...than 4,000 cannon fodder soldiers. And Republicans rarely even refer to soldiers as human beings. In their version of Newspeak, soldiers are invariably referred to as "boots on the ground." Meh, it doesn't matter to Republicans if we lose a few thousand "boots on the ground." We'll just send some more over there. After all, they're just "boots." And the Republicans will cry a few more crocodile tears.
Republicans have spent $4.6 million so far on the Benghazi investigation and have taken 72 weeks, more than the Watergate investigation. How long did they take to investigate the intelligence relied on to get us to go into the war in Iraq that cost 4,000 lives unnecessarily?-- Modified on 11/3/2015 6:45:44 PM
...about it from a link in one of Laffy's posts below. Chalabi is the man most responsible for giving cover to shit-for-brains Dubya's desire to invade Iraq. Chalabi had not lived in Iraq since he left as a 14 year-old in 1958 but Bush relied on Chalabi's "knowledge" of Saddam to convince the world that Saddam had WMD.
I spit on Chalabi's grave and I'd spit in Bush's face if he was standing in front of me for his bullshit invasion of Iraq which has thrown the entire Middle East into turmoil.
...............and deceived the world’s most powerful nation into launching a disastrous war at a cost of trillions of dollars and nearly 5,000 American lives. He deceived Cheney, Rumsfield and many of the Neo-Conservatives in Washington, who then convinced George Bush, AKA Capt Simpleton, to invade a sovereign nation on flimsy evidence of WMD. These same idiots now want us to start another war in the Middle East.
Gen Anthony Zinni On Ahmed Chalabi:
Rather than risking an open-ended political process that Americans could influence but not control, they wanted to be able to limit the Iraqis’ power and handpick those Iraqis who would participate. … You had the impression that some in the Office of the Vice President and DOD reps were writing Chalabi’s name over and over again in their notes, like schoolgirls with their first crush.
...to be deceived so they could then deceive the American people in order to go to war with Iraq.
Cheney, et.al., stovepiped Screwball's, er, Curveball's unvetted information and had Colin Powell give a speech full of bullshit to the UN in order to gin up the war.
"...when (Curveball) is told “we went to war in Iraq on a lie. And that lie was your lie,” he responds, only: “Yes.”