Ten Years of Hell

Dead US soldier in Iraq

Today is the 10^th anniversary of the criminal US invasion of Iraq. This is the day that will forever live in infamy.

I remember screaming at the TV and cursing the low-lifes that perpetrated this act of evil while watching the bombs fall on Baghdad. It was a disgusting spectacle, for months and years to come to watch the US destroy a country which once was one of the most modern and secular in the Mideast.

All those who warned the US about the consequences, all those who protested, all those who screamed “LIARS!” as Bush and Co. regurgitated absurd lie after absurd lie, fake evidence after fake evidence, have been 100% right and vindicated.

Those narrow-minded and hopeless idiots who cheered this Iraqi atrocity and swallowed the fraudulent propaganda of the US and Israel, are complicit in causing the misery in Iraq; and I’m not just indicting the masterminds like Bush, CondoSLEEZa Rice, Paul Wolfowitz and the other sub-human Neo-Con filth who were the architects of that satanic killing spree ten years ago. 

I’m also indicting and blaming all the flag-waving patrIDIOTS out there in every rural nook and cranny and trailer park from sea to stinking sea in this utterly failed and broken land of fat-asses and contradictions. 

Every semi-literate grandpa hick out there, every toothless Joe Billy Bob and their fucking hairy overweight, light beer-swilling genetically deficient red-white & blue redneck mutant gun-toting uncle out there, all have blood on their hands.

It is now official that all the reasons given for the invasion of Iraq on March 19, 2003, were all fraudulent. There were no nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, no 45-minute attacks by the Iraqi army on London as Tony BL-IAR said. 

The invasion and occupation of Iraq did not bring democracy, freedom, peace, stability or anything else worthwhile. 

The invasion has resulted in high cancer rates due to the use of WMDs by the US, from chemical compounds to depleted-uranium munitions. It has resulted in child malnutrition, trauma, poor health, lack of education, lack of drinking water, electricity, everyday violence and bombings, wholesale destruction of infrastructure, roads, factories, sectarian killings, the killing/kidnapping/exodus of Iraqi intellectuals, scientists and teachers, destruction of schools and universities.

These are the so-called accomplishments of the US. They beg question what the aim of the US in Iraq really was/is.

But bring this up to a typical American idiot, and they will fire back with the only defense they have left, albeit a poor one: “But we got rid of Saddam Hussein.”

That’s all, folks. After the destruction of the land, the death of a million Iraqis and 2 or so million who were forced to flee to Syria and elsewhere to avoid US-sponsored death, this is the only excuse these freaks can come up with, that Saddam Hussein is dead. This alone they think was worth the effort.

But was it worth it? HELL NO! NEVER! 

Iraq is worse off now than it was ten or even twenty years ago. There is no question about this. If all this killing and destruction was done to take out Saddam Hussein, then it was all a spectacular waste of time, because it made things much worse than they ever were, or would ever be, if Saddam Hussein was still there. 

Many Iraqis long for the stability and peace of the Saddam era. It was a golden age to them compared to the misery and long-term destruction they faced for the last ten years and will continue to face. This is not some leftist opinion, or anti-American tirade, this is true.

The US has set Iraq back culturally, economically, developmentally and in every way, back decades. Multiple generations have to live with the unnecessary trauma and negative consequences of criminal and genocidal US actions. Their environment has been poisoned for millennia.

But the fault for this illegal, immoral and unethical and criminal act does not only lay at the feet of the criminal mafia which ran, and continues to run this country; the craven media were in lock-step and spread unbelievable absurd lies and fabrications to back up this war. The media journalists and their bosses also have blood on their hands. Their behavior while covering the Iraq war has been shameful and subservient, and for that they share the consequences of that invasion.

The media this week has been reflecting on the Iraq war and its legacy, and filling the airwaves of stories of dead soldiers, and other members of the military who lost so much. Very little is said of the true damage done to Iraq and to its people. On NPR I heard some feel-good story about some Iraqi interpreter who immigrated to the US after the invasion and is so thankful to be in the US. If this story is indeed true, then that Iraqi is a despicable idiot and a traitor. How can he be happy about living in the country which destroyed his? Sounds like this guy may have suffered some brain injury. 

These pathetic PR stories are just a lame and desperate attempt by the mainstream media to try to gloss over the Iraq war crime, and make the sacrifices of the soldiers worthwhile with all kinds of sorry excuses, self-serving, guilt-coating rationalizations and nonsensical explanations. But this is just scraping the bottom of the excuse barrel.

All US soldiers who took part in the Iraq invasion are war criminals. They are not heroes. Invaders and occupiers are not, and never will be heroes. Bush, Obama and the dime-a-dozen generals out there can make all the piss-poor excuses they want, but it will never change the fact that they are the bad guys, not Saddam Hussein, not the Iraqi insurgents, not the anti-war protesters. Nothing they say can get them off the hook: they are war criminals, period!

The American people, majority of which were too willfully-ignorant to know any better and too lazy and inept to do research on their own and cheered on this ultimate war crime, are also guilty. Hopefully they will now know better than to believe absurdities and concocted fakery about other concocted boogeymen the next time the government and the pathetic main stream media start beating the war drums against another hapless nation.

The Iraq war was really all about the strategic control of vital energy resources and possible energy routes. Iraq itself sits at a critical juncture when it comes to the transportation and supply of energy, ie oil and gas.It was also about getting rid of any states that continue to be Russian clients from the Soviet period. Gen. Wesley Clark, the ex-NATO commander, has said as much in an interview. Look for it on You Tube.

The Iraq invasion was never about democracy. Democracy cannot be brought to anyone by force and by the barrel of a gun, never. This should have been the first clue for everyone who was stupid enough to think that the invasion of Iraq was a good idea.

But nevertheless, there is a silver lining to this act of barbarism:

1.       It embarrassed the US, who was relentlessly attacked by the Iraqi insurgency. This proved that the US cannot handle asymmetric warfare.

2.       It bankrupted the US, as the costs of the Iraq invasion and occupation skyrocketed. The majority of the money spent was either wasted or “lost.”

3.       It taught the US that they are unable militarily, technically and financially to carry on multiple wars, or even another ground-based invasion after the debacle they suffered in Iraq

4.       It opened the world’s eyes to the true treachery and deceit that lies under the fake US propaganda rhetoric of democracy, freedom and human rights. Now people, and other governments, are less trusting of the US and its government’s intentions, making it hopefully harder, if not impossible, for the US to initiate more wars based on lies.

Also, why are the main planners of this illegal invasion still at large? Why is Bush, Rice, Rumsfeld, Perle, Wolfowitz and all the other goons 3walking around free, collecting hefty paycheck in “speaking fees” and conspiring against other nations from the safety of their offices at right-wing think-tanks and corporations? 

Why have these people not been brought to justice for their horrible crimes? They should all be either rotting in jail for life or already faced execution for waging an illegal and unnecessary war of aggression. 

Until this happens, Iraqis will not see true justice.