Just as Fromkin shows with regard to Germany in 1914, the Bush administration manipulated US public opinion to support the Iraq War as a war on terror, even though Iraq had nothing to do with any terrorist attack against the US. The world was never fooled by the Bush administration's case, but most Americans were fooled, at least for a while.
和戴维·弗罗姆金所写的1914年的德国一样，布什政府把伊拉克战争描述为一场反恐战争--即使伊拉克与恐怖袭击美国毫无关系--以此来操纵美国公众舆论，博得公众的支持。世界没有被布什政府的谎言所愚弄，但大多数美国人民被愚弄了，至少在某一时期。