Introduction Mark Twain once said, “A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can put its shoes on.” In 2003, that lie was Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. It metastasized not through fringe voices, but through the mainstream press itself — and it permanently reshaped America’s relationship with truth, power, and … Continue reading Poisoned Wells: How the Iraq War (2003), Propaganda, and Blind Tradition Rewired the American Mind (2025) (Revisiting the Iraq War 2003)