By Leo Hohmann – Leo’s Mewsletter
It’s starting to feel a lot like the summer of 2003. You can feel it in the air. The war drums are beating. The pressure building.
For those of you old enough to remember, the U.S. government in the runup to the Iraq war used politicians, the media and the evangelical community to spread fear and loathing of the Saddam Hussein regime. Our government was in a mad dash to war and wars are always accompanied with massive disinformation campaigns. Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and was ready to use them at any moment, we were told. Babies were being slaughtered and all kinds of sensational stories were being spread by the media, both mainstream and alternative. Anyone who stood in their way with uncomfortable questions was deemed unpatriotic and drowned out by the raging noise of pro-war hysteria.