Ten years on, the enablers of
the Iraq war are still trying to justify their complicity.
By Mark LeVine
Al-Jazeera
".......In a different world, where journalists still had a shred of their former dignity, those who failed so miserably to do their jobs when they were most desperately needed would have left the profession, and devoted the last decade to working to redress the incredible harm this war did to the Iraqi people, never mind Americans and the world more broadly.
Instead, they merely write about their experiences and "hope [they] are the wiser now", which seems pretty unlikely given the continued sorry state of reporting about the Middle East.
Meanwhile, whatever good might somehow come to Iraq, the reality is that the war was and remains one giant war crime, not to mention the greatest theft of citizens' wealth in American, if not world, history (trillions of dollars and counting). As the drone wars heat up and the vioations of (once) Constitutional rights continues, the mainstream media remains largely compliant with Washington's agenda, regardless of which party is in power. Yet we were constantly learning just how brazen the administration lies were, with new evidence that the CIA and MI6 were told before the Iraq invasion that there were no WMDs......"
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