Public Comment

The US invasion of Iraq was the most catastrophic blunder in US history.

1. Claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction were completely false. The US Intelligence Agency produced false evidence which was later used by General Powell at an emergency session of the United Nations to justify the invasion of Iraq. Senator Byrd. of N. Carolina. impassioned speech, opposing the invasion. was ignored.

2. Prior to the invasion, the US had imposed crippling economic sanctions that resulted in the deaths of thousands of Iraqis, including 500,000 children.

3. Saddam Hussein was not responsible for the 9-11 attacks. 11 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis. Inexplicably, this was ignored by the GW Bush administration and the US media. 

4. The US Jewish lobby vehemently supported the invasion because of Saddam’s support for the Palestinians in Israel. 

5. Over 2 million Iraqis perished in the "shock and awe" invasion unleashed by the US military. Depleted uranium was used extensively, which resulted in hundreds of birth defects. 

6. Paul Bremer, the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority during the invasion, fired Saddam Hussein's highly disciplined Ba'athist army, which, seething with resentment, coalesced into the terror group, ISIS and its affiliates. 

7. Despite massive failures of the US military, from Vietnam to Afghanistan, Congress, both Democrats and Republicans, continue to reward them with record budget increases. 

8. Meanwhile, Julian Assange, who exposed US/UK war crimes, languishes in one of UK's maximum-security prisons awaiting a decision to extradite him to the US, where he faces another jail term of 175 years under the archaic Espionage Act.