Iraq and Afghan War Inquiries

Iraq War Inquiry: Chilcot to be Questioned by Brit MP's

2016-10-12T08:06:00.001-04:00

Iraq Inquiry: Sir John Chilcot to face MPs' questions

11 October 2016 - MPs will question the chairman of the Iraq War Inquiry later this month for the first time since it published its official report in July.
Former civil servant Sir John Chilcot will appear before MPs on the Commons Liaison Committee on 18 October.
The report, which took seven years to complete, criticised Tony Blair and his government's case for going to war in 2003.
Mr Blair defended his actions, saying military action had been justified.
The Chilcot Inquiry, which began its work in 2009, after UK troops left Iraq, did not attempt to reach a verdict on the legality or otherwise of the military action.
Mr Blair has continued to insist the decision to remove Saddam Hussein was justified, although he has acknowledged that the intelligence on which it was based was flawed. read more>>>

"It's a shame Brian Williams will be the only person ever punished for lying about Iraq"

The Country ran from any and all Accountability, Domestically and Internationally, throughout but especially as the Bush regime was leaving, even allowing it's rubber stamping conservative congresses to maintain control and then take over, states included, as Extremely quickly as they did the Missions and those sent to Accomplish after 9/11!! Leaving everything they did and twisted leagalities, making lawful that which the US had led the World in making unlawfull, to do on the table!!

And now Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl after the Whole Country Abandoned the Missions and those sent to Accomplish, and still haven't paid for either nor the long term results from and that includes the VA their responsibility, so extremely quickly after 9/11!!
Command Sergeant Major: No Troops Died Searching for Bergdahl

Australians Understand What American Led Iraq War Policies Created

* * * CIA Torture: Read the Senate Intelligence Committee report * * *

In a Democracy: 'Citizens must know what is done in their name'

Pres. Bush: “Prisoners of war must at all times be humanely treated”

Blackwater Security Guards Handed Lengthy Sentences For Iraqi Killings

Human rights groups call for special prosecutor to investigate CIA torture

22 December 2014 - The ACLU and Human Rights Watch say the offences amount to ‘a vast criminal conspiracy’ and are ‘shocking and corrosive’ to US democracy and credibility read more>>>

* * * Seeds of ISIL Planted By Bush/Cheney and Conservative Congresses * * *

"Without the Iraq War There Would be No Islamic State"

Aug 8, 2015 - IS Top Command Dominated by Ex-Officers in Saddam's Army

* * * The British Iraq War Inquiry * * * Released will carry private communications between GWBush and TBlair, like this already released: TB said there was a danger the Tories would see this as their chance to get rid of him … Bush said they would make it clear to the Tories that if they moved to get rid of TB "we will get rid of them".

Brit Report into Iraq War will Be Published in June or July 2016

* * * Iraq War Promoted Terrorism Rather Than Reducing It * * * 24 April 2014 - Britain’s involvement in the Iraq War promoted terrorism rather than reducing it and was a “strategic failure”, according to a major new report which estimated the cost of all UK conflicts since the end of the Cold War.
The Royal United Services Institute said the UK could face a bill of nearly £65bn, once the cost of long-term care for injured veterans was factored in, with most of the money was spent on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The study, called Wars in Peace, said both conflicts were largely “strategic failures” for the UK, The Guardian reported."

Facts: Matthew Hoh {former Marine and foreign service officer in Afghanistan}: "We spend a trillion dollars a year on national security in this country."
"And when you add up to the Department of Defense, Department of State, CIA, Veterans Affairs, interest on debt, the number that strikes me the most about how much we're committed financially to these wars and to our current policies is we have spent $250 billion already just on interest payments on the debt we've incurred for the Iraq and Afghan wars." 26 September 2014

Bob Herbert "Losing Our Way" : "And then the staggering costs of these wars, which are borne by the taxpayers. I mean, one of the things that was insane was that, as we're at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bush administration cut taxes. This has never been done in American history. The idea of cutting taxes while you're going to war is just crazy. I mean, it's madness." Bill 'Moyers and Company': Restoring an America That Has Lost its Way 10 Oct. 2014

$14 Million An Hour: War Costs Top $1.6 Trillion Since 9/11, Say Congressional Researchers

December 22 2014 - American taxpayers have shelled out roughly $1.6 trillion on war spending since 9/11, according to a new report from Congress’ nonpartisan research arm. That’s roughly $337 million a day -- or nearly a quarter million dollars a minute -- every single day for 13 years. read more>>>

DeJa-Vu: “With no shared sacrifices being asked of civilians after Sept. 11", Decades and War From, All Over Again!!

Chris Hayes MSNBC: "If you can run a deficit to go to war, you can run a deficit to take care of the people who fought it" In response to Republican opposition to expanding Veterans' benefits on fiscal grounds

Neither of these recent wars have yet been paid for, let alone the results from, including the long ignored or outright denied existence of, till this Administrations Cabinet and Gen Shinseki, only Government branch consistent for the past six years, issues! As well as under deficits most of the, grossly under funded, VA budget is still borrowed thus added, problem creating, costs that shouldn't exist!

Unsavoury Legacy of the Iraq Conflict

2016-10-01T15:43:00.002-04:00

General Sir Lord Dannatt: 'Going to Iraq was an error of near biblical proportions'

Lord Dannatt, former Chief of the General Staff CREDIT: DAVID ROSE
1 OCTOBER 2016 - General the Lord Dannatt is sitting at the head of a spacious boardroom table in Millbank House, searching for words. Beyond him, out of the window is a vista of Parliament Square where on March 20, 2003, thousands gathered to march against the invasion of Iraq.
Today he admires the view, but the war in Iraq is something that until recently Lord Dannatt has not been able to take in from a particularly removed perspective. As Chief of the General Staff between 2006 and 2009, and prior to that Commander in Chief Land Command, he was embroiled in the key decisions around the six-year military mission in which 179 British troops lost their lives.
It has been a year in which the unsavoury legacy of the Iraq conflict has been a mainstay of the news. In July, the conclusion of the Chilcot Inquiry delivered a damning verdict on the decision to take Britain to war. Earlier this month, too, the Ministry of Defence was forced to pay thousands of pounds in compensation to former Army officer Rachel Webster, who was left traumatised when she was arrested by officers working for the Iraq Historic Allegations Team (IHAT), a controversial government unit set up in 2010 to investigate alleged abuses by service personnel during the war. The case followed that of three Army veterans who face prosecution for manslaughter over the death of an Iraqi teenager in 2003.
“The Webster case was appalling and I’m delighted she has been compensated, but that these historic abuse inquiries have been put together at all.” Lord Dannatt says, resolutely echoing the view of numerous veterans, MPs and campaigner groups. “To have these wide-ranging inquiries in to what are repeatedly turning out to be wholesale, fallacious accusations is undermining for morale and the Army’s effectiveness. In the future soldiers will feel inhibited in doing what they think is right for fear of retrospective investigation, and that is incredibly dangerous.”
He admits there are times when errors are made in conflict, but believes any wrongdoing should be dealt with internally. read more>>>

"It's a shame Brian Williams will be the only person ever punished for lying about Iraq"

And now Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl after the Whole Country Abandoned the Missions and those sent to Accomplish, and still haven't paid for either nor the long term results from and that includes the VA their responsibility, so extremely quickly after 9/11!!
Command Sergeant Major: No Troops Died Searching for Bergdahl

Australians Understand What American Led Iraq War Policies Created

* * * CIA Torture: Read the Senate Intelligence Committee report * * *

In a Democracy: 'Citizens must know what is done in their name'

Pres. Bush: “Prisoners of war must at all times be humanely treated”

Blackwater Security Guards Handed Lengthy Sentences For Iraqi Killings

Human rights groups call for special prosecutor to investigate CIA torture

22 December 2014 - The ACLU and Human Rights Watch say the offences amount to ‘a vast criminal conspiracy’ and are ‘shocking and corrosive’ to US democracy and credibility read more>>>

* * * Seeds of ISIL Planted By Bush/Cheney and Conservative Congresses * * *

"Without the Iraq War There Would be No Islamic State"

Aug 8, 2015 - IS Top Command Dominated by Ex-Officers in Saddam's Army

Brit Report into Iraq War will Be Published in June or July 2016

$14 Million An Hour: War Costs Top $1.6 Trillion Since 9/11, Say Congressional Researchers

December 22 2014 - American taxpayers have shelled out roughly $1.6 trillion on war spending since 9/11, according to a new report from Congress’ nonpartisan research arm. That’s roughly $337 million a day -- or nearly a quarter million dollars a minute -- every single day for 13 years. read more>>>

DeJa-Vu: “With no shared sacrifices being asked of civilians after Sept. 11", Decades and War From, All Over Again!!

Iraq War Inquiry: American Congressional Version of Brit's Chilcot Report?

2016-09-29T06:37:00.000-04:00

Don't hold your breath, we don't do 'accountability', especially the conservative elements within, on issues where it should be 'Demanded' by the People!!

Hell we, especially in these times and new century, don't even pay, two tax cuts with especially for the wealthy who reap more wealth from investments in, for war, results from the policies, and DeJa-Vu the Veterans from!!

We need—and deserve—an American version of the Brits’ Chilcot Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 - By Lt. Col. Amy McGrath, USMC - Three months ago, the British Government released findings from the independent investigative committee charged with examining the decision to invade Iraq in 2003, known unofficially as the Chilcot Report. The British investigation meticulously examined its government’s public statements and actions crosschecking them with declassified information like intelligence reports and minutes of their high-level cabinet meetings. The British had enough courage to officially critique their own decisions leading up to this war. We need to do the same.
Unlike some investigative reports created by the U.S. Congress, the Chilcot Report contains an objective, thoughtful, and thorough accounting of British decision-making. The Iraq War is widely considered a strategic failure, with 4,806 American and coalition members deaths and 32,246 wounded, not to mention the deaths of an estimated 500,000 Iraqi fighters and civilians – a conservative number by any measure, and all at a monetary cost of over $3 Trillion. The American people are entitled to a similar exhaustive inquiry.
Let’s put this in context. The U.S. Congress has conducted seven investigations, held 33 hearings, and spent almost $7million examining every facet of the disaster in Benghazi, Libya, in which four Americans were killed. Shouldn’t we spend at least as much to examine how this nation decided to go to war under what we now know were potentially false pretenses and assumptions?
While individual scholars have analyzed the decision-making events, the U.S. government itself has never commissioned any detailed analysis of the path that our government took leading up to the war. Given the lives lost, families destroyed, cultures in turmoil, and money expended, such a government-run analysis should be mandated. The 911 Commission report exhaustively investigated the lessons learned with that national security tragedy. However, the only “official” analysis of Iraq was the Iraq study group back in 2006 and it did not delve into the details of the initial decision to go to war. Instead, its focus was on the deteriorating security situation in Iraq at the time. After 13 years, it’s well beyond time for the U.S. to examine how and why the American people were duped into supporting this invasion and full-scale occupation of a sovereign state, an action squarely against historic American principles and international law. read more>>>

"It's a shame Brian Williams will be the only person ever punished for lying about Iraq"

And now Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl after the Whole Country Abandoned the Missions and those sent to Accomplish, and still haven't paid for either nor the long term results from and that includes the VA their responsibility, so extremely quickly after 9/11!!
Command Sergeant Major: No Troops Died Searching for Bergdahl

Australians Understand What American Led Iraq War Policies Created

* * * CIA Torture: Read the Senate Intelligence Committee report * * *

In a Democracy: 'Citizens must know what is done in their name'

Pres. Bush: “Prisoners of war must at all times be humanely treated”

Blackwater Security Guards Handed Lengthy Sentences For Iraqi Killings

Human rights groups call for special prosecutor to investigate CIA torture

22 December 2014 - The ACLU and Human Rights Watch say the offences amount to ‘a vast criminal conspiracy’ and are ‘shocking and corrosive’ to US democracy and credibility read more>>>

* * * Seeds of ISIL Planted By Bush/Cheney and Conservative Congresses * * *

"Without the Iraq War There Would be No Islamic State"

Aug 8, 2015 - IS Top Command Dominated by Ex-Officers in Saddam's Army

Brit Report into Iraq War will Be Published in June or July 2016

$14 Million An Hour: War Costs Top $1.6 Trillion Since 9/11, Say Congressional Researchers

December 22 2014 - American taxpayers have shelled out roughly $1.6 trillion on war spending since 9/11, according to a new report from Congress’ nonpartisan research arm. That’s roughly $337 million a day -- or nearly a quarter million dollars a minute -- every single day for 13 years. read more>>>

DeJa-Vu: “With no shared sacrifices being asked of civilians after Sept. 11", Decades and War From, All Over Again!!

