The Anniversary
I knew that the Iraq War was bogus from the get go. I knew Rumsfeld and Chaney from their work with Reagan and GHW Bush. I knew they couldn’t be trusted to even approximate the truth.
The entire thing smelled of AIPAC and the Neocon march to empire.
The UN weapons inspectors had to be pulled out so the Shrubbery could attack.
The ‘intelligence’ felt wrong and illogical as it was reported. The troops numbers and estimated costs were clearly delusional. Anyone who failed to fall in line for the march to war was sidelined and attacked for being un-American.
I live in an area dominated by military bases. Many of those from this area who died were buried from a church a block away from my house. I saw the cost of the lie in the slow parades of cars passing by.
That the people who supported the Iraq War are still listened to, is insulting to the memories of those who died in the pointless catastrophe, whichever side they were on, and especially those who weren’t on either side in the war – the ‘collateral damage’.
When he was running, candidate George W. Bush said he wasn’t interested in ‘nation building’. That was one of the truest things the man ever said. Look at what his Presidency has done to Iraq, Afghanistan, and the United States…
March 21, 2013 Comments Off on The Anniversary
