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To go one step deeper into the most significant policy decision in post-WWII American history, please see the plans laid out in 1997 by Dick Cheney, Donald Rums

To go one step deeper into the most significant policy decision in post-WWII American history, please see the plans laid out in 1997 by Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle, and Paul Wolfowitz - the geniuses at The Project for a New American Century. [0] > In open letters to Clinton and GOP congressional leaders the next year, the group called for "the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime from power" and a shift toward a more assertive U.S. policy in the Middle East, including the use of force if necessary to unseat Saddam. > And in a report just before the 2000 election that would bring Bush to power, the group predicted that the shift would come about slowly, unless there were "some catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor." > That event came on Sept. 11, 2001. By that time, Cheney was vice president, Rumsfeld was secretary of defense, and Wolfowitz his deputy at the Pentagon. [1] This information seems to have left our collective consciousness. Please remember this history and pass it on. We owe this to the thousands of US service members and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who were killed due to the decisions made by these specific men. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_C... [1] https://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=128491 https://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=128491

sillywalk 3y ago
Joe Biden, Five Years Before Invasion, Said the Only Way of Disarming Iraq Is “Taking Saddam Down” At a 1998 Senate hearing, Biden argued that “taking this son of a — taking Saddam down" was the only way to guarantee Iraq’s disarmament. " https://theintercept.com/2020/01/07/joe-biden-iraq-war-history/ https://theintercept.com/2020/01/07/joe-biden-iraq-war-histo...
- consumer451 3y ago
  Biden and HRC's votes are inexcusable. When Obama first ran for President, having voted no on the invasion was the litmus test. That's one of the reasons he jumped ahead in the running. We all knew it was a giant mistake at that point. Now history is being revised. I have recently heard an active US Admiral on YT say "it's the best intelligence we had at the time." No, it was devoid of actually intel. As criminal as the Russian invasion of Ukraine, minus most of the ethnic cleansing. The USA lost so much global goodwill. It was soooo stupid and unnecessary. Arguably the end of Pax Americana.
  - sillywalk 3y ago
    War is a Racket - Smedley Butler Over 80 percent of four-star retirees are employed in defense industry[0]. Biden continues the bipartisan tradition of putting Defense Contractors in top posts.[0] Lloyd Austin was on the board of Raytheon. "Before Austin, another person with ties to Raytheon, the contractor’s chief lobbyist Mark Esper, held the reins of the Pentagon. Esper’s predecessors, Patrick Shanahan and James Mattis, had respectively been a senior vice president at Boeing and a board member of General Dynamics. Ellen Lord, the former president and CEO of Textron Systems, oversaw the Pentagon’s weapon acquisitions. ... Frank Kendall, chosen by Biden to lead the Air Force. Kendall, a former vice president at Raytheon who served as Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics for President Barack Obama, has spent the last few years as an adviser and consultant to defense contractors. Kendall’s disclosures show that the bulk of his income has come from advising Northrop Grumman, followed by income from Renaissance Strategic Advisors, an investment firm that arranges mergers and acquisitions in the defense sector."[1] [0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/10/04/retired-generals-defense-contractors/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/10/04/... [1] https://theintercept.com/2021/05/28/biden-pentagon-defense-contractors/ https://theintercept.com/2021/05/28/biden-pentagon-defense-c...

sillywalk 3y ago

Joe Biden, Five Years Before Invasion, Said the Only Way of Disarming Iraq Is “Taking Saddam Down” At a 1998 Senate hearing, Biden argued that “taking this son of a — taking Saddam down" was the only way to guarantee Iraq’s disarmament. " https://theintercept.com/2020/01/07/joe-biden-iraq-war-history/ https://theintercept.com/2020/01/07/joe-biden-iraq-war-histo...

consumer451 3y ago
Biden and HRC's votes are inexcusable. When Obama first ran for President, having voted no on the invasion was the litmus test. That's one of the reasons he jumped ahead in the running. We all knew it was a giant mistake at that point. Now history is being revised. I have recently heard an active US Admiral on YT say "it's the best intelligence we had at the time." No, it was devoid of actually intel. As criminal as the Russian invasion of Ukraine, minus most of the ethnic cleansing. The USA lost so much global goodwill. It was soooo stupid and unnecessary. Arguably the end of Pax Americana.
- sillywalk 3y ago
  War is a Racket - Smedley Butler Over 80 percent of four-star retirees are employed in defense industry[0]. Biden continues the bipartisan tradition of putting Defense Contractors in top posts.[0] Lloyd Austin was on the board of Raytheon. "Before Austin, another person with ties to Raytheon, the contractor’s chief lobbyist Mark Esper, held the reins of the Pentagon. Esper’s predecessors, Patrick Shanahan and James Mattis, had respectively been a senior vice president at Boeing and a board member of General Dynamics. Ellen Lord, the former president and CEO of Textron Systems, oversaw the Pentagon’s weapon acquisitions. ... Frank Kendall, chosen by Biden to lead the Air Force. Kendall, a former vice president at Raytheon who served as Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics for President Barack Obama, has spent the last few years as an adviser and consultant to defense contractors. Kendall’s disclosures show that the bulk of his income has come from advising Northrop Grumman, followed by income from Renaissance Strategic Advisors, an investment firm that arranges mergers and acquisitions in the defense sector."[1] [0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/10/04/retired-generals-defense-contractors/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/10/04/... [1] https://theintercept.com/2021/05/28/biden-pentagon-defense-contractors/ https://theintercept.com/2021/05/28/biden-pentagon-defense-c...