Powell, Straw Relieved Brexit Distracted From U.K. Iraq War Inquiry Release

2016-09-14T05:37:00.001-04:00

In Leaked Emails, Iraq War Architect Expressed Relief That Brexit Distracted From U.K. War Inquiry

13 Sept. 2016 - Newly leaked emails show how a key U.K. architect of the Iraq war expressed relief that the “Brexit” vote to leave the European Union would reduce media coverage of the devastating results of an inquiry into the United Kingdom’s role in the the war.
On July 4, former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw emailed former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell to discuss the upcoming release of the Chilcot Report– a document detailing the British government’s inquiry. The report probed, among other things, the depth of private British commitment and support for the American-led war in Iraq.

In anticipation of coming press coverage, Straw asked Powell to review a statement in a Word document he drafted. He wrote that the “only silver lining of the Brexit vote is that it will reduce medium term attention on Chilcot — thought it will not stop the day of publication being uncomfortable.”
Powell told Straw he should also share the statement with Condoleezza Rice, and that he would contact Richard Armitage — two other Bush-era officials who were involved in planning and executing the war.
He showed skepticism towards a part of Straw’s statement which claimed that an additional United Nations resolution prior to the conflict would have avoided the invasion. He wrote back to Straw, “I can’t disagree or disagree with your judgement that a second resolution would have prevented conflict. I doubt it, but I don’t know.” (In Straw’s final statement released to the press, the claim remained.) read more>>>

* * * Brit Iraq War Inquiry Report * * *

"It's a shame Brian Williams will be the only person ever punished for lying about Iraq"

And now Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl after the Whole Country Abandoned the Missions and those sent to Accomplish, and still haven't paid for either nor the long term results from and that includes the VA their responsibility, so extremely quickly after 9/11!!
Command Sergeant Major: No Troops Died Searching for Bergdahl

Australians Understand What American Led Iraq War Policies Created

* * * CIA Torture: Read the Senate Intelligence Committee report * * *

In a Democracy: 'Citizens must know what is done in their name'

Pres. Bush: “Prisoners of war must at all times be humanely treated”

Blackwater Security Guards Handed Lengthy Sentences For Iraqi Killings

Human rights groups call for special prosecutor to investigate CIA torture

22 December 2014 - The ACLU and Human Rights Watch say the offences amount to ‘a vast criminal conspiracy’ and are ‘shocking and corrosive’ to US democracy and credibility read more>>>

* * * Seeds of ISIL Planted By Bush/Cheney and Conservative Congresses * * *

"Without the Iraq War There Would be No Islamic State"

Aug 8, 2015 - IS Top Command Dominated by Ex-Officers in Saddam's Army

Brit Report into Iraq War will Be Published in June or July 2016

$14 Million An Hour: War Costs Top $1.6 Trillion Since 9/11, Say Congressional Researchers

December 22 2014 - American taxpayers have shelled out roughly $1.6 trillion on war spending since 9/11, according to a new report from Congress’ nonpartisan research arm. That’s roughly $337 million a day -- or nearly a quarter million dollars a minute -- every single day for 13 years. read more>>>

DeJa-Vu: “With no shared sacrifices being asked of civilians after Sept. 11", Decades and War From, All Over Again!!

When Americans, equally guilty, Run From Accountability for War Crimes..................

2016-09-04T14:15:00.000-04:00

In 2003 some 72% of Americans fully supported the Abandoning of the Missions and those Sent to Accomplish, So Extremely Quickly, after 9/11!!

Iraqi Woman Uses Chilcot Report in War Crimes Lawsuit Against George W. Bush

04 September 2016 - Sundus Saleh, an Iraqi woman, first filed her lawsuit against George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice and Paul Wolfowitz in September 2013. Alleging that the Iraq War constituted an illegal crime of aggression, Saleh filed the suit on behalf of herself and other Iraqis in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.
The district court dismissed Saleh's lawsuit in December 2014, saying the defendants acted within the scope of their employment when they planned and carried out the Iraq War. Saleh then appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

In her appeal, Saleh is arguing that the Bush officials were acting from personally held convictions that the US should invade Iraq, regardless of any legitimate policy reasons, and that theyknowingly lied to the public when they fraudulently tied Saddam Hussein to al-Qaeda and the threat of weapons of mass destruction.
Inder Comar, Saleh's lawyer, explained, "Nuremberg held that domestic immunity was not a defense to allegations of international aggression. Everything the Germans did was legal under the law. We are asking the Ninth Circuit to reject the application of domestic immunity in this case, in line with the holdings of Nuremberg."
On July 22, Saleh urged the Ninth Circuit to take judicial notice of portions of the Chilcot Report, which makes factual conclusions about the run-up to the Iraq War. A court can take judicial notice of a fact that is not subject to reasonable dispute and can be accurately and readily determined from sources whose accuracy cannot be reasonably questioned. That includes public records, such as reports issued by a commission of inquiry.
The report was published by the Iraq Inquiry Committee, an independent committee established by the British government, on July 6, 2016, after six years of investigation, research and drafting.
Here are four of the excerpts from the report that Saleh has submitted to the court for judicial notice: read more>>>

"It's a shame Brian Williams will be the only person ever punished for lying about Iraq"

And now Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl after the Whole Country Abandoned the Missions and those sent to Accomplish, and still haven't paid for either nor the long term results from and that includes the VA their responsibility, so extremely quickly after 9/11!!
Command Sergeant Major: No Troops Died Searching for Bergdahl

Australians Understand What American Led Iraq War Policies Created

* * * CIA Torture: Read the Senate Intelligence Committee report * * *

In a Democracy: 'Citizens must know what is done in their name'

Pres. Bush: “Prisoners of war must at all times be humanely treated”

Blackwater Security Guards Handed Lengthy Sentences For Iraqi Killings

Human rights groups call for special prosecutor to investigate CIA torture

22 December 2014 - The ACLU and Human Rights Watch say the offences amount to ‘a vast criminal conspiracy’ and are ‘shocking and corrosive’ to US democracy and credibility read more>>>

* * * Seeds of ISIL Planted By Bush/Cheney and Conservative Congresses * * *

"Without the Iraq War There Would be No Islamic State"

Aug 8, 2015 - IS Top Command Dominated by Ex-Officers in Saddam's Army

Brit Report into Iraq War will Be Published in June or July 2016

$14 Million An Hour: War Costs Top $1.6 Trillion Since 9/11, Say Congressional Researchers

December 22 2014 - American taxpayers have shelled out roughly $1.6 trillion on war spending since 9/11, according to a new report from Congress’ nonpartisan research arm. That’s roughly $337 million a day -- or nearly a quarter million dollars a minute -- every single day for 13 years. read more>>>

DeJa-Vu: “With no shared sacrifices being asked of civilians after Sept. 11", Decades and War From, All Over Again!!

Iraq War Inquiry: Mil. Family Lawyers Combing Released Report

2016-08-18T06:46:00.000-04:00

Crowd-funding pays for lawyers to comb Chilcot report for Blair guilt over Iraq

17 August 2016 - The father of a British soldier killed in the Iraq War has said the "fight goes on" to pursue possible legal action against Tony Blair.
Reg Keys, whose son Tom Keys died in 2003, said lawyers were now "drilling down" into the 2.6 million page Chilcot report after a successful £150,000 crowd-funding campaign to pay for the crucial legal work.
The Iraq War Families Campaign Group launched the fundraiser on July 19 and despite passing its target, money has continued to roll in, now totalling £159,000 from more than 5,100 donors.
That cash is funding a forensic legal analysis of the Chilcot report, to establish whether a case could be brought against Mr Blair or other senior British officials "who might have acted unlawfully or in excess of their powers".
Mr Keys, who has led the campaign with fellow bereaved father Roger Bacon, said: "We're hopeful the next time you see us, it'll be at the Royal Courts of Justice to bring a civil prosecution over this debacle." read more>>>

“The fix is in”: How the Blair Government Helped U.K. Companies Profit From the Iraq War

August 15 2016 - Declassified documents from the lead-up to war show oil, gas and other corporations scrambling to capitalize on Iraq. >>>>

"It's a shame Brian Williams will be the only person ever punished for lying about Iraq"

And now Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl after the Whole Country Abandoned the Missions and those sent to Accomplish, and still haven't paid for either nor the long term results from and that includes the VA their responsibility, so extremely quickly after 9/11!!
Command Sergeant Major: No Troops Died Searching for Bergdahl

Australians Understand What American Led Iraq War Policies Created

* * * CIA Torture: Read the Senate Intelligence Committee report * * *

In a Democracy: 'Citizens must know what is done in their name'

Pres. Bush: “Prisoners of war must at all times be humanely treated”

Blackwater Security Guards Handed Lengthy Sentences For Iraqi Killings

Human rights groups call for special prosecutor to investigate CIA torture

22 December 2014 - The ACLU and Human Rights Watch say the offences amount to ‘a vast criminal conspiracy’ and are ‘shocking and corrosive’ to US democracy and credibility read more>>>

* * * Seeds of ISIL Planted By Bush/Cheney and Conservative Congresses * * *

"Without the Iraq War There Would be No Islamic State"

Aug 8, 2015 - IS Top Command Dominated by Ex-Officers in Saddam's Army

Brit Report into Iraq War will Be Published in June or July 2016

$14 Million An Hour: War Costs Top $1.6 Trillion Since 9/11, Say Congressional Researchers

December 22 2014 - American taxpayers have shelled out roughly $1.6 trillion on war spending since 9/11, according to a new report from Congress’ nonpartisan research arm. That’s roughly $337 million a day -- or nearly a quarter million dollars a minute -- every single day for 13 years. read more>>>

DeJa-Vu: “With no shared sacrifices being asked of civilians after Sept. 11", Decades and War From, All Over Again!!

Brit 'Iraq War Inquiry': 'Iraq Out & Loud'

2016-08-09T08:04:00.000-04:00

Entire Chilcot Report reading to begin at Edinburgh Fringe with readers Ian Rankin,Stewart Lee and Al Murray

8 Aug. 2016 - It will by far the longest single Fringe show of the festival season, a marathon reading of one of the landmark publications of the year by a cast of thousands.
A reading of the Chilcot Report into the UK's entry into the war in Iraq, 2.6m words long, is to be read by more than 2000 people at the festival, reading continuously from beginning to end.
The organisers of the reading are Fringe veterans Bob Slayer and Omid Djalili, inspired by an idea by comedian Boothby Graffoe.
They have approached former Prime Minister Tony Blair, as well as the report's author, Sir John Chilcot, to take part in the mass reading.
Well known readers of the report will include Ian Rankin, Mr Djalili, Stewart Lee, Reg D Hunter, Mark Thomas, Dead Friedman, Tommy Sheppard MP, Jo Caulfield among many others.
The reading starts at 6pm today, Monday August 8, until the end it reached - Mr Slayer thinks it will take two weeks.
Mr Slayer said that the report will be read "straight", and "respectfully, humbly and relentlessly."
The organisers have launched an appeal for more readers to sign up via iraqoutloud.com. read more>>>

The world the Iraq war made

August 06, 2016 - With the land of the two rivers, Iraq and Syria, now a wasteland of human suffering and rubble, the Report of the Iraq Inquiry, commonly known as the Chilcot report (after its chairman, Sir John Chilcot), has aimed to help explain how we got here. Now that it has detailed the extent of British culpability in the 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq, those implicated in the report's findings are using two arguments to refute it.
The first, offered by former Prime Minister Tony Blair, that the world would be much worse today had Iraqi President Saddam Hussein been left in power. The second is that invading Iraq would have succeeded but for a lack of post-invasion planning, which allowed for the mayhem that followed.
The second argument has some truth to it. But the first argument is surely false – a desperate attempt at reputation management by those responsible for a disastrous decision. read more>>>

"It's a shame Brian Williams will be the only person ever punished for lying about Iraq"

And now Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl after the Whole Country Abandoned the Missions and those sent to Accomplish, and still haven't paid for either nor the long term results from and that includes the VA their responsibility, so extremely quickly after 9/11!!
Command Sergeant Major: No Troops Died Searching for Bergdahl

Australians Understand What American Led Iraq War Policies Created

* * * CIA Torture: Read the Senate Intelligence Committee report * * *

In a Democracy: 'Citizens must know what is done in their name'

Pres. Bush: “Prisoners of war must at all times be humanely treated”

Blackwater Security Guards Handed Lengthy Sentences For Iraqi Killings

Human rights groups call for special prosecutor to investigate CIA torture

22 December 2014 - The ACLU and Human Rights Watch say the offences amount to ‘a vast criminal conspiracy’ and are ‘shocking and corrosive’ to US democracy and credibility read more>>>

* * * Seeds of ISIL Planted By Bush/Cheney and Conservative Congresses * * *

"Without the Iraq War There Would be No Islamic State"

Aug 8, 2015 - IS Top Command Dominated by Ex-Officers in Saddam's Army

Brit Report into Iraq War will Be Published in June or July 2016

$14 Million An Hour: War Costs Top $1.6 Trillion Since 9/11, Say Congressional Researchers

December 22 2014 - American taxpayers have shelled out roughly $1.6 trillion on war spending since 9/11, according to a new report from Congress’ nonpartisan research arm. That’s roughly $337 million a day -- or nearly a quarter million dollars a minute -- every single day for 13 years. read more>>>

DeJa-Vu: “With no shared sacrifices being asked of civilians after Sept. 11", Decades and War From, All Over Again!!

