{"id":401084,"date":"2019-03-24T04:12:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T03:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-war-of-lies-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2019-03-24T04:12:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T03:12:19","slug":"the-war-of-lies-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-war-of-lies-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"The War of Lies – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sixteen years ago, the US and Britain committed a crime of historic proportion, the invasion and destruction of Iraq.\u00a0 It was as egregious an aggression as Nazi Germany\u2019s\u00a01939 invasion of Poland.<\/p>\n

Large numbers of Iraqi civilians died from 2003-2007. Iraq\u2019s water and sewage systems were bombed, causing widespread cholera.\u00a0 The UN estimated 500,000 Iraqi children alone died as a result. \u00a0Madeleine Albright, US Secretary of State, said it was \u2018a price worth paying.\u2019<\/p>\n

But not so much for the 4,424 US soldiers killed in Iraq, or the 31,952 wounded, many with devastating brain and neurological injuries.\u00a0 Nor for US taxpayers who forked out over $1 trillion for this botched war and are still paying the bill \u2013 which was hidden in the national debt.<\/p>\n

In 2003, Iraq was the most advanced Arab nation in social welfare health, education, military power, and industrial development.\u00a0 But it was run by a megalomaniac, Saddam Hussein, who had been helped into power and sustained in his long war against Iran, by the United States, Britain and their Arab satraps.
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When Saddam grew too big for his britches, Washington lured him into invading Kuwait, another American-British oil satrapy.\u00a0 A hue and cry went out from Washington and London that Iraq had secret nuclear weapons that threatened the entire globe.\u00a0 War, thundered US-British propaganda, was urgent and necessary.<\/p>\n

As I knew from covering Iraq for many years, it had no nuclear weapons and no medium or long-ranged delivery systems.\u00a0 What it did have was a chemical\/biological laboratory at Salman Pak that was staffed with British technicians producing lethal toxins for use against…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sixteen years ago, the US and Britain committed a crime of historic proportion, the invasion and destruction of Iraq.\u00a0 It was as egregious an aggression as Nazi Germany\u2019s\u00a01939 invasion of Poland. Large numbers of Iraqi civilians died from 2003-2007. Iraq\u2019s water and sewage systems were bombed, causing widespread cholera.\u00a0 The UN estimated 500,000 Iraqi children […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-401084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}