Carnegie Group Says Bush Made Wrong Claims on WMD: "The report concludes that 'administration officials systematically misrepresented the threat from Iraq's WMD and ballistic missile programs'. "

The key word here is "systematically." Clearly, this was no accident. Information has become a weapon of war, as this story makes clear.

"In the past, propaganda involved managing the media. Information dominance, by contrast, sees little distinction between command and control systems, propaganda and journalism. They are all types of "weaponized information" to be deployed. As strategic expert Colonel Kenneth Allard noted, the 2003 attack on Iraq "will be remembered as a conflict in which information fully took its place as a weapon of war.

... information operations would attempt to "disrupt, corrupt or usurp" adversarial decision-making. "In other words," notes retired US army colonel Sam Gardiner, "we will even go after friends if they are against what we are doing or want to do." "

The question in my mind is: When the information being provided to US citizens is weaponized, surely they are waging war on us, the people they are meant to be protecting?
- posted by geoff @ #