At the beginning of the Iraq war only 38 percent of Americans said the war was justified even if Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction. When no such weapons were found after the war, 58 percent of Americans then supported the war. Myers explains this revision of people's memories of the government's rationale for going to war as an example of

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This phenomenon is an example of cognitive dissonance, as people changed their attitudes about the war to reduce the discomfort caused by the inconsistency between their previous beliefs and the lack of evidence for the government's rationale for the war.

At the Beginning of the Iraq War Only 38 Percent