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Sun Jun 15, 2014, 05:19 AM Jun 2014

War in Iraq Cost $4 Trillion, An Enormous Loss of Life: 8 Warmongers Who Would Take Us Back

http://www.alternet.org/media/war-iraq-cost-4-trillion-and-enormous-loss-life-here-are-8-warmongers-who-would-take-us-back



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1. Senator John McCain. Just because you had the terrible fate to be a Vietnam War prisoner-of-war and a defeated candidate doesn’t make you Washington’s wise man about all things war-related. This week, McCain has ended his anti-Obama remarks in the Senate by throwing down his text and stamping away. As Waldman reminded us, in 2003 McCain said invading U.S. troops would be greeted as liberators. He’s also said that centuries-old disputes between Sunnis and Shiites are not a factor in the region’s continuing unrest. Oh really? McCain also believed that the longest war in U.S. history would be brief.

2. Senator Lindsey Graham. The other half of the Senate’s dynamic pro-war duo is the Senator from South Carolina, who, after a classified Senate briefing told reporters that U.S. airstrikes were needed. “If American airpower is not interjected into the equation, I don't see how you stop these people,” he said. “We’ve got another Benghazi in the making here,” she added, referring to the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Libya that killed four people including the U.S. Ambassador.

3. House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon. Congress’s war hawks are not confined to the Senate. In the House, the chairman of the committee that oversees the Pentagon has been a voracious Obama critic on all of the recent big foreign policy challenges—Syria, Ukraine and now Iraq. On Friday, he sprouted a variety on the line that is echoing around the right-wing opinion pages: forceful action is needed and that’s just what we’re not getting from Obama. “The White House has a history of ‘considering all options’ while choosing none,” McKeon told UPI. “There are no quick fix solutions to this crisis and I will not support a one shot strike that looks good for the cameras but has no enduring effect.”

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4. Former George W. Bush Speechwriter Micheal Gerson. There are plenty of hawks with prominent podiums as Washington Post columnists—and we’ll get to more shortly. But the WaPo’s Gerson represents a special breed that needs to be chastized: he was Bush’s top speechwriter in the run up to the 2003 invasion, where he helped craft the lies that launched that war— hundreds of White House statements. Today, he and his warmonger brethren are touting a slick line, trying to bait Obama into sending in ground troops by saying that the President isn’t a strong enough leader. “Risk aversion, it turns out, can multiply complications,” he wrote in a Thursday piece entitled, “End of Illusions.”
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War in Iraq Cost $4 Trillion, An Enormous Loss of Life: 8 Warmongers Who Would Take Us Back (Original Post) xchrom Jun 2014 OP
That $4 Trillion Dollars is PROFIT to someone!!! Ka-ching!!! blkmusclmachine Jun 2014 #1
K&R! This post should have hundreds of recommendations! Enthusiast Jun 2014 #2
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Sun Jun 15, 2014, 05:32 AM
Jun 2014

The Neo-Cons that foisted the Iraq War on us should be universally condemned by all US citizens.

Can you imagine today's Sunday Morning talk shows filled with Neo-Con chickenhawks? It will be a sight to behold.

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