How War perpetuates itself as an enterprise. It is an indictment of the George W. Bush administration, which falsely said it was going into Iraq because of a connection between al-Qaeda and Baghdad. There was none. Ironically, by invading, occupying, weakening and looting Iraq, Bush and Cheney brought al-Qaeda into the country and so weakened it as to allow it actually to take and hold territory in our own time. They put nothing in place of the system they tore down. They destroyed the socialist economy without succeeding in building private firms or commerce. They put in place an electoral system that emphasizes religious and ethnic divisions. They helped provoke a civil war in 2006-2007, and took credit for its subsiding in 2007-2008, attributing it to a troop escalation of 30,000 men (not very plausible). In fact, the Shiite militias won the civil war on the ground, turning Baghdad into a largely Shiite city and expelling many Sunnis to places like Mosul. Problem is of course, is that one of the very first things Obama did after becoming puppet emperor was to issue a de-facto pardon to the previous criminal regime. His earliest cabinet move was to re-appoint Bush family crony, Robert uncle Bobby Gates as Minister of War Crimes... We can at least imagine justice. commondreams.org/news/2014/06/11/bloody-legacy-us-invasion-tattered-iraq-teeters-edge
Posted on: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 19:48:31 +0000
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