Seven years of US led genocide have truly wrecked yet another nation. As a premonition of what’s to come, Iraqi insurgents launched a broad series of attacks on August 25th.
Let’s not forget to thank president Bush and the US Congress for this hideous accomplishment. Let’s also not forget to thank President Obama for keeping US forces stationed in this hell hole …
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I will say it again as I have many times … War is a Racket – Made by Government.
how many republicans spoke up about the first bush prez, the former head of the cia, who could only repeat numerous times on television to millions of people before checking that…..
“Television flashed her testimony around the world. It electrified opposition to Iraq’s president, Saddam Hussein, who was now portrayed by U.S. president George Bush not only as “the Butcher of Baghdad” but — so much for old friends — “a tyrant worse than Hitler.”
Bush quoted Nayirah at every opportunity. Six times in one month he referred to “312 premature babies at Kuwait City’s maternity hospital who died after Iraqi soldiers stole their incubators and left the infants on the floor,…….”
“Nayirah, though, was no impartial eyewitness, a fact carefully concealed by her handlers. She was the daughter of one Saud Nasir Al-Sabah, Kuwait’s ambassador to the United States. A few key Congressional leaders and reporters knew who Nayirah was, but none of them thought of sharing that minor detail with Congress, let alone the American people…..”
“Everything Nayirah said, as it turned out, was a lie. ….”
“How did Nayirah first come to the attention of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, which put her before the world’s cameras? It was arranged by Hill & Knowlton, a public relations firm hired to rally the U.S. populace behind Bush’s policy of going to war…..”
http://www.counterpunch.org/cohen1228.html
how many said that this was a mistake?? how many knew that there were lies beign told about babeis pulled from incubators?
maybe this so called iraq war is a lie. its just that they are getting 400k a year and chef cooked meals to do it.
while my dumb!$@ famliy parades around republican stickers on their cars and lies as well.
How are you reacting to your family? How are you dealing with it?