SACRIFICE??

2016-07-31T06:47:00.001-04:00

@realDonaldTrump #madealotofsacrifices Sacrifice?: For Wars-'0' For Blowback From Policies-'0' For Veterans Of-'0'

Made Wealth off Defense War Investments-$$$+++ Making Wealth off Blowback From the Policies-$$$+++ Wants To Make Wealth off All Privatized VA-$$$+++

"If military action is worth our troops’ blood, it should be worth our treasure, too — not just in the abstract, but in the form of a specific ante by every American." -Andrew Rosenthal 10 Feb. 2013

“We are dealing with veterans, not procedures—with their problems, not ours.” —General Omar Bradley, First Administrator of the Veterans Administration

Chris Hayes : "If you can run a deficit to go to war, you can run a deficit to take care of the people who fought it" In response to Republican, long ago lost as the party of Lincoln and not just as to us Veterans, opposition to expanding Veterans' benefits on fiscal grounds

Sen. Bernie Sanders told Conservatives: “If you can’t afford to take care of your veterans, than don’t go war. These people are bearing the brunt of what war is about, We have a moral obligation to support them.” February, 26th, 2014

"It's a shame Brian Williams will be the only person ever punished for lying about Iraq"

And now Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl after the Whole Country Abandoned the Missions and those sent to Accomplish, and still haven't paid for either nor the long term results from and that includes the VA their responsibility, so extremely quickly after 9/11!!
Command Sergeant Major: No Troops Died Searching for Bergdahl

Australians Understand What American Led Iraq War Policies Created

* * * CIA Torture: Read the Senate Intelligence Committee report * * *

In a Democracy: 'Citizens must know what is done in their name'

Pres. Bush: “Prisoners of war must at all times be humanely treated”

Blackwater Security Guards Handed Lengthy Sentences For Iraqi Killings

Human rights groups call for special prosecutor to investigate CIA torture

22 December 2014 - The ACLU and Human Rights Watch say the offences amount to ‘a vast criminal conspiracy’ and are ‘shocking and corrosive’ to US democracy and credibility read more>>>

* * * Seeds of ISIL Planted By Bush/Cheney and Conservative Congresses * * *

"Without the Iraq War There Would be No Islamic State"

Aug 8, 2015 - IS Top Command Dominated by Ex-Officers in Saddam's Army

Brit Report into Iraq War will Be Published in June or July 2016

$14 Million An Hour: War Costs Top $1.6 Trillion Since 9/11, Say Congressional Researchers

December 22 2014 - American taxpayers have shelled out roughly $1.6 trillion on war spending since 9/11, according to a new report from Congress’ nonpartisan research arm. That’s roughly $337 million a day -- or nearly a quarter million dollars a minute -- every single day for 13 years. read more>>>

DeJa-Vu: “With no shared sacrifices being asked of civilians after Sept. 11", Decades and War From, All Over Again!!

Iraq: As Brit Mil. Families Seek Accountability Gov Christie Has RNC Mock Trial

2016-07-20T08:28:00.001-04:00

And the Bush Admin and Republican Congresses aren't the Defendant's! Revisionist history continues strong run, especially on everything GWB and Cheney with strong Conservative backing of!!

As Christie holds RNC mock Hillary trial many in Country first thoughts, as it has been on almost all attacks on President Obama and continued Clinton, Hillary now, attacks these recent years, Brit 'Iraq War Inquiry' verdicts and not just many but most in rest of World as well!!

Jul 19th 2016 - Crowd goes wild as Chris Christie holds mock trial for Hillary Clinton

Chilcot report: Iraq war families crowdfund legal costs

Families of some of the British troops killed in Iraq have launched a public crowdfunding appeal to pay for lawyers to potentially sue those responsible.

19 July 2016 - The Iraq War Families Campaign Group wants to raise £150,000 to fund legal work, including analysing the 12-volume Chilcot report on the Iraq war inquiry.
They hope to assess whether people who made mistakes, such as former PM Tony Blair, can be pursued in civil courts.

The report did not make any findings on whether individuals acted unlawfully.
However, it rejected the legal basis for UK military action, and said Mr Blair overstated the threat posed by then-President of Iraq Saddam Hussein and sent ill-prepared troops into battle.
There was no "imminent threat" from Saddam - and the intelligence case was "not justified", Sir John Chilcot, the ex-civil servant who chaired the inquiry, said.
The report highlighted a catalogue of errors in political and military decision-making, including: read more>>>

19 July 2016 - At Trump’s Convention, It’s George W. Bush’s Legacy That’s On Trial

19 July 2016 - Report: Bush worried he would be 'last Republican president'

20 July 2016 - Families of British troops killed in Iraq raise £70,000 in a DAY to fund legal action against Tony Blair Anyone wanting to back the families' campaign can donate at The Iraq War Families Campaign Group

"It's a shame Brian Williams will be the only person ever punished for lying about Iraq"

And now Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl after the Whole Country Abandoned the Missions and those sent to Accomplish, and still haven't paid for either nor the long term results from and that includes the VA their responsibility, so extremely quickly after 9/11!!
Command Sergeant Major: No Troops Died Searching for Bergdahl

Australians Understand What American Led Iraq War Policies Created

* * * CIA Torture: Read the Senate Intelligence Committee report * * *

In a Democracy: 'Citizens must know what is done in their name'

Pres. Bush: “Prisoners of war must at all times be humanely treated”

Blackwater Security Guards Handed Lengthy Sentences For Iraqi Killings

Human rights groups call for special prosecutor to investigate CIA torture

22 December 2014 - The ACLU and Human Rights Watch say the offences amount to ‘a vast criminal conspiracy’ and are ‘shocking and corrosive’ to US democracy and credibility read more>>>

* * * Seeds of ISIL Planted By Bush/Cheney and Conservative Congresses * * *

"Without the Iraq War There Would be No Islamic State"

Aug 8, 2015 - IS Top Command Dominated by Ex-Officers in Saddam's Army

Brit Report into Iraq War will Be Published in June or July 2016

$14 Million An Hour: War Costs Top $1.6 Trillion Since 9/11, Say Congressional Researchers

December 22 2014 - American taxpayers have shelled out roughly $1.6 trillion on war spending since 9/11, according to a new report from Congress’ nonpartisan research arm. That’s roughly $337 million a day -- or nearly a quarter million dollars a minute -- every single day for 13 years. read more>>>

DeJa-Vu: “With no shared sacrifices being asked of civilians after Sept. 11", Decades and War From, All Over Again!!

Brit 'Iraq War Inquiry': Tragic Lessons Never Learned

2016-07-12T12:54:00.002-04:00

And as a Vietnam Vet I can attest to the promises made by the Americans served, in their poser patriotic fervor, that they quickly forgot all they said they'll never forget and, DeJa-Vu, including the few who served them, that continues!!! This time not only on one front but in two, redoing same, as they quickly abandoned the missions and those sent to accomplish after a direct attack on the Country, another lesson so quickly forgotten!!

The Chilcot report reveals everything we’ve forgotten since 1945

More than 70 years after the second world war, the Chilcot report shows us that governments driven by ideology are doomed to make the same mistakes
12 July 2016 - In September 1945, the US produced a seminal document called the Strategic Bombing Survey. Air power had been used during the second world war in unprecedented ways and there was a need to reflect on it and learn lessons. The breadth and extent of the survey, which operated from London, was almost beyond comprehension. The forward to the survey states: “Germany was scoured for its war records, which were found sometimes, but rarely, in places where they ought to have been; sometimes in safe-deposit vaults, often in private houses, in barns, in caves; on one occasion, in a hen house and, on two occasions, in coffins.”
The Chilcot report took seven years to complete and cost an estimated £10.3m. But the Strategic Bombing Survey cost more. “It was necessary, in many cases,” they explained, “to follow closely behind the front; otherwise, vital records might have been irretrievably lost. Survey personnel suffered several casualties, including four killed.”
The survey’s summary used the term “lesson to be learned” only once in a section called Of the Future: “The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.”
The report continued by detailing what those best efforts would entail. read more>>>

"It's a shame Brian Williams will be the only person ever punished for lying about Iraq"

And now Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl after the Whole Country Abandoned the Missions and those sent to Accomplish, and still haven't paid for either nor the long term results from and that includes the VA their responsibility, so extremely quickly after 9/11!!
Command Sergeant Major: No Troops Died Searching for Bergdahl

Australians Understand What American Led Iraq War Policies Created

* * * CIA Torture: Read the Senate Intelligence Committee report * * *

In a Democracy: 'Citizens must know what is done in their name'

Pres. Bush: “Prisoners of war must at all times be humanely treated”

Blackwater Security Guards Handed Lengthy Sentences For Iraqi Killings

Human rights groups call for special prosecutor to investigate CIA torture

22 December 2014 - The ACLU and Human Rights Watch say the offences amount to ‘a vast criminal conspiracy’ and are ‘shocking and corrosive’ to US democracy and credibility read more>>>

* * * Seeds of ISIL Planted By Bush/Cheney and Conservative Congresses * * *

"Without the Iraq War There Would be No Islamic State"

Aug 8, 2015 - IS Top Command Dominated by Ex-Officers in Saddam's Army

Brit Report into Iraq War will Be Published in June or July 2016

$14 Million An Hour: War Costs Top $1.6 Trillion Since 9/11, Say Congressional Researchers

December 22 2014 - American taxpayers have shelled out roughly $1.6 trillion on war spending since 9/11, according to a new report from Congress’ nonpartisan research arm. That’s roughly $337 million a day -- or nearly a quarter million dollars a minute -- every single day for 13 years. read more>>>

DeJa-Vu: “With no shared sacrifices being asked of civilians after Sept. 11", Decades and War From, All Over Again!!

American Vets Seek 'Iraq War Inquiry', Brit Mil. Families Seek to Sue Blair

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MARCH 24, 2003 - Seventy-Two Percent of Americans Support War Against Iraq Extremely quickly abandoning the Missions and Those sent to Accomplish, once again with no conscious guilt in doing and with, poser, patriotic flags a wavin, after 9/11!!

* * * The British Iraq War Inquiry * * *

UK’s investigation into Iraq invasion is ‘example of what we could do with political courage’, says codirector of Iraq Veterans against the War

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But the response to Chilcot, which supported allegations that the invasion helped spawn terrorist groups like Islamic State, was muted in the US. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, a prominent not-for-profit group, did not have a comment on the report.

US veterans on Chilcot: we need our own inquiry to avoid repeating mistakes

9 July 2016 - Following the devastating British inquiry into the 2003 invasion of Iraq, American veterans and their families have warned that the US is liable to repeat the mistakes without a similarly comprehensive investigation.
The UK’s Chilcot inquiry was released on Wednesday, and while it is no secret in the US that the invasion was a failure, nothing so damning as the 2.6m-word British inquiry has been released by an independent US government body.
“The Chilcot report is an example of what we could do if there was any kind of political courage to reckon with the after-effects of the global war on terror that we were pushed into,” said Matt Howard, who was deployed to Iraq twice while serving in the marine corps.
Congressional reports have shown that the US invasion was based on faulty intelligence, but none were as crushing as Chilcot, which provoked the mother of a British soldier killed in the war to declare former British prime minister Tony Blair the “world’s worst terrorist”.
The inquiry found that President George W Bush and his aides exaggerated intelligence to make a case for invading Iraq, and that planning and preparations for Iraq after Saddam were “wholly inadequate”.
“The fact that we haven’t done a report like that – and there haven’t been any moves to do that – makes it a whole hell of a lot more likely that we are going to go right down the same road and make the same mistakes we did less than 13 years ago,” said Howard. read more>>>

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3 July 2016 - Brit 'Iraq War Inquiry' 6 July 2016: American 'Accountability' For Iraq, Hell NO!!

