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Never forget the stupidest of all our wars [1]
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Date: 2023-03-19
‘The US army destroyed our lives’: five Iraqis on the war that changed the Middle East
Twenty years ago today the US and the UK invaded Iraq in a disastrous military mission based on flawed intelligence, months of lying to the world, and a casual disregard for international law. The invasion would lead to hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths, decades of civil war and vicious sectarian violence in Iraq, and the rise of the Islamic State militant group. Incubated in a US prison camp, IS was directed and staffed in part by former members and officers of the Saddam-era Ba’ath party. In a pattern that would be repeated again and again over the following two decades of the “war on terror”, the US and its allies, including the United Kingdom, assumed that overwhelming technical and military superiority was all they needed to control a distant nation and its people.
It is a timely reminder as the warmongers are making the rounds in a drive to make us all poorer and less safe by driving us into Cold War 2.0.
The MIC must be laughing its little cotton socks off, bring on the new improved military budget!
Yay!
Yehaw!
Just when the War on Terror was fizzling out.
Fuck the lot of them.
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