Excerpt: I wish a researcher would list who and when and what each war critic wrote at that time, to answer all those who now say, "Everyone worldwide thought there were WMDs." This assertion is simply blatantly false--"everyone" did not believe that. A multitude of spot-on pre-war critics were writing frantically, in both U.S. and international periodicals and newspapers, offering scholarly, articulate, and perfectly reasonable rationales against WMDs and invasion, although by then, most Americans--including, unfortunately, many in government leadership roles--were so terrified by the steady drumbeat of pro-war, pro-fear propaganda that their minds were made up, and they never even bothered to read about or consider such warnings....   more »