That was the title of a report last night that Rachel had on her show:
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After abandoning the Main Missions of why we sent our Military into that region, and the greater majority in the Country cheered!!
I was going to include a link to a rummy twitter fiasco yesterday, the anniversary of the Iraq invasion that I happened to run across but coming into the site I see that's already been covered and highly recommended.
While streaming Rachel this morning NPR had a report on about further spinning from one of the major architects and propagandists from the bushco group Richard Perle. Follow below the thingy to the extended.
Perle Looks Back On The Start Of The Iraq War
March 20, 2013 - As part of Morning Edition's coverage of the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Renee Montagne talks to Richard Perle, former chairman of the Defense Department's Defense Policy Board. Perle was one of the most outspoken champions of invading Iraq, He explains his early support for the war and elaborates on the miscalculations of the last decade.
If NPR player isn't showing you can listen at link above, transcript not yet up
Spin all they want, the reality is catching up to them.
Brown University - Iraq: 10 Years After Costs of War - Research Papers
Costs of War Project
I'm only guessing but I doubt all they were doing yesterday, rummy and others, and reports like the NPR piece with the guilty had only to do with the anniversary date. I've been thinking for awhile that the players have the think tanks working overtime to write what they should say in preparation for the British Iraq War Inquiry final report, delayed by months already, that's coming out in a few months. In the early testimony plenty was coming forth about what was going on here and publicly stated by the Brit counterparts in the civilian and military that were dealing with the bushco administration and probably plenty in the congress. Like these few snippets from Brit media reports I've used before.
The British Iraq War Inquiry
In the above link, yet to be officially released, delayed till summer of 2013 supposedly, is the site of the often called 'Chilcot Inquiry', you will find these
24 November 2009 - Even before Bush's administration came to power an article written by his then national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, warned that "nothing will change" in Iraq until Saddam was gone
27 November 2009 - But there was a 'sea change' in attitude after the atrocities, with former national security adviser Condoleezza Rice targeting Iraq on the very day of the outrage.
30 November 2009 - George Bush tried to make a connection between Iraq and al-Qaida in a conversation with Tony Blair three days after the 9/11 attacks, according to Blair's foreign policy adviser of the time.
1 December 2009 - There was "a touching belief [in Washington] that we shouldn't worry so much about the aftermath because it was all going to be sweetness and light".
3 December 2009 - Boyce mentions the "dysfunctionalism" of Washington. He says that he would find himself briefing his American counterparts on what was happening in different parts of the US administration. Rumsfeld was not sharing information
Written Transcripts by Date of each session.
Oral Evidence by Date
Witnesses who have given oral evidence in public
Declassified Documents
And more, we still have nothing on what went on behind closed doors and may or may not with the final report, if and when it's released.
As to back then and forward from, it isn't only the guilty from them times but also:
DeJa-Vu: Country Continues to Fail in it's Responsibility
"If military action is worth our troops' blood, it should be worth our treasure, too; not just in the abstract, but in the form of a specific ante by every American." -Andrew Rosenthal 10 Feb. 2013
US failing on promises to veterans
Sequestration undercuts veterans, students
We talked last week about the effects of sequestration cuts on the military, which have already led to cuts in the Army's Tuition Assistance program, benefiting veterans looking for financial aid to get a college degree. It's not the only military program related to education hurting under the sequester.
On the 10-year anniversary of the start of the Iraq War, and scholarships for children of troops who died fighting in that conflict are being cut by thousands of dollars, thanks to sequestration.
The awards, called the Iraq and Afghanistan War Grants, go to undergraduate students whose moms or dads died "as a result of military service performed in Iraq or Afghanistan after the events of 9/11," according to the Department of Education.
Awards that have already been established are safe, but as of March 1, the dollar amount for each new grant is being reduced by 37.8 percent from what a student would have received last year. That means young adults will receive up to $2,133.81 less if they apply for a grant for the first time this year.
Remember, all of this is entirely unnecessary. Congress could just turn the sequester off and allow the deficit to shrink on its own. The Iraq and Afghanistan War Grants may have to cut under the damaging policy, but the policy itself doesn't have to happen.
But congressional Republicans see these cuts as a "victory," so they're inclined to leave them alone. read more>>>
{these related posts, below, are links back to my site for cuts and links to the reports or articles. You can visit but if you've been following the past couple of weeks you should already know the facts of.}
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"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." - Abraham Lincoln
"We are dealing with veterans, not procedure; with their problems, not ours." General Omar Bradley, First Administrator of the Veterans Administration
There has been only one Government Branch, Federal and States, that have been consistent these past four years, picking up what the U.S. Congress had started finally taking up on the Military their Families and All Veterans in the 110th and 111th, even with the obstruction then. That has been the Executive Branch, it's cabinet, like Labor and Housing and the DoD helping the Veterans Administration, and those directly around that branch. Congress, the peoples representatives, has done extremely little but lay blame on the VA and not themselves nor the Country, who have yet to Sacrifice, a decade plus!
Promises Kept: Ending the Iraq War and Supporting Our Service Members, Military Families and Veterans
{10th Anniversary of Iraq invasion} March 19, 2013 - Ten years ago my US Army unit was returning from our final training exercise in preparation for deploying in support of Operation Iraq Freedom. We listened intensely as President Bush announced the start of the war 10 years ago today, and my platoon prepared to deploy as part of the 1st Armored Division into the breach of battle. Within a few short weeks, my soldiers and I were rolling across the Kuwaiti border on our way to Baghdad to relieve the 3rd Infantry Division.
My soldiers and I spent most of the next 15 months based out of a Forward Operating Base on the banks of the Tigris River trying to bring stability to a chaotic and complex situation. We had a front row seat as the Iraqi's celebrated the capture of Saddam Hussein, but also felt the war turn as we went from eating dinners in the homes of everyday Iraqi's to fighting insurgents on the streets in places like Najaf. read more>>>
"Best - Ever": "We haven't had this kind of visibility from the White House ever." Joyce Raezer, military spouse - Dec. 30, 2011, and plenty more of similar since Joyce spoke