Small comfort.
President Obama announced the official end of the Second Iraq War yesterday.
He made no mention of it being a “dumb war,” as he did as an Illinois Senator in 2002.
Nobody mentioned the lies that led up to our invading a country that was no threat to our own.
The New York Times barely paid notice. No mention of their role in willfully repeating the weapons of mass destruction justification of the Bush administration, knowing it wasn’t true.
There was no mention of the cost of US and Iraqi lives. For what?
Nine years.
Colin Powell didn’t show up at the United Nations to say he was sorry for