Post by John Cole, balloon-juice's site owner.
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2013/09/17/long-overdue-3/
Good stuff about the way media will spin things.
Cole, by the way, served in the first Iraq war, and used to be very, very right-wing (which is when I first started reading him).
EDIT: This is not to say that I generally love the US's foreign policy, as I don't. But I think the military industrial complex is bigger than any one person, unfortunately.