Accountability in America for policies supported and followed, especially by those who needed to and willingly did rubber stamped the wants for the policies 'Done In All Our Names', what's that!!

The Country ran, even before the Bush admin left office, from any and all 'accountability', 'Done In Our Names'!! Left everything done on the table, except the illegal torture and secret very costly in many ways CIA prisons disbanded policies not by the people but by the incoming Obama administration, then quickly started attacking that new administration for the continued use of!!

The extremely rapid abandoning of the Missions and those sent to Accomplish after 9/11 gave rapid spread and rise of the al Qaeda ideologies blowback, especially helped by the equally rapid and rising hatreds by extremists, so called, christians in America, meme's, books, FOX speak and even slanderous blasphemy movies of not the extremist Muslims but the whole of Islam, and done in 'gods' name!! Which gave rise to, most would label even more extremist and unstable, ISIL Deadly Extremism, replacing al Qaeda!!

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Chilcot report: Tony Blair could be sued for 'every penny' by families of soldiers killed in Iraq War

'Chilcot gives us a lot of threads to pursue and those threads make a powerful rope to catch him'
8 July 2016 - The families of soldiers killed in Iraq have vowed to sue Tony Blair for “every penny”.
The former prime minister could face a civil lawsuit over allegations the abused his power to take the country to war following the publication of the Chilcot report on Wednesday.
Sir John Chilcot concluded that Mr Blair had overstated the case for military action in March 2003 as there was “no imminent threat” posed by Saddam Hussein and it was not the “last resort”.
He also said the planning for the post-war clean up was “inadequate” and said there was not strong enough evidence to suggest Hussein had weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).
He stopped short of declaring the war illegal but a source close to the families told the Daily Telegraph said the report provided legal grounds for the lawsuit.
The source said: “It gives us a lot of threads to pursue and those threads make a powerful rope to catch him”. read more>>>

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January 14, 2004 - The Bush administration began planning to use U.S. troops to invade Iraq within days after the former Texas governor entered the White House three years ago, former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill told CBS News' 60 Minutes.

27 November 2009 - Blair and a deal signed in blood: PM and Bush had secret plan to topple Saddam, says envoy But there was a 'sea change' in attitude after the atrocities, with former national security adviser Condoleezza Rice targeting Iraq on the very day of the outrage.He said: 'On 9/11 itself I had a telephone conversation and I said, "Who do you think did it?" She said, "There's no doubt it was an Al Qaeda operation".'At the end of the conversation she said, "We're just looking at the possibility that there could be any link to Saddam Hussein".' >>>

30 November 2009 - Chilcot inquiry hears Bush began Iraq war drumbeat three days after 9/11

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Iraq War: What happened to some of the West's key decision-makers

Some took up art, others went in to academia, while quite a few took highly paid consultancy jobs
7 July 2016 - George Bush’s vice president and alter ego was one of the hardliners who pushed him into invading Iraq. Since 2009, he has constantly turned up on television as a critic of Barack Obama.
In May, he was one of the first Republican grandees to declare his support for Donald Trump. read more>>>

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The Cheney and surrounding friends, both in and out of government but especially in, continued doing what they did during the whole Bush administration, laughing and patting each other on the backs, and continue doing so, as they watched the continued cha ching ringing up their offshore wealth wall street wealth vaults, knowing their names would rarely, if ever, be mentioned in the history books including that about, the extremely quick abandoning of the missions and those sent after 9/11, the two wars, OEF and OIF. That would all be bared on the GW Bush shoulders, though he doesn't worry either, in his eyes he's finally a success, as measured by wealth, just look at the trump types, especially in daddy's eyes. No more trying to live up to family standards set and collapsing a number of endeavors only to have daddy and friends of bail him out and prop him back up, he's still reaping from the policies they followed. And with two huge tax cuts to boot, with plenty more coming and with more added perks since because they're a part of them 'job creators' as their wealth builds!!

The co-conspirators, the republican rubber stamping congresses with their full support FOX speak base, have continually sought to scrub reality from history in many ways while also using a favorite, attack a Clinton, this time, again, costing tax payers dearly, as to Bengazi and e-mails. Keeping it going, even after rulings on and nothing from them, to deflect!

They actually got a gift with the killings of two more black americans and then five police officers shot and killed in Dallas. While once again the initial killings that apparently set up the Dallas bundy farm style sniper attack cheered on by republican supporters who then came out with bluelivesmatter, not to them as the bundy militia was targeting law enforcement even at the bird sanctuary recently, the NRA went silent especially as to the legal carry and registered and doing what a law abiding gun owner should, informing a police officer who had stopped them for a traffic violation so a deadly incident wouldn't arrise, it did and with a child in the car watching it all, gun first pointed at then multiple shots fired into car and gun owner!!

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When Blair met Bush: how the UK went to war in Iraq

The story of how the UK got embroiled in the conflict looks a little different following the publication of the Chilcot report
9 July 2016 - Tuesday 2 April 2002 was a warm spring day, the first after the Easter weekend. The country was coming to terms with the death of the Queen Mother, a young singer called Gareth Gates had shot to No 1 and Admiral Lord Boyce, chief of the defence staff, was heading to Buckinghamshire for a meeting with the prime minister at Chequers.
A submariner in his early career, colleagues thought Boyce rather prickly, a trait cabinet minister Clare Short attributed to the long periods he had spent underwater.
Certainly, his summons to see Tony Blair seemed to have left him a little nonplussed. British forces were already deployed in Afghanistan, which was his priority. And though he had heard talk in the press and around Whitehall about a shift in interest towards Iraq, he wasn’t one for gossip or small talk.
Blair, however, wanted to chat about Saddam Hussein. “I guess my presence at Chequers on that particular occasion was simply … if there were questions coming up about what could be done militarily; what was our capability should we be asked to do something,” Boyce explained to the Chilcot inquiry.
If there had been a significant hardening of thinking in Downing Street, Boyce appeared to have left Chequers none the wiser. As far as he was concerned, attacking Iraq just wasn’t on the cards. read more>>>

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6 July 2016 - Brit 'Iraq War Inquiry': 'Crushing verdict on Blair and the Iraq war'

6 July 2016 - British 'Iraq War Inquiry'

6 July 2016 - Brit 'Iraq War Inquiry': 'I will be with you, whatever'

7 July 2016 - Brit 'Iraq War Inquiry': Public Accountability Wishes a 'Happy 70th' GWB

Brit 'Iraq War Inquiry': Public Accountability Wishes a 'Happy 70th' GWB

2016-07-07T07:14:00.000-04:00

MARCH 24, 2003 - Seventy-Two Percent of Americans Support War Against Iraq

Did you think many, not just in America but on the World stage, would forget your big day! And not offer up a lasting, reality history already written but up to 6 July 2016 not as very public testimony and related reality facts, present that can be viewed and studied long into the future, your legacy!! The rest of that, yours and the conservative republicans ideologies, legacy is also well known!! And remember, cheney and company and the repub congressional enablers will be mentioned only in passing if at all and they knew that going in!!

* * * The British Iraq War Inquiry * * * Accountability in America for policies supported and followed, especially by those who needed to and willingly did rubber stamped the wants for the policies 'done in All our names', what's that!!

The extremely rapid abandoning of the Missions and those sent to Accomplish after 9/11 gave rapid spread and rise of the al Qaeda ideologies blowback, especially helped by the equally rapid and rising hatreds by extremists, so called, christians in America, meme's, books, FOX speak and even slanderous blasphemy movies of not the extremist Muslims but the whole of Islam, and done in 'gods' name!! Which gave rise to, some would label even more extremist and unstable, ISIL Deadly Extremism, replacing al Qaeda!!

Tony Blair is right: without the Iraq war there would be no Islamic State

No matter how the FOX speak Republicans, very complicent in Iraq and extremely quickly abandoning Afghanistan and bin Laden's al Qaeda policies, continue the long established, propagandizing, standard of scrubbing reality, like with the release of the Bengazi Congressional report just days prior to, so many months and so much people's capital spent on, or the now FOX speak screaming about Hillary's email server, even though the bush admin used, and scrubbed, RNC servers and Rice and Powell used private email accounts for their Secretary of State correspondence, you all fail to mention, 'Reality' stands above propaganda and conspiracy!! Didn't think you all could do it but in wiping the Bush years from your 'reality' you actually picked and support someone even worse, Trump!

George W Bush Just Got the Worst 70th Birthday Present Imaginable

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) - July 6 2016 - Happy birthday, Mr President… here’s a 12-volume report tearing your signature foreign policy to shreds. read more>>>

Setting up the policy even before 9/11! As they were getting intel on who carried out the 9/11 plane attacks, al Qaeda and once CIA asset and friend of the Country bin Laden, they were getting set up to sell, FOX speak media obliged in growing louder war drum beating, what they really sought, to take out another once CIA asset, helped by to become Iraq's leader, and friend of America's power brokers, political and commercial, especially on the Conservative side of the political ideologies, Saddam!!

Chilcot report: What Blair said to Bush in memos

6 July 2016 - Memos sent by former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair to then US President George W Bush in the run-up to the Iraq War shine a light on the extent of the relationship between the two leaders.
The memos sent between 2001 and 2007 were released alongside Sir John Chilcot's report of his inquiry into the Iraq War. Mr Bush's replies were not included in the report.
'Better to act now'
Tony Blair to George Bush, 12 September 2001

In one of the oldest notes to be released, sent the day after the attack on New York's Twin Towers, Mr Blair offered his support to bring to justice the hijackers and looked ahead to the "next stage after this evil".
Mr Blair said some would "baulk" at the measures necessary to control "biological, chemical and other weapons of mass destruction", but added: "We are better to act now and explain and justify our actions than let the day be put off until some further, perhaps even worse catastrophe occurs."
'We need to deal with Saddam'
Tony Blair to George Bush, 11 October 2001 read more>>>

Drip, drip, drip, "He recalled noting that: "the dog didn't bark - it grizzled." Don't forget - this 'grizzling' for regime change was 6 months BEFORE 9/11."". drip, drip, drip, "But there was a 'sea change' in attitude after the atrocities, with former national security adviser Condoleezza Rice targeting Iraq on the very day of the outrage.", drip, drip, drip, "George Bush tried to make a connection between Iraq and al-Qaida in a conversation with Tony Blair three days after the 9/11 attacks, according to Blair's foreign policy adviser of the time.", drip, drip, drip, "There was "a touching belief [in Washington] that we shouldn't worry so much about the aftermath because it was all going to be sweetness and light".", drip, drip, drip, "Boyce mentions the "dysfunctionalism" of Washington. He says that he would find himself briefing his American counterparts on what was happening in different parts of the US administration. Rumsfeld was not sharing information", drip, drip, drip...........!

January 14, 2004 - The Bush administration began planning to use U.S. troops to invade Iraq within days after the former Texas governor entered the White House three years ago, former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill told CBS News' 60 Minutes.

