Still Evading the Truth of Iraq War

[marmar]

from Consortium News:


Still Evading the Truth of Iraq War
March 15, 2013

Neocons who played key roles in the Iraq War – like Douglas Feith and Stephen Hadley – are using the tenth anniversary to continue lying about why the invasion was ordered in the first place. Thus, they are still avoiding an examination of how the U.S. lurched into the disaster, says ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar.

By Paul R. Pillar


Documentaries, commentaries and forums marking the ten-year anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War have been so numerous that they already have become tiresome, even though the actual anniversary of the invasion is not until next Tuesday. The repetition would nonetheless be worthwhile if it helped to inculcate and to reinforce lessons that might reduce the chance that a debacle comparable to the Iraq War will itself be repeated.

Maybe some such positive reinforcement will occur, but a problem is that the anniversary retrospectives also give renewed exposure to those who promoted the war and have a large stake in still promoting the idea that they were not responsible for foisting on the nation an expedition that was so hugely damaging to American interests.

I participated in one anniversary event earlier this week: a loosely structured on-the-record discussion, organized by the Rand Corporation and the publishers of Foreign Policy, involving about 20 people who had something to do with the Iraq War, whether it was starting it, fighting it, or writing about it.

The session had the admirable stated purpose of extracting lessons for the future rather than merely repeating old debates from the past. But a clear pattern throughout the event was that ten years have not diluted the house line of those most directly involved in promoting the war, including among others then-deputy national security adviser Stephen Hadley and Douglas Feith, who as an undersecretary of defense was one of the most rabid of the war promoters. ..................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://consortiumnews.com/2013/03/15/still-evading-the-truth-of-iraq-war/

[yurbud]

1. and all of official Washington still pretends like they believed the BS at the time and mostly still

do

[cbrer]

2. To ignore the lessons that some (most?) of our citizens learned

As opposed to the continued path of maniacal imperialism that our government pursues, is at least IMHO, partially disingenuous.

Many of us learned about lies, greed, and Plutocratic dominance. As well as the emerging police state occuring in the aftermath.

But if ones supposition is simply to point out the ignoring of the "lessons" available from our horrific foreign policy by the government, then I guess the article maintains a precarious integrity.