A very thorough timeline of Iraq War and the Lies

[InRareForm]

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/12/leadup-iraq-war-timeline

[cheguevara]

French debunk yellowcake theory: "We told the Americans, 'Bullshit. It doesn't make any sense,'" says French official.

:lol

[SnakeBoy]

8/27/00 America must not act as "an imperialist power, willy-nilly moving into capitals in that part of the world, taking down governments."—VP candidate Cheney

10/3/00 Debating Al Gore, George W. Bush says he'd commit troops only with an "exit strategy," and he'd be "very careful about using our troops as nation builders."

10/11/00 In a subsequent debate, Bush says: "If we're an arrogant nation, they'll resent us. If we're a humble nation, but strong, they'll welcome us."

Ah, I remember voting for those guys....memories.

[George Gervin's Afro]

but,but,but fast and Furious and Solyndra are scandals that need to be investigated!

[boutons_deux]

2) Widespread Trafficking Of Iraqi Women And Girls Thanks To The Iraq War

Since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, over 100,000 Iraqis have been killed and another 4.4 million displaced, leaving many women and girls widowed or orphaned.

As a result of the conflict more than 50,000 Iraqi women find themselves trapped in sexual servitude in Syria and Jordan, giving rise to a lucrative and growing sex industry that feeds off the chaos from the Iraq war.

Women and girls inside Iraq fare no better, often working in brothels run by female pimps. In an interview with the Inter Press Service, Rania, a former trafficker who now works as an undercover researcher for a women’s support group in Iraq, detailed a visit to “a house in Baghdad’s Al-Jihad district, where girls as young as 16 were held to cater exclusively to the U.S. military. The brothel’s owner told Rania that an Iraqi interpreter employed by the Americans served as the go-between, transporting girls to and from the U.S. airport base.”

Although human trafficking is illegal in Iraq, the country lacks a robust criminal justice system to enforce the law. Sadly, the victims of trafficking and prostitution are often the ones who are punished.

3) More Iraq Veterans Committed Suicide Last Year Than Active-Duty Troops Died In Combat

In 2010, 468 active duty and reserve troops committed suicide while 462 died in combat, marking the second year in a row that more US soldiers killed themselves than died at war, according to Congressional Quarterly's John Donnelly.

Over the past decade, over 2,000 soldiers have taken their own lives, yet they receive little attention in our corporate media. In August the New York Times ran a story with the celebratory headline, “Iraq War Marks First Month With No U.S. Military Deaths.” That same month, the Department of Defense reported19 possible suicides among active-duty soldiers. In July, that number reached a record high of 32. America’s decade-long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan leave troops with deep emotional scars that can be just as dangerous as a combat wound. Perhaps it’s time we gave them the attention they deserve.

http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/153455

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Hidden collateral damage of dickhead's war-for-oil and UCA hegemony over M/E.

[FromWayDowntown]

I'll continue to await translation of the documents.

[boutons_deux]

POLL: Iraqis Say They’re Worse Off After War, View Iran Unfavorably

Iraqi views can again be described as conflicted: 22% saying they are happy; 35% saying they are worried; and 30% saying they feel both emotions.

Iraqis, overall, feel that their country is “worse off” because of the U.S.-led war there — perhaps, for example, because Baghdad recently ranked as the worst place on the planet to live — with strong divergences across ethnic groups. Likewise, in the U.S., respondents were split between political affiliations about whether they thought Iraq was better or worse off. This chart breaks down the various responses to the survey:

http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Iraqbetterworseoff.png


http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/12/20/393290/poll-iraq-war-iran/

[4>0rings]

"Pakistani forces capture Al Qaeda "operations chief " Abu Zubaydah and CIA ferrets him away to underground interrogation facility in Thailand. Bush told he's mentally unstable and really only Al Qaeda's travel agent. [Date the public knew: 11/2/05]"

:lmao

[Wild Cobra]

POLL: Iraqis Say They’re Worse Off After War, View Iran Unfavorably

Iraqi views can again be described as conflicted: 22% saying they are happy; 35% saying they are worried; and 30% saying they feel both emotions.

Iraqis, overall, feel that their country is “worse off” because of the U.S.-led war there — perhaps, for example, because Baghdad recently ranked as the worst place on the planet to live — with strong divergences across ethnic groups. Likewise, in the U.S., respondents were split between political affiliations about whether they thought Iraq was better or worse off. This chart breaks down the various responses to the survey:

http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Iraqbetterworseoff.png


http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/12/20/393290/poll-iraq-war-iran/
Think progress of course has their own slant. You should take the time to read and understand the actual poll instead of having the propaganda spoon fed to you.

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x262/Wild_Cobra/Politics/IraqZogbyPoll.jpg

[boutons_deux]

what's your "slant" on the poll?

[boutons_deux]

After Iraq, War Is US

(This post is one of four from the Council on Foreign Relations in response to the question, Was the Iraq War worth it?)

As framed, the question invites a sober comparison of benefits and costs - gain vs. pain. The principal benefit derived from the Iraq War is easily identified: as the war's defenders insist with monotonous regularity, the world is indeed a better place without Saddam Hussein. Point taken.

Yet few of those defenders have demonstrated the moral courage - or is it simple decency - to consider who paid and what was lost in securing Saddam's removal. That tally includes well over four thousand US dead along with several tens of thousands wounded and otherwise bearing the scars of war; vastly larger numbers of Iraqi civilians killed, maimed, and displaced; and at least a trillion dollars expended - probably several times that by the time the last bill comes due decades from now. Recalling that Saddam's weapons of mass destruction and alleged ties to al-Qaeda both turned out to be all but non-existent, a Churchillian verdict on the war might read thusly: Seldom in the course of human history have so many sacrificed so dearly to achieve so little.

Yet in inviting a narrow cost-benefit analysis, the question-as-posed serves to understate the scope of the debacle engineered by the war's architects. The disastrous legacy of the Iraq War extends beyond treasure squandered and lives lost or shattered. Central to that legacy has been Washington's decisive and seemingly irrevocable abandonment of any semblance of self-restraint regarding the use of violence as an instrument of statecraft. With all remaining prudential, normative, and constitutional barriers to the use of force having now been set aside, war has become a normal condition, something that the great majority of Americans accept without complaint. War is US.

Central to [the war's] legacy has been Washington's decisive and seemingly irrevocable abandonment of any semblance of self-restraint regarding the use of violence as an instrument of statecraft.

One senses that this was what the likes of [Vice President Dick] Cheney, [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld, and [Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul] Wolfowitz (urged on by militarists cheering from the sidelines and with George W. Bush serving as their enabler) intended all along. By leaving intact and even enlarging the policies that his predecessor had inaugurated, President Barack Obama has handed these militarists an unearned victory. As they drag themselves from one "overseas contingency operation" to the next, American soldiers must reckon with the consequences. So too will the somnolent American people be obliged to do, perhaps sooner than they think.

http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/16/bacevich-after-iraq-war-is-u-s/

[Heat Miser]

Just think when the Earths true creation timeline is made public how the Agloco's of the world will feel being so far off base.

[Wild Cobra]

Just think when the Earths true creation timeline is made public how the Agloco's of the world will feel being so far off base.
Is that some kind of an invocation spell? Agloco hasn't appeared in this thread yet.