27 November 2009 - Blair and a deal signed in blood: PM and Bush had secret plan to topple Saddam, says envoy

But there was a 'sea change' in attitude after the atrocities, with former national security adviser Condoleezza Rice targeting Iraq on the very day of the outrage.He said: 'On 9/11 itself I had a telephone conversation and I said, "Who do you think did it?" She said, "There's no doubt it was an Al Qaeda operation".'At the end of the conversation she said, "We're just looking at the possibility that there could be any link to Saddam Hussein".' >>>

30 November 2009 - Chilcot inquiry hears Bush began Iraq war drumbeat three days after 9/11

3 July 2016 - Brit 'Iraq War Inquiry' 6 July 2016: American 'Accountability' For Iraq, Hell NO!!

6 July 2016 - Brit 'Iraq War Inquiry': 'Crushing verdict on Blair and the Iraq war'

6 July 2016 - British 'Iraq War Inquiry'

6 July 2016 - Brit 'Iraq War Inquiry': 'I will be with you, whatever'

Brit 'Iraq War Inquiry': 'I will be with you, whatever'

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Tony Blair told George Bush 'I will be with you, whatever' months before joining Iraq War, Chilcot report reveals

6 July 2016 - Those were the opening words of Mr Blair's 'Note on Iraq' to the White House in July 2002
Almost like a lover promising to be faithful 'till death us do part', Tony Blair promised George Bush: “I will be with you, whatever.”
It has long been rumoured the Prime Minister had promised something of the sort during his private dealings with the US President , though not everyone believed it. read more>>>

29 private letters between Tony Blair and George Bush to be published in Iraq Inquiry

6 July 2016 - TWENTY-NINE previously secret letters between former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George Bush in the lead up to the Iraq war will be made public on Wednesday.
The correspondence will be published as part of the Iraq Inquiry led by Sir John Chilcot and dubbed the “Chilcot report”.
The 2.6 million-word report, which is four times the length of War and Peace, has taken seven years to produce.
It was launched in 2009 to discover Britain’s role in the Iraq war and was tasked with investigating exactly what led to the 2003 invasion led by the US and the subsequent occupation of Iraq.
The controversial war did not have approval from the UN Security Council and was based on the assumption that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction which was later proved to be unfounded.
The letters will make up just some of the hundreds of classified documents set to be released which will show exactly what leaders were thinking behind the scenes. read more>>>

Chilcot Report: Bereaved families say Tony Blair is ‘the world's worst terrorist’ and we want to see him in court

Relatives of servicepeople killed in Iraq are looking to use the report as the basis for legal action – with Tony Blair one of their main targets
6 July 2016 - Tony Blair has been called “the world’s worst terrorist” by one of the families of the 179 British servicepeople killed in Iraq, moments after they heard Sir John Chilcot finally deliver his verdict on the Iraq War.
After Sir John delivered a summary of his findings, Sarah O'Connor, whose brother Sergeant Bob O'Connor died in Iraq in 2005, fought back tears as she said: "There is one terrorist that the world needs to be aware of and his name is Tony Blair, the world's worst terrorist."
She was speaking at a press conference called by some of the bereaved families, who had loudly applauded Sir John as he finished delivering his summary.
The families made clear that they would now be considering legal action in light of the findings of the 2.6-million-word, 12-volume report – and Tony Blair would be one of their main targets. read more>>>

Chilcot report: Intelligence on WMDs exaggerated to justify going to war, inquiry finds

Tony Blair's statements on Iraq's military capabilities 'were presented with a certainty that was not justified', Sir John Chilcot has said

6 July 2016 - A deliberate policy of exaggeration and omission in the intelligence over Saddam Hussein’s supposed weapons of mass destruction paved the way for the invasion of Iraq: this was the damning conclusion of Sir John Chilcot’s report.
The Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), which produced the now notorious dossier claiming that Iraq had nuclear, chemical and biological warfare capabilities broadly produced what Tony Blair’s government wanted to hear. And, it remained silent when the Prime Minister even ignored what caveats there were in the dossier to make his case for war.
“In the House of Commons on 24 September 2002, Mr Blair presented Iraq’s past, current and future capabilities as evidence of the severity of the potential threat from Iraq’s WMD” stated Sir Chilcot.
“He said that, at some point in the future, that threat would become a reality. The judgments about Iraq’s capabilities in that statement, and in the dossier published the same day, were presented with a certainty that was not justified… It is now clear that policy on Iraq was made on the basis of flawed intelligence and assessments. They were not challenged, and they should have been.” read more>>>

British 'Iraq War Inquiry'

Brit 'Iraq War Inquiry': 'Crushing verdict on Blair and the Iraq war'

Brit 'Iraq War Inquiry' 6 July 2016: American 'Accountability' For Iraq, Hell NO!!

British 'Iraq War Inquiry'

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I have yet gone through the, now, updated web site, started as the inquiry began and added to during and after, to see if anything was scrubbed. It did carry all the very public testimony, video's and all, and added intelligence that was unclassified, for public consumption, over time, including closed door meetings. Including the damning, public, testimony as to the British counterparts here in America that should have triggered, along with so much more, Accountability and Inquiries into here in the, no longer, United States!

Welcome to the website of the Iraq Inquiry

The Report of the Iraq Inquiry was published on 6 July 2016. Sir John Chilcot's public statement can be read here.
From the links on this page you can access the Executive Summary and the Report, search the supporting documents and review transcripts and recordings of the original hearings.

Brit 'Iraq War Inquiry' 6 July 2016: American 'Accountability' For Iraq, Hell NO!!

"It's a shame Brian Williams will be the only person ever punished for lying about Iraq"

And now Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl after the Whole Country Abandoned the Missions and those sent to Accomplish, and still haven't paid for either nor the long term results from and that includes the VA their responsibility, so extremely quickly after 9/11!!
Command Sergeant Major: No Troops Died Searching for Bergdahl

Australians Understand What American Led Iraq War Policies Created

* * * CIA Torture: Read the Senate Intelligence Committee report * * *

In a Democracy: 'Citizens must know what is done in their name'

Pres. Bush: “Prisoners of war must at all times be humanely treated”

Blackwater Security Guards Handed Lengthy Sentences For Iraqi Killings

Human rights groups call for special prosecutor to investigate CIA torture

22 December 2014 - The ACLU and Human Rights Watch say the offences amount to ‘a vast criminal conspiracy’ and are ‘shocking and corrosive’ to US democracy and credibility read more>>>

* * * Seeds of ISIL Planted By Bush/Cheney and Conservative Congresses * * *

"Without the Iraq War There Would be No Islamic State"

Aug 8, 2015 - IS Top Command Dominated by Ex-Officers in Saddam's Army

Brit Report into Iraq War will Be Published in June or July 2016

$14 Million An Hour: War Costs Top $1.6 Trillion Since 9/11, Say Congressional Researchers

December 22 2014 - American taxpayers have shelled out roughly $1.6 trillion on war spending since 9/11, according to a new report from Congress’ nonpartisan research arm. That’s roughly $337 million a day -- or nearly a quarter million dollars a minute -- every single day for 13 years. read more>>>

DeJa-Vu: “With no shared sacrifices being asked of civilians after Sept. 11", Decades and War From, All Over Again!!

Brit 'Iraq War Inquiry': 'Crushing verdict on Blair and the Iraq war'

2016-07-06T07:15:00.000-04:00

* * * The British Iraq War Inquiry * * *

Chilcot delivers crushing verdict on Blair and the Iraq war

Long-awaited report says UK chose to join invasion before peaceful options for disarming Saddam had been exhausted
6 July 2016 - Sir John Chilcot has delivered a devastating critique of Tony Blair’s decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003, with his long-awaited report concluding that Britain chose to join the US invasion before “peaceful options for disarmament” had been exhausted.
The head of the Iraq war inquiry said the UK’s decision to attack and occupy a sovereign state for the first time since the second world war was a decision of “utmost gravity”. He described Iraq’s president, Saddam Hussein, as “undoubtedly a brutal dictator” who had repressed his own people and attacked his neighbours.
But Chilcot – whom Gordon Brown asked seven years ago to head an inquiry into the conflict - was withering about Blair’s choice to join the US invasion. Chilcot said: “We have concluded that the UK chose to join the invasion of Iraq before the peaceful options for disarmament had been exhausted. Military action at that time was not a last resort.”
The report suggests that Blair’s self-belief was a major factor in the decision to go to war. In a section headed Lessons, Chilcot writes: “When the potential for military action arises, the government should not commit to a firm political objective before it is clear it can be achieved. Regular reassessment is essential.”
The report also bitterly criticises the way in which Blair made the case for Britain to go to war. It says the notorious dossier presented in September 2002 by Blair to the House of Commons did not support his claim that Iraq had a growing programme of chemical and biological weapons. read more>>>

Chilcot report live: Blair exaggerated Iraq threat and ignored invasion warnings

Iraq changed everything: that’s why Chilcot matters so much

From the horrors of Isis and Syria to Brexit and the travails of our political parties, we still live every day with the legacy of Tony Blair’s war 13 years ago
6 July 2016 - Strange to recall now, given the disaster that eventually engulfed him, but it was always said of Tony Blair that he was a lucky politician. Lucky in his timing, rising to the Labour leadership at the very moment Britain was ready to embrace almost any alternative to a stale Tory government; lucky in the opponents he faced; lucky that the economic sun shined for his entire 10-year spell in Downing Street, the skies clouding over within weeks of him leaving office. The timing of today’s Chilcot report suggests Blair’s luck has not entirely deserted him.
Think of it. The Chilcot inquiry into the decision-making that led to the Iraq war was set up in 2009 and could have reported at any time in the last seven years. But it will come now, in the midst of the greatest political crisis to affect Britain since 1945. At any other moment, Chilcot would have been the all-consuming subject of national debate for days or even weeks, with Blair on the rack. Now, instead, it will fight for airtime alongside the battles for both the Tory and Labour leaderships and the raging argument about how Britain relates to its European neighbours. Blair’s decisions will be exhumed, his reputation may well be flayed once more. But the focus will not be anywhere near as intense as the former prime minister must once have feared. read more>>>

The Iraq war inquiry has left the door open for Tony Blair to be prosecuted

The Chilcot report did not look at the legality of the war itself. But the former prime minister comes in for heavy criticism for his conduct
6 July 2016 - Sir John Chilcot’s inquiry has not, in his words, “expressed a view on whether military action [in Iraq] was legal”. That question, he said, could be resolved only by a court. Still less does his report deal with the question of whether Tony Blair or others should face legal action.
However, the Chilcot inquiry did find that the circumstances in which the Blair government decided that there was a legal basis for military action were “far from satisfactory”. The report said that Lord Goldsmith, the attorney general, should have been asked to provide written advice to the cabinet on 17 March 2003 explaining the legal basis on which the UK could take military action and setting out the risks of legal challenge.
In fact, Goldsmith started to give ministers an oral explanation, based on a written answer to a parliamentary question which was handed round the cabinet table, and the discussion then moved on. read more>>>

"It's a shame Brian Williams will be the only person ever punished for lying about Iraq"

And now Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl after the Whole Country Abandoned the Missions and those sent to Accomplish, and still haven't paid for either nor the long term results from and that includes the VA their responsibility, so extremely quickly after 9/11!!
Command Sergeant Major: No Troops Died Searching for Bergdahl

Australians Understand What American Led Iraq War Policies Created

* * * CIA Torture: Read the Senate Intelligence Committee report * * *

In a Democracy: 'Citizens must know what is done in their name'

Pres. Bush: “Prisoners of war must at all times be humanely treated”

Blackwater Security Guards Handed Lengthy Sentences For Iraqi Killings

Human rights groups call for special prosecutor to investigate CIA torture

22 December 2014 - The ACLU and Human Rights Watch say the offences amount to ‘a vast criminal conspiracy’ and are ‘shocking and corrosive’ to US democracy and credibility read more>>>

* * * Seeds of ISIL Planted By Bush/Cheney and Conservative Congresses * * *

"Without the Iraq War There Would be No Islamic State"

Aug 8, 2015 - IS Top Command Dominated by Ex-Officers in Saddam's Army

Brit Report into Iraq War will Be Published in June or July 2016

$14 Million An Hour: War Costs Top $1.6 Trillion Since 9/11, Say Congressional Researchers

December 22 2014 - American taxpayers have shelled out roughly $1.6 trillion on war spending since 9/11, according to a new report from Congress’ nonpartisan research arm. That’s roughly $337 million a day -- or nearly a quarter million dollars a minute -- every single day for 13 years. read more>>>

DeJa-Vu: “With no shared sacrifices being asked of civilians after Sept. 11", Decades and War From, All Over Again!!

Iraq Today: "Anyone who joined the war in Iraq helped destroy us.”

2016-07-05T10:06:00.000-04:00

* * * The British Iraq War Inquiry * * *

Iraq still dreaming of peace 13 years after Saddam

4 July 2016 - Bilal Dhafer’s sister was just 10 when she was killed by a US air strike targeting al-Qaeda operatives that destroyed part of their family house — a victim of what the west termed “collateral damage”. Two years later, his father perished when a bomb planted by Iraqi extremists exploded outside his car-repair shop in Baghdad.
By then his and his family’s hopes that Iraq would be a better place in the wake of the 2003 US- and UK-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi dictator, had been dashed as violence and chaos wreaked havoc across the country. Today, as the jobless 26-year-old political science graduate struggles to support his mother and younger brother, he bitterly questions the cost of the war — his relatives are among the estimated 160,000 civilians killed in 13 years of carnage that has followed Saddam’s fall.
“Saddam Hussein should have been removed from power in the 1990s [during the first Gulf war], that’s what I was taught,” Mr Dhafer says. “But now I think it would have been better if he had stayed. Anyone who joined the war in Iraq helped destroy us.” read more>>>

Iraq Chilcot inquiry: Bitterness in Baghdad

5 July 2016 - Almost 24 hours after the massacre of civilians in Baghdad by so-called Islamic State, young men were digging frantically through the basement of one of the shopping centres that was destroyed.

