NP just Ukrainians.

[Thomas Eckhardt]

I take the point that it was not considered a "conspiracy theory" back
then. You may be right about that.

Am 18.02.2022 um 21:14 schrieb Mark Kohut:
>   Not the way I remember it....it was open to grassroots public response
> and disputation.
> That the Bush administration lied and deceived about "the weapons of
> mass destruction" was proclaimed, speculated on by /many/ overtly, even in
> the mainstream media. Certainly in the correct right off-Broadway media,
> so to speak.  (Not the NYT, as Joseph and you will tell you me and as I
> know since I read the NYT religiously. I did not read other major US
> newspapers regularly then, but some mags)
>   Proof was demanded---but not produced. The lie hardly had time to be a
> "conspiracy theory" given the normal meaning of
> that phrase, which you are using virtually as a metaphor or as another
> word for outright lie. Revealing that lie started immediately since
> the possibility was believed by many.