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cyclonefence

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2. Media didn't lie about WMDs

Reply to still_one (Reply #1)

Wed Jan 18, 2017, 09:57 AM

Jan 2017

They reported what Colin Powell, among others, reported. But the media also covered the multiple congressional investigatory trips to Iraq which found no evidence of WMDs, as well as Hans Blix's reports. News contrary to the Bush line about WMDs was easy to find and prolific.

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