Category: Iraq War

John McCain is truly delusional. Yesterday on CNN with Wolf Blizer he was once again saying how he had the foresight to recommend the surge and that because of the surge the US is now winning the war in Iraq.

These are the wake up call headlines from an article today in the Washington Post:

“Suicide attacks kill 57 in Baghdad, Kirkuk”

Unfortunately, John McCain is beyond wake up calls. He is already basically brain dead. McCain is saying that the US will be able to soon leave Iraq because we have “won” the war. That “freedom and democracy” will be the order of the day in Iraq in a stable country. His comments only show how ignorant he is about the nature of the conflict in Iraq.

The history of Iraq over the past century has been violent and troubling. Its colonial legacy set it on a course that led to the rise of the Arab Baath Socialist Party and the rule of Saddam Hussein. In its short existence Iraq has been a nation irreconcilable to itself. The history of Iraq, Kuwait, Britain, and the United States reveals that the reasons for the Iraqi invasions of Kuwait and Iran are far more complex and interesting than the standard answer allows.

Over a period of decades, and especially in recent years, Britain and the U.S. have maintained an interest in Iraq and its neighbors for one over riding reason. Iraq sits squarely in the middle of the greatest oil producing region in the world.

President Used Propaganda To Push Iraq War

As President Bush’s second term in office nears an end former Whitehouse staffers are revealing what most people already know by now, that President Bush used propaganda and spin to push forward the invasion of Iraq.

With book deals bringing in millions these days and the President’s days in office numbered former administration officials seem far less reluctant to spill the beans than when they were “deceived” while in office.

In excerpts from a 341-page book to be released Monday, Scott McClellan, former Whitehouse press secretary, writes on Iraq that Bush “and his advisers confused the propaganda campaign with the high level of candor and honesty so fundamentally needed to build and then sustain public support during a time of war.”

“In this regard, he was terribly ill-served by his top advisers, especially those involved directly in national security,” McClellan wrote.