The cost of Iraq War

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Without return on cost

By James A. George, American Political System Analyst

The manner in which Americans were manipulated into believing that war with Iraq was a necessity was reminiscent of the manner in which we were manipulated into fighting the Vietnam War. With Vietnam, the war was based on faulty theory and analysis. With Iraq, it was allegedly based on false intelligence, though that is too simple.

George W. Bush and his father’s legacy administration had motive to “finish” what George Herbert Walker Bush didn’t. The Military Industrial Complex was highly motivated to go to war and to make money from it. Vice President Cheney had tremendous conflict of interest, having been CEO of Halliburton and his wife having been on the Board of Directors of Lockheed Martin Corporation. Dig a little deeper and paid journalists will find enormous conflicts of interest permeating the executive branch that provided incentive for this unnecessary war that depleted America’s Middle Class.

The executive branch, populated by Republicans, has escaped prosecution though historians will likely nail them in the end. By that time, they will be in their historical graves while their grandchildren are paying the bills.

Many will have grown up without their soldier parents, and many more will grow up with their disabled parents.

As we seek to right our wrongs, remember in November.

Via the Washington Post