Upstate NY:

So much of European media did great exposes on the US invasion of Iraq the last 8 years precisely because their gov't was opposed to it.

I don't think the British press was blind to what was happening in Iraq. Apart from Robert Fisk in The Independent you had decent coverage in The Guardian and in other, more right-wing, papers.

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