>But if you think the democratic and totalitarian governments are equally trustworthy you're deluding yourself.
The totalitarian Saddam Hussein said he didn't have any weapons of mass destruction, which was true, and the democratic government of the United States said he did, which was false.
A million people died because people decided to trust a democracy more than they trusted a totalitarian government. Because they trusted the largest media outlets of that democracy who all helped sell the governments lies. Because that level of analysis simply isn't good enough.
If people at the time had only listened to uninvolved third parties, nobody would have died, as they were pointing out the flimsiness of the democracies case.
The totalitarian Saddam Hussein said he didn't have any weapons of mass destruction, which was true, and the democratic government of the United States said he did, which was false.
A million people died because people decided to trust a democracy more than they trusted a totalitarian government. Because they trusted the largest media outlets of that democracy who all helped sell the governments lies. Because that level of analysis simply isn't good enough.
If people at the time had only listened to uninvolved third parties, nobody would have died, as they were pointing out the flimsiness of the democracies case.