Biden today is stating the obvious facts that most Americans who aren't blinded by tea-bag idiocy have realized for a long time. The Iraq War was a huge mistake that has cost America on more than one front:
Vice President Joe Biden says the Iraq war hasn't been worth its "horrible price."
He says the war was mishandled from the outset and that the U.S. took its eye off the ball. As a result, he says the U.S. was left in a more dangerous position in Afghanistan, where al-Qaida hatched the Sept 11 attacks.
Biden tells NBC's "Meet the Press" that the war also has cost the United States support from other nations.
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However, despite the dire numbers which tell the full magnitude of the mistake, Biden remained hopeful that some progress has been made in that unjust war and predicted that 90,000 American troops may return home soon from that theatre:
Still, Biden predicts Iraq will have successful parliamentary elections next month and he says the U.S. is likely to bring home some 90,000 combat troops by the end of the summer.
More than 4,370 U.S. military personnel have died in Iraq since former President George W. Bush ordered the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 to overthrow Saddam Hussein. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have been wounded or killed.
While all this is very nice to hear, I think that this Administration should take it one step further. We have seen how well over 4000 of our young folks have been killed, and hundreds of thousands of people all totaled have either died, or had their lives destroyed by this fiasco. While the human loss is bad enough, it is compounded by over a trillion dollars of wasted American treasure that is desperately needed back here at home for our own land and people now.
It is time we got to the bottom of how all this happened and brought criminal charges against those who perpetrated this great costly and murderous hoax. Most Americans realize now that they were lied to by the previous administration in a ploy to get an illegal war in a country that did not attack us and to ram what would have been widely unpopular measures such as the Patriot Act and FISA law down our throats.
A criminal investigation needs to be launched into the former administrations actions after 9-11 that led up to the fiasco known as the Iraq War. The fact that we were lied to for a political agenda and thousands of people have now died should be a wake-up call to all Americans that they must demand justice. If we allow the Bush Administration to get away with all they did in launching a propoganda campaign against our country causing much death and sadness then we not only deny justice to our own dead but to the world as well.
Added to that, if we allow these criminals to go unpunished, we set a very dangerous precedent for our country and future generations. If Presidents and people in government know that they face little repercussions for illegal activity and lying to the American people then future administrations will realize if they are not getting their way all they have to do is cook up a crisis and hit the American people with a huge propoganda blitz to get what they want. They will be safe in knowing they will face little consequences for doing so as long as they hide behind the veil of "National Security".
Lies are lies no matter who tells them. When they are lies that murder, and waste American treasure under the pretext of lies they should be prosecuted to the fullest. Since attempts at bi-partisanship are stalling miserably in Washington it is time to start a partisan war and expose the Republicans for what they are. Lying, greedy little people who cared little for life or justice as long as they got the failed agenda they sought and were able to finally steal the Constitutional freedoms from the American people they long held in scorn. We should expose the truth not only for justice, but to insure that such a thing never happens again.
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