WTF Is It Now?!?

"War-team toadies"
From Dennis Hans' 'The disinformation age' - How George W. Bush and Colin Powell are lying America into an unnecessary war - and what honest journalists can do about it:

"Nothing [Saddam] says has been taken at face value since the 1980s, that golden decade when he was committing his worst human rights abuses with the blessing and support of Saint Colin of Powell and presidents Reagan and Bush - not to mention Reagan's special emissary to Baghdad, a chap named Donald Rumsfeld.

"There is a lying leader, a bit closer to home.... Not only does the leader lie, but so too do his top aides. And the news media, with rare exceptions, routinely pass along their lies as fact. The result is that the people of America are out of touch with the people of the world. Thus we're far more willing than any other populace to launch an unprovoked attack on Iraq. Whereas the German and French people - and the populations ruled by governments siding with Uncle Sam - are reasonably well-informed and overwhelmingly opposed, Americans are reasonably well-disinformed." - from SmirkingChimp.com.