They were looking for human remains. But all they found were some shoes and a pile of black ash. It was hot in the basement. The fire was still smouldering. Warm, scummy water dripped from the ceiling. Outside, hundreds of people had gathered. Being there was a form of defiance. In the Iraqi capital, any crowded, dark street is a potential target for a suicide bomber.
Perhaps sharing infinite sadness makes it easier to bear. Many people cried, or prayed. I saw a Christian clergyman lighting candles and making the sign of the cross as well as young people chanting a Shia Muslim anthem for the dead.
Just because so many Iraqi civilians have been massacred does not make senseless killing any easier to bear for the survivors.
It is doubtful whether Iraqis who are so caught up in the pain of daily life will take much interest in the long-delayed publication of the UK's official inquiry into its part in the invasion of 2003.
'One thousand Saddams now' read more>>>

'I regret toppling Saddam's statue'

5 July 2016 - What effect did the Iraq war have on Iraqis themselves?
One man who found himself at the centre of the most euphoric moment of the war - the toppling of the famous statue of Saddam Hussein in central Baghdad - is Kadhim Sharif Hassan Al-Jabbouri.
Speaking to the BBC, he said he regrets helping to take down the sculpture. watch video>>>

5 July 2016 - Inside the Iraq war spin machine

4 July 2016 - CHILCOT: FIVE KEY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE IRAQ WAR INQUIRY

5 July 2016 - Revealed: Blair’s 29 letters to Bush before Iraq war

Blood and treasure: The costs of the Iraq war 4 July 2016 - Hundreds of thousands killed, millions forced from their homes, and billions of dollars squandered. The legacy of Iraq's war, in numbers read more>>>

Brit 'Iraq War Inquiry' 6 July 2016: American 'Accountability' For Iraq, Hell NO!!

Brit Iraq War Inquiry: Seven Yrs. In The Making

Brit Iraq War Inquiry: Seven Yrs. In The Making

2016-07-05T07:28:00.001-04:00

* * * The British Iraq War Inquiry * * *

Revelation or whitewash – what can we expect from the Chilcot inquiry?

It has been seven years in the making at a cost of £10m and runs to 2.6m words. Chilcot’s report into the Iraq war finally nears publication, but will it be worth the wait?
4 July 2016 - That account is finally to be published on Wednesday. The 12-volume report is 2.6m words: as long as a dozen doorstop history books. For the families of the 179 British military personnel killed in the Iraq war, who have endured Chilcot’s years of delays, sometimes with anger, and until last month were told that they would have to pay for a printed version of the report, free copies will be available. For the rest of us, unless you want to read the whole thing on the inquiry website, or print it out, the complete report will cost £767.

According to the website, among the radioactive topics Chilcot will cover are: “the effect of 9/11” on the UK’s Iraq policy; “the UK’s understanding of Iraq’s WMD [weapons of mass destruction] capability”; the UK government’s “production of the September [2002] dossier” on the supposed existence of those weapons; “the legal advice to the government” over going to war with Iraq; “the UK’s role in the invasion”; “the UK’s preparedness and actions” in Iraq “as an occupying power”; “the human cost” of the revolt against that occupation, and of the Iraqi civil war that followed; “the physical and psychological injuries sustained” by British soldiers; and the adequacy or otherwise of their equipment.
Meanwhile, hanging over – if not directly addressed by – the Chilcot report will be another, even larger issue: whether the the war, by leading to the creation of Isis, which began as part of the revolt against the Iraq occupation, launched “a new epoch of horror, instability and violence across the globe”, as the prominent Tory journalist Peter Oborne puts it in his new book, Not the Chilcot Report. In the last week alone, Isis has reportedly killed hundreds of people in attacks from Dhaka in Bangladesh to Istanbul in Turkey and the Iraqi capital Baghdad itself. read more>>>

Brit 'Iraq War Inquiry' 6 July 2016: American 'Accountability' For Iraq, Hell NO!!

"It's a shame Brian Williams will be the only person ever punished for lying about Iraq"

And now Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl after the Whole Country Abandoned the Missions and those sent to Accomplish, and still haven't paid for either nor the long term results from and that includes the VA their responsibility, so extremely quickly after 9/11!!
Command Sergeant Major: No Troops Died Searching for Bergdahl

Australians Understand What American Led Iraq War Policies Created

* * * CIA Torture: Read the Senate Intelligence Committee report * * *

In a Democracy: 'Citizens must know what is done in their name'

Pres. Bush: “Prisoners of war must at all times be humanely treated”

Blackwater Security Guards Handed Lengthy Sentences For Iraqi Killings

Human rights groups call for special prosecutor to investigate CIA torture

22 December 2014 - The ACLU and Human Rights Watch say the offences amount to ‘a vast criminal conspiracy’ and are ‘shocking and corrosive’ to US democracy and credibility read more>>>

* * * Seeds of ISIL Planted By Bush/Cheney and Conservative Congresses * * *

"Without the Iraq War There Would be No Islamic State"

Aug 8, 2015 - IS Top Command Dominated by Ex-Officers in Saddam's Army

Brit Report into Iraq War will Be Published in June or July 2016

$14 Million An Hour: War Costs Top $1.6 Trillion Since 9/11, Say Congressional Researchers

December 22 2014 - American taxpayers have shelled out roughly $1.6 trillion on war spending since 9/11, according to a new report from Congress’ nonpartisan research arm. That’s roughly $337 million a day -- or nearly a quarter million dollars a minute -- every single day for 13 years. read more>>>

DeJa-Vu: “With no shared sacrifices being asked of civilians after Sept. 11", Decades and War From, All Over Again!!

Brit 'Iraq War Inquiry' 6 July 2016: American 'Accountability' For Iraq, Hell NO!!

2016-07-03T10:25:00.000-04:00

MARCH 24, 2003 - Seventy-Two Percent of Americans Support War Against Iraq

The extremely rapid abandoning of the Missions and those sent to Accomplish after 9/11 gave rapid spread and rise of the al Qaeda ideologies blowback, especially helped by the equally rapid and rising hatreds by extremists, so called, christians in America, meme's, books, FOX speak and even slanderous blasphemy movies of not the extremist Muslims but the whole of Islam, and done in 'gods' name!! Which gave rise to, some would label even more extremist and unstable, ISIL Deadly Extremism, replacing al Qaeda!!

Tony Blair is right: without the Iraq war there would be no Islamic State

How Long Would the House GOP Have Investigated Iraq if It Cared About Iraq as Much as Benghazi?

JUNE 28 2016 - Indeed, early word on the select committee's report is that it does little to advance our understanding of how Benghazi happened and fails to make a case that Hillary Clinton committed any act of substantial incompetence or malfeasance. So that's six investigations over the course of four years, ending with a shrug.
Which suggests a question: How much time would House Republicans have spent investigating the deaths of Americans in the Iraq war if they cared as much about Iraq as they do about Benghazi? (There were two major inquiries into the Iraq fiasco, but both were bipartisan and neither involved a serving House Republican.) There were four Americans killed in Benghazi whose deaths can on some level be considered a failure by our government; there have been some 4,500 American service members killed in Iraq for whose deaths our government was perhaps even more responsible.
So, calculating proportionally and assuming that those lives cut short in Iraq are worth as much attention as the lives cut short in Benghazi, House Republicans would have launched 6,750 investigations of the Iraq war to have been conducted over the course of 4,500 years. Wouldn't that have been absurd? read more>>>

28 JUNE 2016 - Chilcot Inquiry: When is the Iraq War report being published and why has it taken so long?

The 'fix' meme's already started, actually in constant continuation as to Bengazi and thus the e-mail server, though not the e-mails of the bush admin personal and especially the using of an RNC server by Rove and company, thus saying the (R)'s in the FBI and DoJ {especially the bush admin christian law school DoJ appointee's that changed to public employee's} aren't walking in FOX speak lockstep!! And the Congress, especially Conservatives in, not laying any blame on themselves for much more then just cutting State department budgets including for security of Embassies!!

JULY 2, 2016 - Hillary Clinton interviewed by FBI over private email server

NGOs push for judicial inquiry into UK’s links to post-9/11 rendition & torture

29 June 2016 - A potent alliance of leading human rights NGOs has called for a full judicial inquiry into Britain’s role in rendition a week ahead of the publication of the Chilcot report into the Iraq war.>>>

And monetary costs never to be known, like much as to the privatized military especially the merc privatized, trading on wall street, army quickly built that morphed into an air force and intelligence gathering entity, and not only to Romania but all the Countries involved with the CIA:

July 1, 2016 - Explosive claims CIA paid millions for secret torture prisons in Romania

Chilcot report: MPs seek to impeach Tony Blair over Iraq War using ancient law

Move could be made because of Labour leader’s alleged misleading of Parliament
2 July 2016 - A number of MPs are seeking to impeach former prime minister Tony Blair using an ancient Parliamentary law.
The move, which has cross-party support, could be launched in the aftermath of the Chilcot Inquiry report because of the Labour leader’s alleged role in misleading Parliament over the Iraq War.
MPs believe Mr Blair, who was in office between 1997 and 2007, should be prosecuted for breaching his constitutional duties and taking the country into a conflict that resulted in the deaths of 179 British troops. read more>>>

Chilcot inquiry must restore trust in government, says top lawyer

3 July 2016 - Sir John Chilcot will reveal his long-delayed findings on Wednesday>>>

While the 'Iraq War Inquiry' finally released publically is sure to be political leaning there's an awful lot that can't be scrubbed that came out in the very public testimony of those questioned and America could have grasp and quickly started it's own Official Inquiry and Accountability!! Like these very very few:

Drip, drip, drip, "He recalled noting that: "the dog didn't bark - it grizzled." Don't forget - this 'grizzling' for regime change was 6 months BEFORE 9/11."". drip, drip, drip, "But there was a 'sea change' in attitude after the atrocities, with former national security adviser Condoleezza Rice targeting Iraq on the very day of the outrage.", drip, drip, drip, "George Bush tried to make a connection between Iraq and al-Qaida in a conversation with Tony Blair three days after the 9/11 attacks, according to Blair's foreign policy adviser of the time.", drip, drip, drip, "There was "a touching belief [in Washington] that we shouldn't worry so much about the aftermath because it was all going to be sweetness and light".", drip, drip, drip, "Boyce mentions the "dysfunctionalism" of Washington. He says that he would find himself briefing his American counterparts on what was happening in different parts of the US adminstration. Rumsfeld was not sharing information", drip, drip, drip...........!

