Noam Chomsky wrote a remarkable book titled Manufacturing Consent about the need for propaganda in democratic societies. At the time, many intellectuals questioned his argument based on the unquestioningly and widely accepted norm that propaganda was something that undemocratic societies did in order to control the minds of the people. However, Chomsky provided an unmistakable and intellectually convincing argument, fact really, that since the speech in democratic societies is free and cannot be controlled, there is a need to control the minds of the people. Through propaganda. In undemocratic societies, either people do not have free speech or it doesn't matter to an unelected government what the people say. Therefore, there is no need to control their minds. Hence, the need for propaganda is much less, if any at all.

America has always employed sheer propaganda in order to achieve many political goals, especially foreign policy ones. Bush lied to his fellow Americans about the presence of WMDs in Iraq in........

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