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Back In Iraq: We Only Want To Save You
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Back-In-Iraq-We-Only-Want-by-Danny-Schechter-Civilization_Military_Military_Responsibility-140814-935.htmlBack In Iraq: We Only Want To Save You
By Danny Schechter
General News 8/14/2014 at 17:10:03
New York, New York: Welcome back to Iraq--complete with our ever present WMD's --- Weapons of Mass deception.
Suddenly, the country we never wanted to have to think about again is back in the news and on our military agenda. So, after a few denials that troops would not, never, and no way be sent, sure'nuff, U.S, boots are back on the ground, but to play a very different "mission."
Of course, it's not combat, assures Secretary of Defense Hagel who was wearing his tennis clothes when he met with GIs. That is, no doubt, why we are pounding that country with bombs again.
To signal that we are not back in the days of the war for Iraqi Freedom, the Pentagon announced its latest humanitarian effort with a tweet, that, in the media world we are now part of, maybe the equivalent of a whimper not a neocon bark.