As they bought everything, Everything, the Cheney, Bush and Company were sellin, while swooning over the Rumsfeld gushing their admiration everytime he spoke especially in front of them!! Meanwhile the peoples, some 72% fully supported the abandoning of the missions and those sent to accomplish so extremely quickly after 9/11, representatives of the conservative persuasion, and their fan base, were more then swooning over them all as they quickly rubber stamped all the wants from!!
No one should forget the media's role in the march to the Iraq War
Journalists caught up in a disinformation war failed to question and even championed the case for the bloody conflict in Iraq.
October 31, 2015 - George W. Bush wore a suitably sombre grey suit to deliver his "axis of evil" speech, which began laying out the case for the US invasion of Iraq. Few could have faulted his performance on that day in January 2002, just four months after the September 11 terrorist attacks. He told the applauding joint sitting of the US House of Representatives and Senate that Iraq was allied with terrorists, and posed "a grave and growing danger" to US interests through possession of "weapons of mass destruction".
What we now know is that Bush's performance was just that – an act. There was nothing to link Iraq to terrorism.
Yet more than 10 years later the leaders who took us to war are still in denial. Just this week former British prime minister Tony Blair issued what amounted to a non-apology as he tried to spin his way out of the trouble he expects from the findings of the Chilcot inquiry into Britain's role in the Iraq War. But what has been forgotten is the role of many journalists who led the charge to war. read more>>>
"It's a shame Brian Williams will be the only person ever punished for lying about Iraq"
And now Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl after the Whole Country Abandoned the Missions and those sent to Accomplish, and still haven't paid for either nor the long term results from and that includes the VA their responsibility, so extremely quickly after 9/11!!
Australians Understand What American Led Iraq War Policies Created
* * * CIA Torture: Read the Senate Intelligence Committee report * * *
In a Democracy: 'Citizens must know what is done in their name'
Pres. Bush: “Prisoners of war must at all times be humanely treated”
Blackwater Security Guards Handed Lengthy Sentences For Iraqi Killings
Human rights groups call for special prosecutor to investigate CIA torture
22 December 2014 - The ACLU and Human Rights Watch say the offences amount to ‘a vast criminal conspiracy’ and are ‘shocking and corrosive’ to US democracy and credibility read more>>>
* * * Seeds of ISIL Planted By Bush/Cheney and Conservative Congresses * * *
"Without the Iraq War There Would be No Islamic State"
Aug 8, 2015 - IS Top Command Dominated by Ex-Officers in Saddam's Army
* * * The British Iraq War Inquiry * * *
Released will carry private communications between GWBush and TBlair, like this already released: TB said there was a danger the Tories would see this as their chance to get rid of him … Bush said they would make it clear to the Tories that if they moved to get rid of TB "we will get rid of them".
Brit Report into Iraq War will Be Published in June or July 2016
* * * Iraq War Promoted Terrorism Rather Than Reducing It * * *
24 April 2014 - Britain’s involvement in the Iraq War promoted terrorism rather than reducing it and was a “strategic failure”, according to a major new report which estimated the cost of all UK conflicts since the end of the Cold War.
The Royal United Services Institute said the UK could face a bill of nearly £65bn, once the cost of long-term care for injured veterans was factored in, with most of the money was spent on the wars
in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The study, called Wars in Peace, said both conflicts were largely “strategic failures” for the UK, The Guardian reported."
Facts: Matthew Hoh {former Marine and foreign service officer in Afghanistan}: "We spend a trillion dollars a year on national security in this country."
"And when you add up to the Department of Defense, Department of State, CIA, Veterans Affairs, interest on debt, the number that strikes me the most about how much we're committed financially to these wars and to our current policies is we have spent $250 billion already just on interest payments on the debt we've incurred for the Iraq and Afghan wars." 26 September 2014
Bob Herbert "Losing Our Way" : "And then the staggering costs of these wars, which are borne by the taxpayers. I mean, one of the things that was insane was that, as we're at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bush administration cut taxes. This has never been done in American history. The idea of cutting taxes while you're going to war is just crazy. I mean, it's madness." Bill 'Moyers and Company': Restoring an America That Has Lost its Way 10 Oct. 2014
$14 Million An Hour: War Costs Top $1.6 Trillion Since 9/11, Say Congressional Researchers
December 22 2014 - American taxpayers have shelled out roughly $1.6 trillion on war spending since 9/11, according to a new report from Congress’ nonpartisan research arm. That’s roughly $337 million a day -- or nearly a quarter million dollars a minute -- every single day for 13 years. read more>>>
“With no shared sacrifices being asked of civilians after Sept. 11"
Chris Hayes MSNBC: "If you can run a deficit to go to war, you can run a deficit to take care of the people who fought it" In response to Republican opposition to expanding Veterans' benefits on fiscal grounds
Neither of these recent wars have yet been paid for, let alone the results from, including the long ignored or outright denied existence of, till this Administrations Cabinet and Gen Shinseki, only Government branch consistent for the past six years, issues! As well as under deficits most of the, grossly under funded, VA budget is still borrowed thus added, problem creating, costs that shouldn't exist!
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