We've created a generation of propaganda generators.

After 50 years of a Cold War and a decade of the War On TERROR there is no longer any need for the US government to put any effort into war agitprop.

That's the only way I can make sense of the impending war with Iran.

From the Guardian:

But while in the case of Iraq an attack was launched over weapons of mass destruction that didn't in fact exist, the US isn't even claiming that Iran is attempting to build a bomb. "Are they trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No," Panetta said bluntly last month. Israeli intelligence is said to be of the same view. Unlike Israel itself, which has had nuclear weapons for decades, it believes the Iranian leadership has taken no decision to go nuclear. [links removed]