We have been at war with Iraq for 24 years, starting with Operations Desert Shield and Storm in 1990. Shortly after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait that year, the propaganda machine began agitating for a US attack on Iraq. We all remember the appearance before Congress of a young Kuwaiti woman claiming that the Iraqis were ripping Kuwaiti babies from incubators. The woman turned out to be the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the US and the story was false, but it was enough to turn US opposition in favor of an attack.
This month, yet another US president - the fifth in a row - began bombing Iraq. He is also placing in US troops on the ground despite promising not to do so.
The second Iraq war in 2003 cost the US some two trillion dollars. According to estimates, more than one million deaths have occurred as a result of that war. Millions of tons of US bombs have fallen in Iraq almost steadily since 1991.
What have we accomplished? Where are we now, 24 years later? We are back where we started, at war in Iraq!
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"If any quesiton why we died, tell them because our fathers lied." Rudyard Kipling.
ReplyDeleteWhat we have accomplished is to waste billions of dollars that we do not have, to ruin the lives of millions around the world, To become an imperalist power, determined to impose its will on the rest of the world. To have the hubris that we, the USA.gov know what is best for every other nation and that they need to be just like us. To slowly destroy our own constitution, and checks and balances of government. To become multiple times over the very thing we once declared our independence from and fought a war over. To piss on every veteran who served to stop the evils of Nazism, fascism, communism; that every thing they did was in vain. To consider it acceptable behavior for the government to lie to the public. To have the public so dumbed down that they will tell the same lies once again. "No combat troops, No troops on the ground, strictly a humanitarian mission" <-Bulls--t! Pure BS
Lastly, it has created a situation where that average citizen is being spied upon all the time and is viewed at the enemy by is own government.
The only people who have benefited by this are the bankers, the weapons makers, the con artists who know how to scam the system, and the politcians who cynically wrap themselves in the flag at re-election time.
Says it all. Thanks.
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