Needless, Expensive War 10 Years After

• Jurassicpork focuses on the children.

  These war-warped children will grow up with a keen sense of their own nation's history as surely as African American children grow up learning of their forbears' slave status. They will grow learning how George W. Bush tried to rush elections and a Potemkin village illusion of political and economic normalcy in early 2005 even while sectarian forces were literally tearing each other to pieces, during a long period in which our most awesome military couldn't even secure the single highway leading to the airport in Baghdad.

• From Truthdig: An Iraq war veteran, dying, pens a letter to Bush and Cheney:

  Your positions of authority, your millions of dollars of personal wealth, your public relations consultants, your privilege and your power cannot mask the hollowness of your character. You sent us to fight and die in Iraq after you, Mr. Cheney, dodged the draft in Vietnam, and you, Mr. Bush, went AWOL from your National Guard unit. Your cowardice and selfishness were established decades ago. You were not willing to risk yourselves for our nation but you sent hundreds of thousands of young men and women to be sacrificed in a senseless war with no more thought than it takes to put out the garbage.

• Veterans Today:  The books were cooked.

  Former VA doctor Steven Coughlin told congress the department suppressed and manipulated data backing the health claims of Iraq, Afghanistan and Persian Gulf veterans.

Last two links via Mills River Progressive.

P.S.:  THERE WERE NO WMD!  So, needless, expensive, and under false pretenses.