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2. The Iraq war killed a million, cost us 4 trillion, ruined alliances
Fri Feb 16, 2018, 12:08 PM
Feb 2018

The Iraq war not only caused many war deaths, the damaged health care system will have deadly consequences for decades. Turkey was perhaps our best ally, always helping us. Turks just loved Americans, treated them like movie stars when they (me too) visited. Now we are divided. We will be paying medical costs for our wounded for decades.

And WMDs? We classified 25 year old artillery shells, useless, as weapons of mass destruction to scam us into thinking they were a threat. And our govt knew the defectors talking to Judith Miller were liars. Our CIA based on defector claims gave UN inspectors sites to inspect, to test the claims. In about 100 such inspections there was never a single confirmation. We knew they were lying. The bio lab underneath Saddam Hussein hospital? It did not exist, just dirt under the hospital. Condi Rice is a super smart cookie who always knew what reporters would ask and she always was ready, 3 steps ahead of them. As Clinton once said in a different context she could talk a dog off a meat truck.

And just keeping Clinton taxes would have paid off the entire national debt.

Invading not for defense is a war crime. So far Trump not as bad.

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