Government Specialty: Lying About War - BirminghamWatch

Government Specialty: Lying About War - BirminghamWatch

Christian Frei Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Iran was close to having a nuclear bomb. Or not. Either way, U.S. strikes obliterated those facilities. Or not. War and military actions of other sorts have always been ripe for exaggeration and blatant lying by U.S. governments, whether it’s in manufacturing a justification for a war or in misrepresenting a war’s degree of success. The deceit goes beyond the customary spinning and …