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“Bush lied, people died.”

That’s the liberal catch-phrase. We’ve all heard it, and then some.

As the saying goes, if something is repeated often enough, people believe it.

But what’s the truth?
Did WMDs exist in Iraq?

• 1.77 metric tons of enriched uranium
• 1,500 gallons of chemical weapons agents
• Chemical warheads containing cyclosarin (a nerve agent five times more deadly than sarin gas)
• Over 1,000 radioactive materials in powdered form meant for dispersal over populated areas

This is only a PARTIAL LIST of the horrific weapons verified to have been recovered in Iraq to date. Yet, Americans overwhelmingly believe U.S. and coalition forces found NO weapons of mass destruction.

The question is… WHY do they believe this lie?

One of the most powerful weapons of our time… the media’s “disinformation.”

It’s a weapon that is used on all of us over and over every day of our lives. You know this now, since you have already read a chapter of Disinformation, by Richard Miniter. But there is more, much more.

Have you heard that Osama bin Laden is on kidney dialysis? I’ll bet you have. Much of the Western media report bin Laden’s presumed affliction as a matter of fact — and most Americans believe it. But…

…it’s just not true.

Now, you may well be thinking: “Why would the news media want to make me believe that Osama bin Laden is a very sick and perhaps dying man?” Well, here’s why…

The news media are — overwhelmingly — against the Iraq War. The image of an aged, 6-foot, 8-inch Arab limping from cave to cave, trailing a camel loaded down with dialysis equipment — eluding George W. Bush and the most powerful military in the world — appeals to them enormously.

And so the myth lives on — for SEVEN YEARS now! — long past the normal life expectancy of patients hooked up to dialysis in the best hospitals, let alone the freezing, rugged mountains of the Afghan-Pakistani border.

There is a name for this phenomenon — disinformation.

The term refers to the deliberate dissemination of FALSE information (and the intentional omission of TRUE information) for the purpose of confusing rivals or influencing public opinion.

Indeed, the false conclusion that “Bush lied, there were no WMDs in Iraq,” is the main supporting claim of the anti-war Left. Without it, the movement collapses.

Read more about Disinformation.

Exposing the MSM’s biases and fabrications is no easy job. We deal with here every day.

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