Absolutely Nothing: A Veteran’s Savage Indictment of the Iraq War

[Botany]

Nice Rant by combat vet from Iraq ...... link @ bottom

It’s not freedom for the Iraqi people, despite the war’s idiotic name.
It sure isn’t regional stability.
It’s not the end of terrorism or the near universal hatred of America in the Middle East.
And now that Halliburton and KBR and Blackwater and Dick Cheney have made their billions and cashed out, it isn’t even about long-term economic investments and American business.

http://aattp.org/absolutely-nothing-a-veterans-savage-indictment-of-the-iraq-war/

[HassleCat]

1. It did accomplish one thing

It destabilized the region and enabled the birth of ISIS. We might not consider that a good thing, but I'm sure some people do.

[Botany]

2. It also made a 39.5 billion $ profit for KBR who then moved their home office to the UAE.

It also did this too.

According to the U.S. Department of Defense, between 2001 and 2014 some 230,000 soldiers and veterans were identified as suffering from so-called mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), mostly as a result of exposure to blast events. The variety of symptoms associated with the condition—headache, seizures, motor disorders, sleep disorders, dizziness, visual disturbances, ringing in the ears, mood changes, and cognitive, memory, and speech difficulties—the fact that they resemble symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and the fact that exposure to blast events often was not logged in the early years of the campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq make it impossible to pin down casualty figures.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/healing-soldiers/blast-force.html


HassleCat

But some of the Architects and some of those who sold us the war are seen every Sunday on "news shows"
telling us that it is all Obama's fault.

[bahrbearian]

3. K&R

I like his writing style , reminds me of the Rude Pundit