Why did the media ignore Mitt Romney's lie about Iraq

Why did the media ignore Mitt Romney's lie about Iraq

A graphic accompanying a June 6 Washington Post article about the previous night's Republican presidential debate asserted that the "Gaffe of the Night" was committed by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who "incorrectly sa[id] [that] yesterday was Ronald Reagan's birthday." The graphic itself, however, contained a much more significant misstatement: former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's erroneous account of the events leading up to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Asked during the debate if it was "a mistake for us to invade Iraq," Romney replied, [W]e wouldn't be in the conflict we're in" if "Saddam Hussein had open[ed] up his country to IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] inspectors and they'd come in and they'd found that there were no weapons of mass destruction." In fact, Hussein did allow IAEA inspectors into Iraq before the invasion, and they "found no evidence or plausible indication of the revival of a nuclear weapons programme in Iraq." Saddam also allowed the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) into Iraq before the invasion, and its inspectors "did not find evidence of the continuation or resumption of programmes of weapons of mass destruction."