http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=2601The US Dept of Defense has requested an additional $50 billion to continue its torture, killing and abuse of Iraqis in the name of "freedom and democracy." The US government has a long tradition of wasting borrowed money, but do we really want to squander billions of dollars building our war criminal dossier?
Iraqis have made it clear that they are fed up with American arrogance. They did not choose us to remake their society, draft their constitution, pick their leaders, and make sure that their religion plays no part in their political life. They certainly did not ask us to occupy their country for years to come in order to make certain that Iraqis adhere to America's plan for Iraq.<snip>
Tens of thousands of people have been killed and maimed and $200 billion squandered in a gratuitous invasion of Iraq. There were no weapons of mass destruction, no reconstituted nuclear weapons, no terrorist links between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.
All of this was known by the "morally superior" US government prior to the invasion. The deception of the American public and the United Nations was unprecedented. Even a government as incompetent as the US would not assemble 150,000 troops in a tiny area adjacent to Iraq if the country about to be invaded really had weapons of mass destruction. One or two weapons of mass destruction and there goes our entire army with no troops available to replace them. (my emphasis -- this is a point I've not seen made before)
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I posted this for two reasons; it's a good article, and antiwar.com is a worthwhile site to visit. Just keep in mind that this is NOT a leftist site.
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