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Examples include:
*The [[Y2K]] panic, in which outrageous claims were made regardng the vulnerability of [[infrastructure]] to a [[cyber threat]] unintentionally created by programs taking shortcuts - proven false by the absolute lack of any incident traceable in January 2000 to any system that had not been altered, although there were very many of these, some identical to those that had been heavily modified. After [[September 11, 2001]] these wasteful changes to code and over-spendig spending on backup systems was justified in a totally new way - as a wise precautionary measure against [[terrorist attack]].
*The [[coalition invasion of Iraq]] originally publicly 'motivated by' presence of [[weapons of mass destruction]] which were never found. The post-facto popular uprisings against both the [[Bath Party]] regime of Saddam Hussein and the [[US forces occupying Iraq]] became the new 'proof of a strong will for [[democracy]]' and a new means of justifing the action.
