The Obvious Truths about the Iraq War
Chuck Puckett, over at The Year of Being 56, has a good idea: No talking about the Iraq War without first stating The Obvious Truths.
Why? Because we Americans have short memories, and the vampires in Washington are using it to their advantage every chance they get:
In any discussion that deals with “freedom on the march” or “sectarian violence” or “Iraq is a hotbed of terrorism” or “if we leave, the country will dissolve into chaos”, the Obvious Truths put everything into the proper contextual framework:
We caused all this crap.
Or, to be more precise, CheneyBushRumsfeld caused it (started it, then immediately bungled the war they couldn’t wait to have). Every atom, every iota of the unholy mess has its source in the actions of those criminals. We must never forget this. And even though we, as a nation, must admit to a gross sin of omission by allowing ourselves to be blinded by the simplest forms of fear-mongering combined with jingoistic flag-waving, their sins of commission are almost astronomical in comparison. To knowingly feed your countrymen a diet of fear and misinformation, and then to feed your youngsters to a meat-grinding insanity like Iraq, those are the acts of demons.
Read the rest of Chuck’s thoughts on the U.S. Invasion and Occupation of Iraq, and the surge that keeps on going: Day 100: An Accounting.
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