The First Iraq War Was Also Sold to the Public Based on a Pack of Lies
Polls suggest that Americans tend to differentiate between our good war in Iraq Operation Desert Storm, launched by George HW Bush in 1990 and the mistake his son made in 2003.
Across the ideological spectrum, theres broad agreement that the first Gulf War was worth fighting. The opposite is true of the 2003 invasion, and a big reason for those divergent views was captured in a 2013 CNN poll that found that a majority of Americans (54%) say that prior to the start of the war the administration of George W. Bush deliberately misled the U.S. public about whether Baghdad had weapons of mass destruction.
But as the usual suspects come out of the woodwork to urge the US to once again commit troops to Iraq, its important to recall that the first Gulf War was sold to the public on a pack of lies that were just as egregious as those told by the second Bush administration 12 years later.
https://billmoyers.com/2014/06/27/the-first-iraq-war-was-also-sold-to-the-public-based-on-a-pack-of-lies/