On this day in 2003, President George W. Bush addresses the nation via live television and announces that Operation Iraqi Freedom has begun. Bush authorized the mission to rid Iraq of tyrannical dictator Saddam Hussein and eliminate Hussein's ability to develop weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Operation Iraqi Freedom illustrated the Bush administration's pledge to use unilateral, pre-emptive strikes if necessary against nations believed dangerous to American national security. Read More
Is it better to think that they were just stupid and deceitful or that they were just deceitful. Anyway you look at it they lied to us and played upon our fears to do what they wanted to. But they didn't have a clue of the complexity of the situation or the actual effect of their actions on the Iraqi people! From The Raw Story:New evidence: CIA and MI6 were told before invasion that Iraq had no active WMD
Fresh evidence is revealed today about how MI6 and the CIA were told through secret channels by Saddam Hussein’s foreign minister and his head of intelligence that Iraq had no active weapons of mass destruction. Tony Blair told parliament before the war that intelligence showed Iraq’s nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons programme was “active”, “growing” and “up and running”. Continue Reading
Can you say? "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it".-George Santayana Truthdig:Robert Sheer: Dumb Wars, Now and Forever
It is a staple of our widely trumpeted Judeo-Christian heritage that the acknowledgment of sin is a prelude to redemption. So how is it that there is no palpable sense of soul searching associated with the 10th anniversary of a war based on officially concocted lies and a policy of torture? It is because the presumption of a unique American claim to an original and enduring innocence perseveres, no matter the death and destruction. Indeed, some of our most celebrated publicists defined moral deceit as virtue in justifying the Iraq War. “As far as I am concerned, we do not need to find any weapons of mass destruction to justify this war,” New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote in April 2003, when U.N. inspectors had clearly established that the proclaimed basis for invading Iraq was a lie. “Mr. Bush doesn’t owe the world any explanation for missing chemical weapons (even if it turns out that the White House hyped this issue).” Read More
One of the real tragedies of the war in Iraq! Addicting Info: Teeluck Sooknarine:The War Casualties Who Don’t Count – Over 7,000 Veteran Suicides A Year (VIDEO)
....The events of 9/11 which so far has cost more than 3,000 lives with the immediate attack and still counting with the cleanup crews, were used as a fictitious backdrop to facilitate the war which now directly increase the reported suicide rate to more than 7,000 veterans annually, who are stricken with PTSD. This is the rate that has finally been released by the Dept. of Veterans Affairs, this is also a suicide rate that I myself had published in my book ‘Shock and Awe on America’ (linked below) and in numerous articles over the last 5 years. It is a rate that had been concealed or largely ignored previously, but was so easy for myself and others to find – five years ago Complete Post
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From David Rovics: Operation Iraqi Liberation (O.I.L.)
Your story here reminds me of how John F. Kennedy had Ngo Dinh Diem killed and overthrew his government. How Kennedy was so concerned about the Domino Effect in southeast Asia that he sacrificed thousands of American soldiers' lives. How he said, “Pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend...to assure the survival and success of liberty.” Just think of what could have happened had Nixon won the election in 1960 instead of Kennedy. America could have avoided a long nasty war and the deaths of 58,000+ soldiers.
ReplyDeleteYes, war is a bitch and it seems that Bush forgot the lesson from Kennedy that America shouldn't interfere with another country's business. But so it goes.