Sat 21 Jun 2014
They Belong in Prison, Not on TV
Posted by k under Civil Liberties , Globalization/EmpireNo Comments
William Rivers Pitt Truthout
I wrote my first article on the folly of an Iraq invasion in August of 2002. There are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, I argued. There are no 9/11 connections in Iraq. There is no al Qaeda presence in Iraq, because Saddam Hussein was notorious for hanging Wahabbists from the nearest available light pole. An invasion would tear the country apart, explode sectarian tensions, and plunge the region into chaos. (more…)