. Not now.  Now five years from now.
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You know.... this whole WMD debate is really just flat silly.  We KNOW they had WMD's for two very obvous reasons.  \n\n1)  He used them to gas hundreds of Kurds in '88.  He killed hundred of people!!  It's not propaganda, it's not right wing rhetoric, it's not some strange fruit cakes unsubstantiated editorial..  It's a fact!!\n\n2)  The other reason we know, though a little less welcome in the media is that WE SOLD THEM TO IRAQ!!  Durring the Iran Iraq war, we backed Saddam.  Makes sense after Iran overran our embassy and held captive our diplomats back in '79 for us to back their oposition.  The enemy of our enemy is our friend kind of thing.  Just as we trained and equiped Afgani "freedom fighters" durring the soviet invation, we trained and equiped Iraq durring the Iran Iraq war.  We know they had WMD's then, because we have the reciepts.  It's a plain, unwelcome fact.  Made sense at the time, but there it is.  \n\nClinton may or may not have had data on WMD's in Iraq in '98, but I really don't see how it matters, they were there.  The WMD's are most likely either burried in the desert, or in Seria now.
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The only comments by the US that are relevant to Iran is, it will not allow Iran to be a Nuclear power.  IT has stated, as has the European countries in the UN, that it believes that Iran is seeking to become a Nuclear power.  If the US is a liar on that basis, then so are the European powers.  The consensus is, that Iran is not being truthful about it's intentions relative to nuclear power.  I agree with that consensus!
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It's because people believe the liberal media's antiwar message that they have been putting out since 911 to sway public oppinion against the war.  Add in a dose of several well put together, but poorly researched conspiracy theories and you get a reciepe that makes bleeding hearts and peaceniks think that the US Government is conspiring against them.  \n\nThanks for doing your part in helping to spread the truth.  You are a true American.  \n\nAnd if you have not seen this yet check it out\nhttp://www.iraqitruthproject.com/
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The news media wields far less power than they (or we) think. They thought if they told us we hate Bush enough, we might start to believe it. They had Bush trounced in the last election.\nIt turns out their version of the truth is far from it. I think you'll find Bush has a lot more support today than the media would like you to believe.
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Some of us with brains always knew Saddam had WMD's...only a liberal bonehead would of ever believed otherwise.\n\nHmmm guess now they will have to think up some other b.s. to throw around as their idea of what a fact is lol
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He didn't fool all of us, but, yes, as a country, we were duped by the great liar.\n\n\nAs you can see from a number of these answers, he's still fooling people.  It is amazing there is anybody left that still links 9/11 and Iraq.
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no. sorry. everyone is stupid & easy to fool into believing lies. all theyve done is post some news stories that iran is bad & the peple are crazy. everyone in usa believes it & are dumb enough to follow allong like cattle. theres a saying, 'those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocoties'. im sorry.\nhttp://scotthortonshow.com/\nhttp://thestressblog.com\nhttp://www.kaos959.com\nhttp://www.antiwar.com\nmoney, http://www.philipdru.com/griffin_stream.html\neducation, \nhttp://www.philipdru.com/taylor_stream.html\nhttp://www.philipdru.com/gatto_stream.html\nww1 wilson,\nhttp://weekendinterviewshow.com/InterviewDisplay.aspx?i=88\nww2 http://www.philipdru.com/stinnett_stream.html\nnam http://www.weekendinterviewshow.com/InterviewDisplay.aspx?i=108\nbush & clinton http://www.philipdru.com/triplett_stream.html\nisrael \nhttp://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8730\nhttp://www.philipdru.com/webb_stream.html\niran http://www.weekendinterviewshow.com/InterviewDisplay.aspx?i=131\ngovernment explained simply,\nhttp://weekendinterviewshow.com/InterviewDisplay.aspx?i=98
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That was only the first reason for going to war.  Then it was to remove Saddam, then it was to liberate Iraq, and then it was to spread democracy in the middle east.  He keeps changing the reasons to look like he knew what he was doing all along.  And he did all this because he can.  People will follow him and believe him no matter what.  Why should he tell the truth when people keep believing his lies.  There are still lots of people who will say that we did find WMDs.  People don't realize there are differences between the WMDs in the 80s, the WMDs during Clinton, and the WMDs we went to war for.