IPOLITICS - Lawrence Martin | Mar 20, 2013 A writer, Peter Klein, put forward the notion the other day that had Twitter been around in 2003, it might have prevented the Iraq war. Intriguing thought. Unlikely, though. When the warmongers of the Bush administration started putting out the baloney about weapons of mass destruction we recall that most of the mainstream media (though not all of us) swallowed it whole.