The Bush administration was already planning to invade Iraq before 9/11, but the attacks supplied the necessary pretext. The catastrophic war that followed turned Iraq into an ungovernable wasteland.
Tag: Iraq
Writing in the conservative rag, The National Review, months before the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, Goldberg paraphrased a statement which he attributed to Ledeen with reference to the interventionist US foreign policy.
“Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business,” Goldberg wrote, quoting Ledeen.
Source: US Foreign Policy Adrift: Why Washington is No Longer Calling the Shots – CounterPunch.org
The U.S. Committed Cliocide (Destruction of History) in Iraq, and even Returning Gilgamesh Can’t Fix it
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The US government has returned 17,000 archeological artifacts to Iraq, many of them over 4,000 …
The Trillion Dollar War: the Economics of Overextension –
The long-term burden of paying for the conflicts will curtail the country’s ability to tackle other urgent problems…Our vast and growing indebtedness inevitably makes it harder to afford new health-care plans, make large-scale repairs to crumbling roads and bridges, or build better-equipped schools. Already, the escalating cost of the wars has crowded out spending on virtually all other discretionary federal programs, including the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, and federal aid to states and cities, all of which have been scaled back significantly since the invasion of Iraq.
Source: The Trillion Dollar War: the Economics of Overextension – CounterPunch.org
Neocons Don’t Regret the Iraq Disaster — And Now They Want War With Iran
You might have thought the media’s Bush-era peddlers of Middle East death and mayhem would be too humiliated to show their faces in public. Nope, they’re still here — and now they want war with Iran.
Source: Neocons Don’t Regret the Iraq Disaster — And Now They Want War With Iran
CNN Moderators, Alarmed by Cost of Medicare for All, Ignore Price Tag of Endless War
“None of the candidates who said they support keeping troops in Iraq were asked how they were going to pay for it.”
The Liars that Led Us to War
Two Iraq war veterans explain why Congress has failed to stop the endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and say the United States needs to learn from its imperialist history if anything is going to change.
Source: The Liars that Led Us to War
Imperialist musical chairs
“We simply cannot believe anything the Trump administration says—and neither can our allies.”
gangster puppets of israel pompeo and bolton rev up to do israel’s bidding: do an iraq on iran…the last undestroyed country in the middle east…would ‘pimp’ do better than puppet?
It is hard to believe that an imperialist gangster like Pompeo thinks he is an evangelical. Pompeo and Bolton as puppet gangsters of Israeli conspiracies to destroy one MIddle East country after another are lip/drool/smacking over the last holdout. A war with Iran could an Iraq on that holdout and essentially destroy it once and for all, long echoes of the 1954 CIA coup…
While Trump is withdrawing US troops from Syria and Afghanistan, he is ramping up aggression against Iran — acting both less and more hawkish than his intelligence agencies. Trita Parsi says Washington is violating international law in its campaign to isolate and strangle Tehran…
Source: Trump Withdrawing from Old Wars While Threatening Iran with New One
