Nine years after we were lied into war with Iraq, those who objected deserve some praise

[Galraedia]

Monday marks the ninth anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war and occupation.

The rationale for that war was fabricated in the highest reaches of the U.S. leadership.

First came the lies, so many it was impossible to keep up. Then came the shock and awe, the crudely invented Iraqi jubilation, the torture, the renditions, the secret prisons, the indefinite detentions, the deluge of unaccounted-for cash, the no-bid contracts, the flaccid media, the spectacle of "mission accomplished," the smug claims that there was no insurgency, the lousy armor ...

The endless flow of blood.

There is now a long list of the dead who would not be dead were it not for this war initiated out of bravado, rancid ideology and doctored "evidence." Thousands of dead Americans and allied troops. And, at the very least, 120,000 dead Iraqis, perhaps several hundred thousand. Deaths in any war are terrible enough. Deaths in a war of choice, a concocted war, an illegal preventive war, count as nothing short of murder. The list of the maimed, the widowed, the orphaned is far longer, the list of the psychologically impaired longer still.


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[KG]

1. we're still being lied to.

[leveymg]

2. Here we go again. Same lies, same liars. Much bigger war this time, though.

Unless that's what you want, better start speaking out against it.

Here's a place to start - don't let DU get taken over by the pro-war propagandists. Don't let their lies go unchallenged. Unless, of course, you want a bigger war this time.

[Dawson Leery]

3. The same neo-con sob's are trying to get us involved in a war against

Iran on the same fraudulent grounds.

[applegrove]

4. I totally thought it would be a cake walk with minimal death or injury to Iraqi people. I totally

bought into what Powell said at his UN speech. I'm not worthy of those who saw through the bullshit.

[Fool Count]

6. After Powell's UN speech, I told everyone that if that was all they got there would be no

WMDs found in Iraq. Everyone without exception laughed at me.

[applegrove]

7. Good for you. I'm easily manipulated it seems. I do better when I'm ouside a group than inside.

So sorry we didn't listen to you.

[Boojatta]

5. Kick

[nanabugg]

8. Barbara Lee for VP!! nt

[malthaussen]

9. Most of our wars since Vietnam have been based on lies

That seems to be the accepted technique, and it works. Lest we forget, after 9/11, most Americans wanted blood, and lots of it. One could argue, in fact, that Mr Bush was obligated to go to war with somebody to satisfy our desire for vengeance. To object to the war was tantamount to rejecting the dead of the Trade Towers. It was an uncomfortable time to stand up for reason.

-- Mal