27 November 2009 - Blair and a deal signed in blood: PM and Bush had secret plan to topple Saddam, says envoy

But there was a 'sea change' in attitude after the atrocities, with former national security adviser Condoleezza Rice targeting Iraq on the very day of the outrage.He said: 'On 9/11 itself I had a telephone conversation and I said, "Who do you think did it?" She said, "There's no doubt it was an Al Qaeda operation".'At the end of the conversation she said, "We're just looking at the possibility that there could be any link to Saddam Hussein".' >>>

30 November 2009 - Chilcot inquiry hears Bush began Iraq war drumbeat three days after 9/11

Australians That Still Seek 'Iraq War Inquiry'

2016-06-12T09:35:00.001-04:00

Australian strategy and effectiveness in Iraq War open to review

JUNE 11, 2016 - Within weeks, Britain’s Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war will report its findings. It has taken eight years to interview witnesses and examine more than 150,000 government documents for the report, which is expected to be three times longer than the Bible. Chilcot will examine the decision that took Britain to war in 2003, and the strategy and effectiveness of operations in the ensuing six years.
In Australia, we have yet to address either issue seriously. Our public debate on Iraq remains suspended in aspic, seeking to blame rather than learn, and yet to understand just what it was that thousands of Australian troops did there this past decade.
I deployed to Iraq twice and, much as I try, it is hard to place my experience of the Iraq war within the national political discourse.
It is 13 years since that international wound was opened. At best it was a tragic mistake, taking thousands of military and civilian lives and disrupting entire nations. At worst, it was a deliberate and evil calculation, fuelling and fostering conflicts that are still claiming hundreds of thousands of lives — “the greatest disaster in American foreign policy” in the judgment of former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright.
The youngest recruits joining the Australian Defence Force today would have been but four years old when Australian soldiers, sailors and aircrew joined the campaign to invade Iraq in 2003. In the time since, Australia has had six governments, five prime ministers and eight defence ministers. I can see where Iraq hangs in our national consciousness, a spectre looming over every discussion of war and how Australia makes its way in the world.
Three perspectives colour my experience of the Iraq war. read more>>>

Tony Blair, the Chilcot report and the legacy of Iraq

"It's a shame Brian Williams will be the only person ever punished for lying about Iraq"

And now Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl after the Whole Country Abandoned the Missions and those sent to Accomplish, and still haven't paid for either nor the long term results from and that includes the VA their responsibility, so extremely quickly after 9/11!!
Command Sergeant Major: No Troops Died Searching for Bergdahl

Australians Understand What American Led Iraq War Policies Created

* * * CIA Torture: Read the Senate Intelligence Committee report * * *

In a Democracy: 'Citizens must know what is done in their name'

Pres. Bush: “Prisoners of war must at all times be humanely treated”

Blackwater Security Guards Handed Lengthy Sentences For Iraqi Killings

Human rights groups call for special prosecutor to investigate CIA torture

22 December 2014 - The ACLU and Human Rights Watch say the offences amount to ‘a vast criminal conspiracy’ and are ‘shocking and corrosive’ to US democracy and credibility read more>>>

* * * Seeds of ISIL Planted By Bush/Cheney and Conservative Congresses * * *

"Without the Iraq War There Would be No Islamic State"

Aug 8, 2015 - IS Top Command Dominated by Ex-Officers in Saddam's Army

Brit Report into Iraq War will Be Published in June or July 2016

$14 Million An Hour: War Costs Top $1.6 Trillion Since 9/11, Say Congressional Researchers

December 22 2014 - American taxpayers have shelled out roughly $1.6 trillion on war spending since 9/11, according to a new report from Congress’ nonpartisan research arm. That’s roughly $337 million a day -- or nearly a quarter million dollars a minute -- every single day for 13 years. read more>>>

DeJa-Vu: “With no shared sacrifices being asked of civilians after Sept. 11", Decades and War From, All Over Again!!

Release of Iraq War Inquiry: 'People’s Chilcot Tribunal'

2016-06-07T07:52:00.002-04:00

Soldiers' families and anti-war figures to hold People’s Chilcot Tribunal

6 June 2016 - Leading figures in drive for war prepare for public relations offensive
FAMILIES OF SOLDIERS who were killed in the Iraq War are set to join the former UN envoy to Iraq and leading anti-war campaigners to hold a ‘People’s Tribunal’ to scrutinise the official inquiry into the invasion.
The tribunal will be held on Wednesday (8 June) less than a month from the long-awaited publication of the Chilcot Inquiry, and will also hear from soldiers who took part in the war.
Lindsey German, convenor of the Stop the War Coalition said: “The announcements about Chilcot have stirred long dormant feelings of opposition to the war and a sense of determination to ensure that the victims of this war receive justice by holding to account those responsible for it.
“At the People's Chilcot Tribunal, expert witnesses will put the case against war and the sordid politics behind it. This is the opening salvo in a campaign to ensure that we get truth and justice over Iraq. We owe it to everyone - from the people of Fallujah to the British soldiers who died.” read more>>>

7 Jun, 2016 - Blair blame game: Ex-PM prepares Iraq War excuses ahead of Chilcot report

"It's a shame Brian Williams will be the only person ever punished for lying about Iraq"

And now Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl after the Whole Country Abandoned the Missions and those sent to Accomplish, and still haven't paid for either nor the long term results from and that includes the VA their responsibility, so extremely quickly after 9/11!!
Command Sergeant Major: No Troops Died Searching for Bergdahl

Australians Understand What American Led Iraq War Policies Created

* * * CIA Torture: Read the Senate Intelligence Committee report * * *

In a Democracy: 'Citizens must know what is done in their name'

Pres. Bush: “Prisoners of war must at all times be humanely treated”

Blackwater Security Guards Handed Lengthy Sentences For Iraqi Killings

Human rights groups call for special prosecutor to investigate CIA torture

22 December 2014 - The ACLU and Human Rights Watch say the offences amount to ‘a vast criminal conspiracy’ and are ‘shocking and corrosive’ to US democracy and credibility read more>>>

* * * Seeds of ISIL Planted By Bush/Cheney and Conservative Congresses * * *

"Without the Iraq War There Would be No Islamic State"

Aug 8, 2015 - IS Top Command Dominated by Ex-Officers in Saddam's Army

Brit Report into Iraq War will Be Published in June or July 2016

$14 Million An Hour: War Costs Top $1.6 Trillion Since 9/11, Say Congressional Researchers

December 22 2014 - American taxpayers have shelled out roughly $1.6 trillion on war spending since 9/11, according to a new report from Congress’ nonpartisan research arm. That’s roughly $337 million a day -- or nearly a quarter million dollars a minute -- every single day for 13 years. read more>>>

DeJa-Vu: “With no shared sacrifices being asked of civilians after Sept. 11", Decades and War From, All Over Again!!

After the Iraq War Inquiry: 'the New Testament – the gospel according to Saint Tony'

2016-06-03T08:40:00.002-04:00

After the Chilcot report, we'll hear the New Testament – the gospel according to Saint Tony

It may not be a written text, more a collection of stories handed down by apostles, generation after generation, only later formed into a codex

3 June 2016 - So, Sir John Chilcot’s report is going to be “four times as long as War and Peace”, is it? My weariness comes not with the cliché, credited to the usual tiresome “officials”, never mind the insult to poor old Tolstoy. The implication is that the Russian novel is so massive, its characters so many, its historical sweep so vast, its very length so awesome, that we can scarcely grasp its importance. But it’s the wrong book.
True, Saddam idolised a Russian leader (Stalin), but there were no Napoleons in Iraq, whatever Generals Petraeus and McCrystal might think.
We could, perhaps, turn to Tolstoy’s forgotten little masterpiece Hadji Murat, inspired by the author’s experience as a soldier in what is now Chechnya – a novel whose Muslim separatist rebel hero ends up, naturally enough, getting his head chopped off, in this case by some very angry Russian soldiers. But that’s really only a short story.
Surely it’s far more accurate to say that Chilcot’s 2.6 million words will be more than four times as long as the Old Testament. First, the titanic events of that great volume take place in the Middle East, in some cases on the lands that constitute the very same Iraq which we shamefully invaded in 2003. The narrative of the Old Testament is therefore set on familiar territory.
And only this Biblical epic of lies, cruelty, mass killing, ethnic cleansing, enslavement and betrayal comes anywhere close to the story of deceit, genocidal murder and criminality with which Sir John has been wrestling these past seven years. read more>>>

Let the Murdock FOX speak continue...........!!

May 31, 2016 - Britain's Tony Blair says he'd rebut Iraq War report if he's found to be in the wrong

Which the families have never bought into, like the parrots of the FOX continue...!!

Families of Iraq War dead will have to pay £767 for full Chilcot report

3 June 2016 - The families of British soldiers who died in the Iraq War will have to pay £767 for a hard copy of the full Chilcot report.
It has emerged there are no allowances to give free copies of the 12-volume report to the next of kin of those soldiers killed during combat.
Instead they will be given a free hard copy of the executive summary – which would otherwise cost £30 – and will be urged to read the full report online. read more>>>

Washington mum of soldier killed in Iraq believes Chilcot report set to contain 'more lies'

31 May 2016 - Families of soldiers killed in the Iraq conflict could sue former Prime Minister Tony Blair following the publication of Chilcot report read more>>>

Well not completely! Just in the very public testimony, still archived, plenty came out and not only as to Britain's and Blair's role but what was going on with All their counterparts in and around the Bush administration, that can't be whitewashed as it spoken on public video at time, each day. And what's left is much of the closed door and, now unclassified, classified at time government intelligence directly about, as well as apparently to be released correspondence between Blair and Bush!

Relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq want Tony Blair to pay for report

3 June 2016 - Families of dead British soldiers face having to pay £767 for a copy of the Chilcot report when it is published next month read more>>>

"It's a shame Brian Williams will be the only person ever punished for lying about Iraq"

And now Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl after the Whole Country Abandoned the Missions and those sent to Accomplish, and still haven't paid for either nor the long term results from and that includes the VA their responsibility, so extremely quickly after 9/11!!
Command Sergeant Major: No Troops Died Searching for Bergdahl

Australians Understand What American Led Iraq War Policies Created

* * * CIA Torture: Read the Senate Intelligence Committee report * * *

In a Democracy: 'Citizens must know what is done in their name'

Pres. Bush: “Prisoners of war must at all times be humanely treated”

Blackwater Security Guards Handed Lengthy Sentences For Iraqi Killings

Human rights groups call for special prosecutor to investigate CIA torture

22 December 2014 - The ACLU and Human Rights Watch say the offences amount to ‘a vast criminal conspiracy’ and are ‘shocking and corrosive’ to US democracy and credibility read more>>>

* * * Seeds of ISIL Planted By Bush/Cheney and Conservative Congresses * * *

"Without the Iraq War There Would be No Islamic State"

Aug 8, 2015 - IS Top Command Dominated by Ex-Officers in Saddam's Army

Brit Report into Iraq War will Be Published in June or July 2016

$14 Million An Hour: War Costs Top $1.6 Trillion Since 9/11, Say Congressional Researchers

December 22 2014 - American taxpayers have shelled out roughly $1.6 trillion on war spending since 9/11, according to a new report from Congress’ nonpartisan research arm. That’s roughly $337 million a day -- or nearly a quarter million dollars a minute -- every single day for 13 years. read more>>>

DeJa-Vu: “With no shared sacrifices being asked of civilians after Sept. 11", Decades and War From, All Over Again!!

Coming Iraq War Inquiry Release: Tony Blair “won’t be let off the hook”

2016-05-22T09:01:00.001-04:00

The 'extremely' quick abandoning of the missions and those sent to accomplish after 9/11, with some 72%plus support, as the bush admin, in collusion with conservative congressional reps, were talking Saddam in the weeks before, on 9/11 and in the weeks after:

* Britain’s inquiry into the Iraq War is coming out soon. *

Washington Post 10 May 2016 - It only took 7 years, $15 million and 2.6 million words. read more>>>

* British Iraq War Inquiry *

Chilcot report: Tony Blair set to be savaged in ‘absolutely brutal’ Iraq war inquiry verdict

The report is set to be published two weeks after the EU referendum
22 May 2016 - The long-awaited Chilcot report into the Iraq war is reportedly set to savage Tony Blair and other former government officials in an “absolutely brutal” verdict on the failings of the occupation.
The former Prime Minister “won’t be let off the hook” over claims he offered military assistance to the former American President George W Bush, a year before the invasion of Iraq, a source told the Sunday Times.
The Inquiry, which was set up by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown in June 2009 to look into the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, will release its 2.6 million word report just two weeks after the EU referendum. It is expected to “damage the reputations” of a number of high-ranking officials.
The source added that the harshest criticism will be reserved for the former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw. “It will be absolutely brutal for [Mr] Straw,” they told the Sunday Times. “The build-up to war is very crucial. It will damage the reputations of a number of people, Richard Dearlove as well as Tony Blair and others. But there is a second half. The report will say that we really did make a mess of the after¬math.”
“We sent in inexperienced people. People were put in positions where they couldn’t succeed. We didn’t quite know what we were doing. After the invasion we found it very much more difficult than we had expected. read more>>>

Final Bengazi report: The, extremely, costly report a comin; Tepub FOX speak journalism attempt, tried and true propaganda 101, to greatly dampen the media barrage coming at Iraq War Inquiry release, here in the states, rest of World not so much!!

