The U.S. has been at war with Iraq for twenty-four years.

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11. It's like being stuck in a corporate media horror version of Groundhog Day.

Every goddamn time, we're expected to act like we have never seen it before.

This is a superb post. I mean, superb:

And the U.S. government bears primary responsibility for the situation that has now arisen, in a multitude of ways:

by letting U.S. foreign policy be run by military contractors, arms dealers, big corporate interests and bloodthirsty geopoliticians claiming "realpolitik,"

by destroying the Iraqi nation in an unprovoked and imperialist war of aggression at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives,

by promoting the bloody civil wars and ethnic cleansing in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq,

by not cleaning house of the war criminals of 2003, but "looking forward,"

by the long alliance with the Gulf states, a coterie of repressive monarchical dictatorships that most recently have created and armed the "Islamic State" and crushed the "Arab Spring," as they have waged war historically on all democratic notions,

by arming and at times backing (and also betraying) nearly all of the various sides shooting at each other, such that claims of a CIA hand in the origins of IS and al-Qaeda itself are all too credible,

by always in a crunch preferring "our bastards" no matter how extremist to independent secular movements.

Thank you. Enough is enough.