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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFrom Michael Moore. "So today, Mosul fell...."
https://www.facebook.com/mmflint?fref=nfMichael Moore
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So today, Mosul fell. Mosul is the second largest city in Iraq. The Iraqi government we "installed", has now lost Fallujah, Ramadi, Mosul and other large swaths of the country we invaded at the cost of thousands of American lives, tens of thousands of Iraqi lives and a couple trillion dollars. (What could your school district do with a trillion dollars?).
One more maddening day in this 11-year illegal, immoral, greedy and stupid war. Today in Mosul, that Iraqi Army YOU pay for, freaked out, threw down their guns, and literally RAN away. I have friends and acquaintances who lost sons in all three of those cities. I can only imagine what they're feeling tonight. FOR WHAT? FOR WHAT! I am so sorry we couldn't do anything to stop this when it started. A few million of us tried. Last week, Richard Clarke, Bush's former head of counter-terrorism, said he now believes that his fellow members of the Bush administration committed "war crimes."
I continue to await the perp walk.
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From Michael Moore. "So today, Mosul fell...." (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jun 2014
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malaise
(269,255 posts)1. I continue to await the perp walk
+1,000
genwah
(574 posts)2. "What could your school district do with a trillion dollars?" No kidding.
Why are we engaged in "nation building" over there, when we need it over here?
Waiting For Everyman
(9,385 posts)3. Anybody who listened to Viet Nam combat vets
did not go, or let their kids go, to Iraq or Afganistan.
The fact is, VN vets who told everybody for years what happened to them, and what to expect next time, were largely IGNORED. They were told they were bullshitting, and in effect shoved aside. What's that saying about history repeating?
Well it did. So no surprise. None at all.