When the writer I.F. Stone used to speak to journalism students, he said that the most important thing to know about being a reporter could be summed up in two words: "Governments lie." Particularly when they want to sell a war.

The U.S. government has been at war with Iraq for more than a decade, and the lies have been piling up ever since. But Washington’s war makers have kicked into high gear over the past few months--as George W. Bush and Co. try to sell us on another invasion of Iraq.

Here, Socialist Worker’s ANTHONY ARNOVE, editor of the South End Press book Iraq Under Siege--newly republished in an updated edition--exposes a decade’s worth of U.S. lies and propaganda.

More at : Exposing their lies october 25, 2002