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Hendrik Hertzberg begins: "Speaking from the Oval Office last Tuesday evening to mark what he called, with more hope than precision, 'the end of our combat mission in Iraq,' President Obama had occasion to mention the previous occupant. 'This afternoon,' he said ..."

President Barack Obama listens intently at the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo, Norway, 12/10/09. (photo: Susan Walsh/AP)

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+3 # Guest 2010-09-07 04:29

Is this guy f-ing kidding? This is what I call "hard soft propaganda." Some of us ain't buying.

"No one can say whether the suffering of the Iraqi people would have been greater or lesser if Washington had not made its choice for war."

You're hurting my brain with this. Please stop! Oh, and please...to avenge his daddy?!!! Please, dude, you're killing me here.

+4 # Guest 2010-09-07 07:55

Absolutely correct nehark. The poor and decimated survivors of this atrocity probably "can say" with great authority on the subject,about the true nature of the suffering of the Iraqi people. I also love " war makers of the Bush Adm. probably believed these things were true", concerning the "intelligence" about WMD's. F me. The Bush adm. KNEW there weren't WMD's because if they had believed that for a second we wouldn't have invaded. The acquisition of nuclear weapons is what keeps other nations "from" invading you according to neo-conservative theory. That's why we are continually told we have to stop N.Korea and Iran NOW. 9/11 was planned and orchestrated by Cheney/Bush/Military Industrial Complex cabal to provide motive to go to Iraq. Pure and F*****g simple. Obama did nothing in that speech the other night except keep the big ball of American empire rolling smoothly across the veneered and smeared(with blood)oval office desk.

+6 # Guest 2010-09-07 05:39

I personally believe the two wars, one of which was unnecesssary and based on a series of Lies and deceptions, have caused one great worry in our country. And that worry is who is in charge of the Military??? Our Constitution says that the President of the US is the Commander in Chief. However, it is quite apparent that the Present Staff of our Military, including all serices, I may add, is that the President is not a former Military person, and therefore does not have the intelligence to see what is necessary, Military Wise.>>> That may be, but he is stil the commander in Cbief, and the position is empbhasized by the actions that John F. Kennedy took during the Cuban Missile Crisis. At that time, the Military, all
three branches, Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, wanted a Military solution, which would have created WWIII. But JFK
stuck to his guns and solved it with Non/Military decisions. So, a Civilian did the job as COC....Lets Let Obama alone....

-1 # Guest 2010-09-07 07:16

A puff piece. Anyone ho pretends that the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq can be discussed without mention of the 9-11 hoax and the carefully engineered demolition of the twin towers is a traitor to the people of The United States.

+4 # Guest 2010-09-07 08:19

The Bush II regime is just the first phase of the beginning of the end of empire

+4 # Guest 2010-09-07 08:36

Totally agree with DaveW. What's so frustrating to those of us who are convinced (through the vast amount of hard proofs) that this was indeed a False Flag event is the total black-out in the main media of any trace of the evidence available to anyone with an open mind. In effect, it appears they are getting away with this henious crime. Where are the Paul Reveres necessary to awake a significant number of us to force an independent investigation? WE MUST NEVER GIVE UP IF WE ARE TO RESPECT THOSE WHO DIED AND THE WISHES OF THEIR LOVED ONES.

+5 # Guest 2010-09-07 11:23

HH starts out by stating "no one can doubt President Bush’s support for our troops, or his love of country and commitment to our security." Well, I respectfully and forcefully disagree. Simply look at the results: Bush put our troops in harm's way. Thousands were killed; dozens of thousands were injured/maimed/ruined for life. Bush's actions undermined our security here and that of citizens abroad. Lastly, his love of country was as significant as a flag lapel pin. He raided the treasury to flood mercenary corporations with money while he and they committed war crimes.
So, to each component of HH's statement above, I say nay. I do in fact assert the opposite.

-1 # Guest 2010-09-08 03:12

Rick LeBeau, you nailed it. President Obama transmits the lies of his predecessor and once again implicates himself. If Bush were a patriot he would not have defecated on the American reputation and caused so many young men and women of our armed forces to die for no good reason. That Obama will not confront this makes him complicit. The whole thing is wretched, sordid and sickening and a reckoning is sure to follow. We used to be a model of freedom to the world and now we are reduced to being the world's biggest, and most shameless, bully. This whole mess is perverted. I never dreamed that the media could be so bought, the people so compromised and our leadership so corrupt. We have become the enemy we fought to destroy in WWII and evidently that's okay in the bastion of mafia style capitalism. We've lost any moral authority we ever had and this doesn't seem to bother us. In this climate, of course 9/11 could have been an inside job at that and the science supports this as well. Wake up people.

+1 # Guest 2010-09-08 06:18

To call either these two illegal invasions "wars" just perpetuates the Imperial American myth. America invaded both these countries as part of its Imperial plan and the fact that oil and strategic domination of the region were the real goals of invasion.

This article is a whitewash of the real situation. The Bush regime had all the intelligence and actual facts about Iraq prior to the invasion and chose to lie to the American people and the world about them. Tony Blair and George Bush should be in jail, not enjoying the "fruits" of their ill-gotten gains. These men are criminals as are those who assisted them in their lies and atrocities. Until justice is done and the real truth is told much of America will go on believing the myths that are continually passed off as "truth" by the media.

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