* Benghazi Research Center * BENGHAZI: By The Numbers; Cost $22 Million: Minimum total cost to the taxpayers of congressional investigations into Benghazi.
3plus yrs. of Congressional Investigation and public Hearings!
Hearings: 33; Number of congressional hearings, public or private, held on the Benghazi tragedy according to publicly available hearing transcripts, congressional reports, and committee websites and fact sheets. by the numbers>>>

Brit 'Iraq War Inquiry' Release Coming: What Won't Be Deleted

Iraq War Inquiry Public Release: Happy Birthday, Mr {GWB} President

Will Tony Blair Face International Criminal Proceedings

FINALLY{?}: Final Iraq War Inquiry Report Public Release 6 July 2016

The American media seems to also be starting their, beating the drums again, distractions as the release approaches. Putting out truths, half truths and the much known already bushco spin. Leaving out their own culpability in beating the drums of war with growing fervor and extremely little questioning of the building policies that continue the destructive blowback today! Along with the problems placed on the people served responsibility the Veterans Administration created by the, conservative, congresses needed media hyped 'scandals' to hasten the privatization for corporate profit and little regulation of same:

THE SPYMASTERS - CIA IN THE CROSSHAIRS

21 May 2016 - "48 Hours" Presents: How far should the CIA go to keep America safe? All 12 living CIA directors share their passionate disagreements about the agency's past, its current mission, and its future Parts 1 and 2>>>

"It's a shame Brian Williams will be the only person ever punished for lying about Iraq"

And now Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl after the Whole Country Abandoned the Missions and those sent to Accomplish, and still haven't paid for either nor the long term results from and that includes the VA their responsibility, so extremely quickly after 9/11!!
Command Sergeant Major: No Troops Died Searching for Bergdahl

Australians Understand What American Led Iraq War Policies Created

* * * CIA Torture: Read the Senate Intelligence Committee report * * *

In a Democracy: 'Citizens must know what is done in their name'

Pres. Bush: “Prisoners of war must at all times be humanely treated”

Blackwater Security Guards Handed Lengthy Sentences For Iraqi Killings

Human rights groups call for special prosecutor to investigate CIA torture

22 December 2014 - The ACLU and Human Rights Watch say the offences amount to ‘a vast criminal conspiracy’ and are ‘shocking and corrosive’ to US democracy and credibility read more>>>

* * * Seeds of ISIL Planted By Bush/Cheney and Conservative Congresses * * *

"Without the Iraq War There Would be No Islamic State"

Aug 8, 2015 - IS Top Command Dominated by Ex-Officers in Saddam's Army

Brit Report into Iraq War will Be Published in June or July 2016

$14 Million An Hour: War Costs Top $1.6 Trillion Since 9/11, Say Congressional Researchers

December 22 2014 - American taxpayers have shelled out roughly $1.6 trillion on war spending since 9/11, according to a new report from Congress’ nonpartisan research arm. That’s roughly $337 million a day -- or nearly a quarter million dollars a minute -- every single day for 13 years. read more>>>

DeJa-Vu: “With no shared sacrifices being asked of civilians after Sept. 11", Decades and War From, All Over Again!!

Will Tony Blair Face International Criminal Proceedings

2016-05-16T07:52:00.001-04:00

Don't hold your breath on same as to George W Bush or Dick Cheney or any in the Bush regime. Including members of Congress and others, in and out of Government at time and since. Especially with the some 72%plus support for abandoning the missions and those sent to accomplish so extremely quickly after 9/11, blame the next Executive Admin while blanking out the criminal acts, everything else and that it even existed, supported previously. We don't do Accountability, we just use that tool in attacking and condemning others not in lockstep, especially the conservative ideologues who readily rubber stamped All policy wants!! Why they, two tax cuts huge for the wealthy and investors in, don't even demand those served Sacrifice as they demand the few who are sent into the war theaters, and their families, do!!

Alex Salmond reveals plan to put Tony Blair in the dock over Iraq War

15 May 2016 - ALEX Salmond wants Tony Blair to face international criminal proceedings over Britain's involvement in the Iraq War - if the Chilcot inquiry finds the former British Prime Minister made a secret commitment to US president George Bush to support the invasion.
The former Scottish First Minister and current SNP foreign affairs spokesman in Westminster has revealed he intends to reassemble a cross-party parliamentary group that launched a campaign to have Blair impeached ten years ago, in order to make plans for action prior to the publication of Sir John Chilcot's 2.6 million-word Iraq war inquiry report in July.
Salmond played a major role in the impeachment group, formed in the main by Welsh and Scots nationalist MPs before he became First Minister - and at a time when the SNP was a minor party in Westminster with just three MPs. Now the SNP, with 54 MPs, are the UK’s third biggest party.
Salmond - who led SNP MPs in voting against war in Iraq in the House of Commons in 2003 – said he believes the Chilcot Report will reveal that Blair committed Britain to joining the US-led military action in private conversations with Bush, possibly during a 2002 visit to the then president's ranch in Crawford, Texas.
Salmond believes that any prosecution of Blair should be carried out by the International Criminal Court - the tribunal that has jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for international crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and 'crimes of aggression'. read more>>>

16 May 2016 - New move to impeach Tony Blair over Iraq War gains cross-party support

Former SNP leader Alex Salmond has begun rallying support for an attempted prosecution >>>>

FINALLY{?}: Final Iraq War Inquiry Report Public Release 6 July 2016

Iraq War Inquiry Public Release: Happy Birthday, Mr {GWB} President

"It's a shame Brian Williams will be the only person ever punished for lying about Iraq"

And now Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl after the Whole Country Abandoned the Missions and those sent to Accomplish, and still haven't paid for either nor the long term results from and that includes the VA their responsibility, so extremely quickly after 9/11!!
Command Sergeant Major: No Troops Died Searching for Bergdahl

Australians Understand What American Led Iraq War Policies Created

* * * CIA Torture: Read the Senate Intelligence Committee report * * *

In a Democracy: 'Citizens must know what is done in their name'

Pres. Bush: “Prisoners of war must at all times be humanely treated”

Blackwater Security Guards Handed Lengthy Sentences For Iraqi Killings

Human rights groups call for special prosecutor to investigate CIA torture

22 December 2014 - The ACLU and Human Rights Watch say the offences amount to ‘a vast criminal conspiracy’ and are ‘shocking and corrosive’ to US democracy and credibility read more>>>

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"Without the Iraq War There Would be No Islamic State"

Aug 8, 2015 - IS Top Command Dominated by Ex-Officers in Saddam's Army

Brit Report into Iraq War will Be Published in June or July 2016

$14 Million An Hour: War Costs Top $1.6 Trillion Since 9/11, Say Congressional Researchers

December 22 2014 - American taxpayers have shelled out roughly $1.6 trillion on war spending since 9/11, according to a new report from Congress’ nonpartisan research arm. That’s roughly $337 million a day -- or nearly a quarter million dollars a minute -- every single day for 13 years. read more>>>

DeJa-Vu: “With no shared sacrifices being asked of civilians after Sept. 11", Decades and War From, All Over Again!!

Iraq War Inquiry Public Release: Happy Birthday, Mr {GWB} President

2016-05-12T07:14:00.002-04:00

Some 72%plus Americans Supported the Bush/Cheney doctrine in abandoning the missions and those sent to accomplish, so extremely, quickly after 9/11!! Leaving everything followed on the table, never demanding any accountability, for what was done 'In Our Names'!! Then rewarded the same ideological conservatives with not only the legislative power of the Federal Government since but turned a number of States over to same control, along with bringing on the payroll even more extremist of!!

The Chilcot Report Is George Bush’s Unwelcome Iraq Birthday Present

{Born - July 6, 1946}
10 May 2016 - As he sits down to celebrate turning 70, a comprehensive picking over of his part in the Iraq war is probably the last thing President George W Bush is hoping for.
Nonetheless, that is exactly the birthday present Bush will receive from the British government, which is publishing the so-called Chilcot report into the Iraq conflict on July 6.
The report, named after chairman Sir John Chilcot, was commissioned seven years ago and is expected to criticize the former President.
The tome is an estimated 2.6 million words in length – almost 1 million words more than the combined length of the complete works of Shakespeare (884,421 words) and the Bible (807,361). read more>>>

FINALLY{?}: Final Iraq War Inquiry Report Public Release 6 July 2016

"It's a shame Brian Williams will be the only person ever punished for lying about Iraq"

And now Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl after the Whole Country Abandoned the Missions and those sent to Accomplish, and still haven't paid for either nor the long term results from and that includes the VA their responsibility, so extremely quickly after 9/11!!
Command Sergeant Major: No Troops Died Searching for Bergdahl

Australians Understand What American Led Iraq War Policies Created

* * * CIA Torture: Read the Senate Intelligence Committee report * * *

In a Democracy: 'Citizens must know what is done in their name'

Pres. Bush: “Prisoners of war must at all times be humanely treated”

Blackwater Security Guards Handed Lengthy Sentences For Iraqi Killings

Human rights groups call for special prosecutor to investigate CIA torture

22 December 2014 - The ACLU and Human Rights Watch say the offences amount to ‘a vast criminal conspiracy’ and are ‘shocking and corrosive’ to US democracy and credibility read more>>>

* * * Seeds of ISIL Planted By Bush/Cheney and Conservative Congresses * * *

"Without the Iraq War There Would be No Islamic State"

Aug 8, 2015 - IS Top Command Dominated by Ex-Officers in Saddam's Army

Brit Report into Iraq War will Be Published in June or July 2016

$14 Million An Hour: War Costs Top $1.6 Trillion Since 9/11, Say Congressional Researchers

December 22 2014 - American taxpayers have shelled out roughly $1.6 trillion on war spending since 9/11, according to a new report from Congress’ nonpartisan research arm. That’s roughly $337 million a day -- or nearly a quarter million dollars a minute -- every single day for 13 years. read more>>>

DeJa-Vu: “With no shared sacrifices being asked of civilians after Sept. 11", Decades and War From, All Over Again!!

FINALLY{?}: Final Iraq War Inquiry Report Public Release 6 July 2016

2016-05-10T08:37:00.000-04:00

Sir John Chilcot's Iraq War inquiry report to be published on July 6, just a fortnight after EU referendum

9 MAY 2016 - The official inquiry into the Iraq War will be published on July 6, less than a fortnight after the referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union.
An announcement on the inquiry’s website said “Sir John Chilcot and the Prime Minister have agreed that the Iraq Inquiry’s report will be published on Wednesday 6 July 2016”.
Last week David Cameron, the Prime Minister confirmed that the report would not be published until after the June 23 EU referendum, prompting criticism that the delay was to avoid embarrassing key ‘In’ campaigners.
Tony Blair, the Labour Prime Minister at the time of the 2003 conflict, is expected to be criticised in the report, along with other figures in his Government. read more>>>

Chilcot report on Iraq war to be published on 6 July

9 May 2016 - Security checks on the 2.6m-word report have been completed without the need for any redactions, Sir John Chilcot tells PM >>>>>

Britain’s inquiry into the Iraq War is coming out soon.

9 May 2016 - It only took 7 years, $15 million and 2.6 million words. >>>>>

Note: While here in the States, not United anymore, the GOP Bengazi Congressional Investigation { Benghazi By The Numbers }, much higher costs, with nothing to show, and only months long so far, continues. As to comparison to a hyped war in-depth investigation and the, just above, Washington Post report on the Iraq War report release.

10 May 2016 - Fears from military families the Chilcot Report into Iraq War will be 'whitewashed'

9 May 2016 - Chilcot report: Soldier's father's 'nightmare wait'

"It's a shame Brian Williams will be the only person ever punished for lying about Iraq"

And now Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl after the Whole Country Abandoned the Missions and those sent to Accomplish, and still haven't paid for either nor the long term results from and that includes the VA their responsibility, so extremely quickly after 9/11!!
Command Sergeant Major: No Troops Died Searching for Bergdahl

Australians Understand What American Led Iraq War Policies Created

* * * CIA Torture: Read the Senate Intelligence Committee report * * *

In a Democracy: 'Citizens must know what is done in their name'

Pres. Bush: “Prisoners of war must at all times be humanely treated”

Blackwater Security Guards Handed Lengthy Sentences For Iraqi Killings

Human rights groups call for special prosecutor to investigate CIA torture

22 December 2014 - The ACLU and Human Rights Watch say the offences amount to ‘a vast criminal conspiracy’ and are ‘shocking and corrosive’ to US democracy and credibility read more>>>

* * * Seeds of ISIL Planted By Bush/Cheney and Conservative Congresses * * *

"Without the Iraq War There Would be No Islamic State"

Aug 8, 2015 - IS Top Command Dominated by Ex-Officers in Saddam's Army

Brit Report into Iraq War will Be Published in June or July 2016

$14 Million An Hour: War Costs Top $1.6 Trillion Since 9/11, Say Congressional Researchers

December 22 2014 - American taxpayers have shelled out roughly $1.6 trillion on war spending since 9/11, according to a new report from Congress’ nonpartisan research arm. That’s roughly $337 million a day -- or nearly a quarter million dollars a minute -- every single day for 13 years. read more>>>

DeJa-Vu: “With no shared sacrifices being asked of civilians after Sept. 11", Decades and War From, All Over Again!!