Iraq war was lost; stay out in peace

 

It is reprehensible that some of the same mendacious neocons that lied and fear-mongered America into a criminal war against Iraq 11 years ago are once again polluting the airwaves with calls for more military intervention there now that the Sunni-Shi'ite sectarian conflict we ignited is tearing Iraq apart. Senators John McCain and Lindsay Graham popped up with their lies about how we won the war till Obama pulled out in 2011. They both conveniently omit that former president George W. Bush signed the exit order before Obama took office and Obama couldn't forge an extension because the Iraqi government wisely demanded Iraqi justice for American soldiers who commit crimes there as part of the extension. We never won a thing in Iraq and we were unceremoniously kicked out. We've also been forced to endure equally nefarious members of the Bush war cabinet Paul Bremer and Paul Wolfowitz. Bremer was the guy who dismissed the Iraqi army sending hundreds of thousands into the street without jobs but with weapons. Wolfowitz ludicrously bragged how the Iraq war could be prosecuted on the cheap, costing no more than a mere 30 billion. Several trillion later he's still deemed worthy enough to pontificate about how we must jump back in. Nearly every day we're subjected to chief media neocon Bill Kristol once again call for more warfare when he never made a sensible and valid assessment of the Iraq war he's championed for 11 years now. Before long we may see the likes of Bush war criminals Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice weighing in a feeble attempt salvage their reputations irrevocably scarred by war crimes.

But most shame must be reserved to the mainstream media who give these warmongers a forum to spew their endless calls for more war to justify their decade long litany of murderous malfeasance. We can only prevent getting involved in more senseless, unwinnable warfare if we push back by the tens of millions. This is not and never should be a spectator sport for Joe Sixpack. He must understand that if his eyes glaze over and he turns away from the impending Iraq Disaster Redux, he will be enabling the same dark forces who unleashed this catastrophe 11 years ago. The war was lost. Go in peace.