Wanniski speculates (and it is also speculated in the book mentioned in his articles) that Israel is behind these US policy efforts. He claims that the powerful Israel-lobby in Congress--powerful may not be a strong enough word--is demanding that W. Bush not only completes what his dad failed to do in the Gulf War--get rid of Saddam--but is also demanding that Bush try to do what Iran (read: Israel) couldn't do in the 1980s--destroy Iraq.
So where does the media come in? By constantly prattling on about non-existent "fact" (Saddam gassed the Kurds), the media is setting up the American people to accept a new war vs. Iraq, to root for it, and, thus possibly, go against the real needs of the American people: more jobs, security and prosperity; less big government, less police state, and less sending off our boys and girls to serve as cannon fodder for a war which (like Afghanistan, never seems to look like its been won: have we gotten bin Laden?)could be more in the interests of a foreign power (Israel) than our own.
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