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Think about what an incredible feat the Iraq War was.
The government announces our military needs to invade a country that has no intention of going to war with us. They provide the rationale that this country on the other side of the world COULD someday, potentially develop dangerous weapons.
After filming a propaganda piece of Saddam's statue being torn down, we announce to Iraq that we have "liberated" them. We then watch as violent anarchy sweeps across the country, eventually killing over 100,000 innocent people.
We train "Iraqi security" and let them set up a regime of torture while we look the other way. To put down some parts of the country, we bomb them with white phosphorus. Women and children burn alive.
We construct the largest U.S. embassy in the world and sign some of the largest oilfields in the world over to Western multinationals.
After a half-hearted search, the government admits the whole "weapons" thing was a big goof. Oops.
The media lets it slide. The idea that the war was about oil is considered a fringe conspiracy. The idea that Bush be held accountable is discouraged as simply unacceptable. Americans continue to talk about how they live in the greatest, freest nation in the world.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
Now we have 400,000 secret reports on the Iraq war thanks to a small group of anarchist hackers in Iceland.
Here's what most Americans will read about them:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/…
Overseas you get a slightly different impression:
http://www.independent.co.uk/opi…
http://english.aljazeera.net/sec…- And I am super glad that the war seems to have paid for itself. Wasn't that what we were told?TheBlueOne
- dont forget the politics of walking away from afghan without laden. all the troops all the money to just walkaway********
- peopel got upset and wanted blood. probably should have jsut shrugged it off, and paid hit squads. bush would have been called a coward then********
- been called a coward then.********
- walking away w/o bin laden? Bin Ladens been dead for a whileTheBlueOne
- Bin Laden is believed to be in Pakistan, if he's even alive. I thought I had read that somewhere.Josev
- Let's face it, no one fkin' knows!ukit
- I think what deathboy is referring to is the time we had him surrounded and then Bush ordered Afghani soldiers in for some reason...they fucked up and he escaped.ukit
- some unknown reason...they fucked up and he escaped.ukit
- Thats the story anyway, who knowsukit