Iraq: Five years after the conquest
AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo
03/19/08
As we observe the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, I am sad — and angry — to report that we are on the brink of war yet again, this time with Iran. Sad for all the obvious reasons: the pointless, tragic deaths; the wanton destruction; the horrific costs of a few men’s hubris. And, yes, angry, because no one seems to have learned the lessons of the last war — not even those who said that if they knew then what they know now, they would never have supported or voted for war with Iraq...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12545
The only lesson we ever learn is that we never learn
Independent [UK]
by Robert Fisk
03/19/08
Five years on, and still we have not learnt. With each anniversary, the steps crumble beneath our feet, the stones ever more cracked, the sand ever finer. Five years of catastrophe in Iraq and I think of Churchill, who in the end called Palestine a ‘hell-disaster.’ But we have used these parallels before and they have drifted away in the Tigris breeze. Iraq is swamped in blood. Yet what is the state of our remorse? Why, we will have a public inquiry — but not yet! If only inadequacy was our only sin...
http://tinyurl.com/2mmlln
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=hubris
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/justin
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Fisk
by Justin Raimondo
03/19/08
As we observe the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, I am sad — and angry — to report that we are on the brink of war yet again, this time with Iran. Sad for all the obvious reasons: the pointless, tragic deaths; the wanton destruction; the horrific costs of a few men’s hubris. And, yes, angry, because no one seems to have learned the lessons of the last war — not even those who said that if they knew then what they know now, they would never have supported or voted for war with Iraq...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12545
The only lesson we ever learn is that we never learn
Independent [UK]
by Robert Fisk
03/19/08
Five years on, and still we have not learnt. With each anniversary, the steps crumble beneath our feet, the stones ever more cracked, the sand ever finer. Five years of catastrophe in Iraq and I think of Churchill, who in the end called Palestine a ‘hell-disaster.’ But we have used these parallels before and they have drifted away in the Tigris breeze. Iraq is swamped in blood. Yet what is the state of our remorse? Why, we will have a public inquiry — but not yet! If only inadequacy was our only sin...
http://tinyurl.com/2mmlln
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=hubris
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/justin
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Fisk
rudkla - 19. Mär, 10:39
