Our government, with the media’s help, have lied to gain the citizens’ support for practically every war in the last 120 years. The sinking of the Maine, babies on bayonets, the Gulf of Tonkin, Nayirah and the babies being pulled out of incubators in Kuwait, weapons of mass destruction, etc. Even the “official” narrative around the sinking of the Lusitania is a half truth, at best.
You and I don’t want to send our kids to war psychopaths are willing to send your kids to war to accomplish their own purposes, whether those purposes are financial or political. The fact that 60 years ago, a group of people were willing to consider blowing an airliner out of the sky to start a war with Cuba isn’t surprising, and the same type of people are still in the same positions today.