Article: Stop Calling the Iraq War a "Mistake" | OpEdNews

22.6.14

Article: Stop Calling the Iraq War a "Mistake" | OpEdNews:



1) President Obama must tell us the truth about Iraq and the false scenario that caused us to go to war.
When
Obama took office in 2008, he announced that his administration would
not investigate or prosecute the architects of the Iraq War.
Essentially, he suspended public debate about the war. That may have
felt good in the short term for those who wanted to move on, but when
you're talking about a war initiated through lies, bygones can't be
bygones.


The unwillingness to confront the truth about the Iraq War has
induced a form of amnesia which is hazardous to our nation's health.
Willful forgetting doesn't heal, it opens the door to more lying. As
today's debate ensues about new potential military "solutions" to stem
violence in Iraq, let's remember how and why we intervened in Iraq in
2003.