Stop Calling Iraq War A Mistake

Great essay by former Rep. Dennis Kucinich, one of the all-time great members of Congress:

As Iraq descends into chaos again, more than a decade after "Mission Accomplished," media commentators and politicians have mostly agreed upon calling the war a "mistake." But the "mistake" rhetoric is the language of denial, not contrition: it minimizes the Iraq War's disastrous consequences, removes blame, and deprives Americans of any chance to learn from our generation's foreign policy disaster. The Iraq War was not a "mistake" -- it resulted from calculated deception. The painful, unvarnished fact is that we were lied to. Now is the time to have the willingness to say that.

In fact, the truth about Iraq was widely available, but it was ignored. There were no WMD. Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11. The war wasn't about liberating the Iraqi people. I said this in Congress in 2002. Millions of people who marched in America in protest of the war knew the truth, but were maligned by members of both parties for opposing the president in a time of war -- and even leveled with the spurious charge of "not supporting the troops."

I've written and spoken widely about this topic, so today I offer two ways we can begin to address our role:

1) President Obama [ad-Dajjal] must tell us the truth about Iraq and the false scenario that caused us to go to war.

2) Journalists and media commentators should stop giving inordinate air and print time to people who were either utterly wrong in their support of the war or willful in their calculations to make war.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dennis-j-kucinich/stop-calling-the-iraq-war_b_5499375.html

Congress, the MSM, and the NeoCons knew exactly what they were doing. They should be held accountable for the lies they told us and not allowed to excuse their intentional war crimes merely by saying they were "mistaken".

Now Obama ad-Dajjal and his minions are repeating the same lies to justify yet another war in Iraq. The overthrow of the legitimate government of Libya and the arming of so-called rebels in Syria has led directly to what is now happening in Iraq. All we get is political theater, while the lies and their tragic consequences go on and on and on.