Disinformation

by Richard Miniter

Turn on the TV at any given moment, and you're likely to see some earnest media "expert" telling you confidently that America faces a serious threat from suitcase nukes, that Al-Qaeda terrorists are streaming across the Mexican border, that there was no link between Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, and that Iraq is another Vietnam. There's just one problem with all this: none of it is true. Richard Miniter explains why these and other popular media factoids and urban legends are not only wrong, but severely damaging to our war effort, in Disinformation: The 22 Media Myths That Undermine the War on Terror.

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• Three common myths about the Bush Administration that have been spread widely by Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11

• The 9/11 hijackers used box-cutters to take control of the four planes they hijacked, right? Wrong -- and how this popular myth got started

• Did the U.S. fund the Taliban in the 1980s? It would have been tough, since the Taliban wasn't even formed until 1995

• How the only source for the widespread idea that Osama bin Laden is on dialysis and is slowly dying of kidney failure has backed away from his story

• Striking evidence that Osama bin Laden is not a reclusive multi-millionaire who can finance his terror campaign out of his own pocket -- and that Al-Qaeda is in fact perennially short of cash

• What Osama bin Laden himself has said about the Left's pet charge that he was trained by American officials in Afghanistan -- plus six sources that show that he never had any relationship with the CIA or any other U.S. agency

• The deadly lesson that the Iranian revolution taught to bin Laden and his comrades-in-arms

• How bin Laden declared war on America five separate times and pursued his jihad war against the United States throughout the 1990s -- contrary to liberal media claims that no one had heard of him before 9/11

• Bush knew? No -- as is clear from this close examination of the CIA memo that supposedly warned him about possible hijackings before 9/11

• Were 4,000 Jews really absent from their jobs at the World Trade Center on 9/11? The truth about this hateful anti-Semitic canard

• Since the September 11 attacks, the world is more dangerous for Americans than ever before, right? Wrong

• Are U.S. troops in Iraq to make the world safe for Halliburton? No -- in fact, Halliburton has not made a fortune in Iraq, and is even trying to sell its division that runs Iraqi operations

• Why there is absolutely no viable parallel between America's presence in Iraq and the Vietnam War

• How the number of civilians killed by American troops in Iraq has been wildly inflated by the rabid leftists among the mainstream media and academic establishment

• A war for oil? Why the U.S. is not fighting one in Iraq or anywhere else

• No WMDs in Iraq? How the strength of the prewar intelligence on weapons of mass destruction was exaggerated -- but so is the postwar case against that same intelligence

• Clear, uncontested, proven links between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and Al Qaeda

• Saddam Hussein: a secular strongman with no connection to radical Islamic terror organizations? Not quite. His extensive record of cooperation with Islamic terrorist organizations

• Why everyone from George W. Bush to Al Gore agrees that poverty is a major cause, if not the cause, of terrorism -- everyone, that is, except the scholars who actually study terrorists

• Suitcase nukes? Relax: most of the information causing the fear over this has come from one Russian general who has changed his story many times

• Colonel Oliver North: did he really warn America about the threat of Osama bin Laden back in the 1980s?

• Did President Bush really say that Iraq was an "imminent threat" to America? What he really said -- and why it matters so much

• Four overwhelming reasons why racial profiling would fail to make us any safer against terrorists

• Borders out of control? How, as unlikely as it sounds, there are actually no known cases of Al Qaeda terrorists sneaking across the Mexican border

• Why so many people are so eager to believe these War on Terror myths, no matter how outlandish they are

• Five groups that are most likely to fall for these myths -- including liberals and antiwar crusaders

"Richard Miniter deploys the weapons of humor and fair-mindedness, and the hard-won experience of many tight corners of the globe, to dispel the fog of half-truth and propaganda that has been generated by pseudo-intellectuals and by the surreptitious sympathisers of the most vicious and reactionary movement of our time." -- Christopher Hitchens

"Richard Miniter is one of the most enterprising, best-traveled reporters covering the war on terror." --James Taranto, The Wall Street Journal

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The [first] reviewer has obviously not read this book, making them less qualified to revue than I am. Read the book, find out, unlike the [first] reviewer above the author at least tried to have some contact with the truth