Many (far) right adherents still claim the news media is mostly liberal. There was a time when that was partly true in the US, but look who owns this media the last 15+ years. A huge corporation is anything but liberal, and is beholden to profit making for its stockholders, to say nothing of their intimate ties to the government, including the CIA. Several links on the left deal with this, among them FAIR (Fairness in News and Reporting.

Contrary to recent wisdom, public support for the Iraq war hasn't dropped -- that is, the version that the neocons shilled is still popular.

There's a sizeable plurality of the American public that will never accept a war based on our foreign policy elites' ideological preferences or imperial ambitions. Most aren't pacifists -- that's a straw man -- but they believe war should be an action of absolute last resort.

t's a predictable factor, and one that the hawks that got us into Iraq should have taken into account when they formed their policy. They knew that they could sell the war using modern public relations techniques, a friendly media and the specter of 9/11. But there's a limit to how long you can spin the facts on the ground. Early public support was for the conflict they promised us, not the one we got.

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