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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

03/21/13

Americans have forgotten about the Iraq war, which began 10 years ago this week, and the Afghan war, the longest in American history, but the U.S. government is still throwing its weight around in both countries. The Iraq war, the pretext for which was nonexistent weapons of mass destruction, officially ended in 2011 with the withdrawal of virtually all of America s combat troops. But the havoc wreaked by the U.S. invasion and regime change goes on...

http://tinyurl.com/bnjw3gv



The Iraq war was no cake walk

Cato Institute
by Christopher A. Preble

03/20/13

Tragically, the Iraq War was not worth the costs. The leading advocates for war understated the costs and exaggerated the benefits. They claimed that the war would be cheap, perhaps even profitable, thanks to lower oil prices. They suggested that it would be easy, a 'cakewalk,' not requiring a long-term U.S presence to stabilize the country after Saddam Hussein s ouster. They blithely dismissed concerns about the tensions between Arabs and Kurds, and between Sunnis and Shiites. We now know how wrong they were...

http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/iraq-war-was-no-cake-walk


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Hijacking of Human Rights

By Chris Hedges

''Humanitarian interventionists'' studiously ignore our own acts of genocide, first unleashed against Native Americans and then exported to the Philippines and, later, nations such as Vietnam.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34540.htm



American Exceptionalism: From Gettysburg to Damascus

By Thomas DiLorenzo

''The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.''
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34807.htm



Media Lens debunks the BBC s humanitarian interventionists

By Neil Clark

If the public was better informed, and not so often misled by those in power, there would likely be a stronger rein on the governing elite.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34971.htm



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