Powell behind the scenes was calling all his journalist contacts to tell them the war was going to be a disaster. But when he came face to face with Bush -- he hopped on board.
The insiders knew that Cheney was using his security contacts to push misleading information -- the other agencies were calling bullshit but eventually he pushed it through. All that stuff about Saddam's 911 connection and Yellow-cake uranium.
There is no way you could have thought as a reasonable person there was a connection between Saddam and Osama Bin Laden. The only reason a lot of people believed that is because the news (particularly fox) was blatantly lying about it. Those in power don't have that excuse.
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