Within weeks of the US invasion of Iraq in March 2003, it became clear that the claim that Saddam Hussein's had developed weapons of mass destruction -- the critical justification of the war -- was a lie that had been concocted by the Bush administration. 1/ #Propaganda 
The #NYTimes, which had propagated the WMD lies, manufactured, ex post facto, another justification for the war. On April 25, 2003, it published a front page photo of a skull, which it claimed was of a political prisoner murdered by the Iraqi regime. 2/
Two days later, on April 27, Thomas L. Friedman wrote a column titled, "The Meaning of a Skull." He claimed that the discovery of the skull rendered the issue of WMDs irrelevant. 3/
"As far as I'm concerned," Friedman declared, "we do not need to find any weapons of mass destruction to justify this war. That skull, and the thousands more that will be unearthed, are enough for me. 4/
"Mr. Bush doesn't owe the world any explanation for missing chemical weapons (even if it turns out the White House hyped the issue)." The apologist for Bush's criminal invasion continued: 5/
"Whether you were for or against this war, whether you preferred that the war be done with the U.N.'s approval or without it you have to feel good that right has triumphed over wrong. 6/
"America did the right thing here. It toppled one of the most evil regimes on the face of the earth, and I don't think we know even a fraction of how deep the evil went. ..So why isn't everyone celebrating this triumph?" 7/
This article is just one example of the countless columns in which Friedman and his colleagues have peddled disinformation and lies in the interest of US foreign policy. No, in the midst of another war propaganda campaign, this record should be kept in mind. 8/8
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