Posted on 03/20/2019 10:50:38 AM PDT by BadLands59
'16 years ago, the US illegally invaded Iraq, leaving a trail of destruction and lives lost,' said Congresswoman Ilhan Omar
WASHINGTON
U.S. lawmakers criticized the government Wednesday for its decision to invade Iraq 16 years ago, questioning the conflict’s legitimacy.
Politicians called the invasion disastrous, saying it led to the country’s destruction and affected America’s global standing.
"Sixteen years ago, the U.S. illegally invaded Iraq, leaving a trail of destruction and lives lost," Congresswoman Ilhan Omar said on Twitter.
Omar outlined the consequences of the invasion, saying 4,500 U.S. troops lost their lives, more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians were killed and the decision had done "incalculable damage” to America’s reputation in the world.
Senator Bernie Sanders also slammed the invasion, saying he had opposed it when the idea was proposed in Congress.
"Sixteen years ago, the United States invaded Iraq. I opposed it at the time, warning of unintended consequences. We are still dealing with those disastrous consequences today and will be for many years. We need a foreign policy that focuses on diplomacy, not war," Sanders tweeted.
In March 2003, the U.S. invaded Iraq. Then-President George W. Bush said the country’s goals were to destroy the country's weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and depose the country's leader, Saddam Hussein.
A year later, after U.S. forces defeated the Iraqi army and captured Hussein, the U.S. administration acknowledged that its argument of Iraq having WMDs was mistaken, with David Kay, a former U.S. weapons inspector, saying "we were almost all wrong".
"We must hold accountable those who repeatedly lied in the run-up to war," Omar said, arguing that both Bush and his vice president, Dick Cheney, had lied about WMDs in order to justify the invasion.
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there is a small army of FReepers who agree with them (retroactively) with all their heart.
you couldn’t find them with a microscope at the time, but they all claim that that they were “right on the iraq war” today.
The only thing we did wrong in the middle east and south Asia was and Islamic Africa is that we did not kill all the followers of Mohammed the Madman.
rut roh for her. She called out Cheney - this should be good.
I am proud to be one who was right at the time. Feel free to consult the FR archives.
On this, the ones who trashed America were Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, & Co.
adopting an obamite talking point <>”right at the time”.
Son, you have no clue what you’re talking about. FR sure has become stupid in these latter years.
if you don’t like it omar- you can always leave-
Illegally?
go “son” someone else, you pretentious jagoff.
history does not reveal the results of paths not chosen; you’re arguing in favor of a figment of your own imagination.
stupid article and supposed evidence. You think some one has some thing, but you don’t get to investigate more for about a year? No way to prove what was actually fact at the time of decision to go to war. why was war approved? money allocated? all those people are at fault if Omar wants to hold one person accountable she has to hold every last one involved - military personnel etc.
This is as ridiculous as so many Dem scandals where they shred all night or erase all before handing over computers or documents.
Very possible whatever WMDs were moved within the year before. Can’t just say there were none ever at all because noone can state that as fact.
You didn’t have to be a fortune teller to know that Bush was lying to when he spoke to the UN General Assembly about knowing what Saddam was up to and where he had the WMDs stashed. A lot of fine Americans — and a trillion dollars — would still be with us if the neocons (I see they’re trying to memory-hole that label) hadn’t conned us into that shameful catastrophe.
If asked without any prior time to prepare an answer - I doubt Omar could write down 10 things that make America the greatest country on Earth.
you’re right, you didn’t have to be a fortune teller, you had to either be a mind reader, or God. you’re neither.
the rest of your post is utterly indistinguishable from any number of identical rants on democraticunderground — so, I won’t bother to respond to talking points straight from barack obama’s playbook.
I would agree to the extent that we should have completely taken down saudi first. From there we could have looked around and said, “Who’s next?”
Yeah, that’s the ticket. I’m a deep-cover Obamanista, hiding out at FR for 20 years. Never busted till you flushed me out.
As I said — check the archives, if you want to know what kind of liberal you’re talking to. Or you can stay in your safe space and sling mindless insults. Your choice.
PS: this thread is pretty quiet, isn’t it? Mostly just you and me. Do you wonder why? Do you think there might be a large number of FReepers who’re red-faced at having been suckered 16 years ago and are even more chagrined to find that no one but this islamist chick is telling the truth about how we got played?
After all that yelping for thousands of lives destroyed and a $trillion pissed away, and the destruction of Christianity in its most ancient homeland, they don’t like hearing how badly we screwed up that part of the world, from an islamist who hates America — do they?
Politics makes strange bedfellows, doesn’t it?
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