Iraq, the "war" an American crime

To truly honor those brave men and women in uniform – and, even more because there are more of them — the millions of Iraqis whose lives we destroyed, Americans need to look unflinchingly at this dreadful war.

They need to look at the ignorant, twisted and duplicitous men and women who started it, at the institutions that failed to stop it, and at their own complicity in it. Above all, they need to look at its terrible toll.

We need to remember that this war was launched under false pretenses  ( this is a link, click on it for details)  by an administration that used fake evidence to push it through. Americans need to remember their own understandable fear after 9/11, and how they allowed cunning and manipulative ideologues to exploit it.

We need to remember that the institutions that should have resisted the war – Congress and the media – completely failed to do so. Drugged by post-9/11 patriotism and group think, America’s representatives and their journalists abandoned their posts at the crucial hour.

Yes, the US politicians and US corporate media lied from start to finish on this hideous occupation of Iraq. And they show no signs of stopping, and no signs of noting how TENS OF MILLIONS of lives were damaged forever. Below is one soldier’s apology to the Iraqi people, and a commentary on the LIES that we tell ourselves about this war of aggression.