It would be far more accurate to refer to the "lame stream media" as the "confirmed liars and presstitutes in the lying stream media"...
who, mindlessly parroting the lies of the Cheney/Bush crime cabal,  claimed that:
- Saddam was responsible for 9/11, and that he had WMD ...
which led to the illegal invasion and destruction of Iraq, and the murder of nearly 1,500,000 innocent Iraqis and the death of over 10,000 American soldiers, see https://www.antiwar.com/casualties/ ,
- that Afghanistan had supported Osama Bin Laden in his alleged attack on the USA on 9/11, therefore justifying the US invasion and destruction of Afghanistan, murdering nearly 200,000 innocent Afghans to-date and another nearly 200,000 seriously injured, see https://news.brown.edu/articles/2016/08/costs-war,
- and many, many more blatant lies. Google
"Ten Appalling Lies We Were Told About Iraq" 
"It was a systematic campaign to frighten the hell out of us about the threat of Hussein, and almost none of it was true"