Never forget Iraq + Happy New Year: 2012 News Highlights (satire) by William Blum

by William Blum
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
www.killinghope.org
Jan. 3, 2012

Iraq. Began with big lies. Ending with big lies. Never forget.

“Most people don’t understand what they have been part of here,” said Command Sgt. Major Ron Kelley as he and other American troops prepared to leave Iraq in mid-December. “We have done a great thing as a nation. We freed a people and gave their country back to them.”

“It is pretty exciting,” said another young American soldier in Iraq. “We are going down in the history books, you might say.” (Washington Post, December 18, 2011)

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