US Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, a critic of her country’s recent missile strike on Syria, has warned that mistakes like the one which plunged the United States into Iraq War would increase “human suffering” on a large scale.
“We need to learn from Iraq and Libya — wars that were propagated as necessary to relieve human suffering, but actually increased human suffering many times over,” Gabbard said in an email to The Hill on Tuesday.
The Democratic representative from the US state of Hawaii noted that officials in the White House are ignoring the lessons of recent history after leaving the country mired in costly Middle Eastern conflicts for more than a decade.
“I and thousands of my brothers- and sisters-in-arms went to war in Iraq based on false intelligence and lies from our leaders — our president, military and political leaders. We should have been skeptical then, and we weren’t,” she said. “The cost was thousands of…