Ten years ago our "leaders" in the government, the corporate media, and the "national security" establishment assured us that invading Iraq was in our national interest. They promised us everything from "democracy" breaking out in the Middle East, to progress in ending the Israel-Palestine conflict, to the reduction of "terrorism" and having access to cheap oil. The American people, we were told, if they bore this burden would be rewarded in the long run with a safer world. Most of all they assured us that Iraq wouldn't become another Vietnam. An all-volunteer military force could meet the challenge, they promised, for relatively little cost in human lives and U.S. treasure.

But the whole thing was a very Big Lie.

And after throwing away so many lives and so much money we're now being told (by many of the same people who sold us the Iraq War) that we have no resources left to ensure that our children get a good education, or that our elderly can retire in dignity, or our poor people are given hope for a better future.

Posted by: robert feldman | Mar 19, 2013 5:55:24 AM

And yet Mixner would have us all hug Dick Cheney, the biggest war criminal in American history, because his daughter's a lesbian and he "supports" gay marriage.

Posted by: rikjake@gmail.com | Mar 19, 2013 12:11:34 PM