The lead-up to war in 2003 was filled with spin and misinformation. But today,we aren’t even having the semblance of a debate about military intervention
We invaded Iraq 13 years ago on Sunday, but you would barely know from watching the news. Perhaps because there are so many war anniversaries these days it’s hard to maintain track, and perhaps,it’s because our country has learned virtually nothing from the biggest foreign policy debacle of our generation.
The US government celebrated the Iraq war anniversary by announcing that they were sending more troops to the country. Remember this is a war that supposedly “ended” more than three years ago, yet thousands of troops own been sent back there since late 2014 to fight Isis, and a group whose creation can be directly tied to the first Iraq war – or I guess the moment one,depending on how you count.
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Source: theguardian.com