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The Iraq debacle began in 2000 when the media actively promoted the twin myths that Gore was a "big, fat liar" and that Bush was a "uniter, not a divider."
When the press allowed Bush's lies to go unchallenged and Gore's truth's to be falsely labeled as lies, they set the stage for the disaster we're now in. Invading Iraq was on the agenda for the first meeting of Bush's National Security Council.
Our national media is still -- to this day -- indistinguishable from the old Soviet state-controlled press.
