Watch: Rachel Maddow on the Bush Administration's Iraq War Lies
Now that combat operations have officially finished, credit where credit is due. Lie after lie after lie.
"On the day the war ends, what the war was for is sort of the elephant in the room. Congressional Republicans were actually more than eager to talk about Iraq today, but what they wanted to talk about was how President Obama should be thanking George W. Bush and should be apologizing for having opposed the surge..."
Watch Rachel fired up, AFTER THE JUMP...
OK, so we made it possible to hang Saddam Hussein, nearly ripping his head from his body. we further destabilized the middle east and sent thousands of young americans to their early deaths and life altering disabilities. yet, the monkeys who nearly bankrupted america continue to prosper and live life at ease. where is the justice in all of this rigmarole?
Posted by: nic | Sep 1, 2010 9:59:31 AM
While I'm glad our combat troops have withdrawn, We need to remember that we still have 50,000 troops there in an "advisory capacity". 3 troops were interviewed on ABC News last night. They were asked, "Has the mission changed?" Their answer, "No. It's still the same mission."
Also Huffington Post has an interesting article about how we have increased private security forces (Blackwater, etc.) while drawing down our combat troops.
Posted by: Matt | Sep 1, 2010 10:00:35 AM
Gotta LOVE her!
Posted by: Jeff in NC | Sep 1, 2010 10:30:54 AM
Yeah! You tell'm Rachel!
If I would have changed anything... it would have been to include the number of Iraqi dead. Our stupid GOP leadership may not have resorted to toxic gas, but I wouldn't doubt they've got more Iraqi blood on their hands than Saddam does.
Posted by: jexer | Sep 1, 2010 10:32:56 AM
don't loose sight of the fact that many democrats supported this war and also cited wmd's (see sen clinton speech on the senate floor before the war), freedom, etc
i say this not to prop up the gop - but instead to caution strict adherence to any either party's spin or their respective spin masters/madams
think for yourself and challenge everything you're being told - that's having real political power
fully following a party/their mouthpieces makes you simply sheep
Posted by: dvdinorl | Sep 1, 2010 10:35:21 AM
The long term result of our intervention will be that after our presence is completely withdrawn Irag will wind up as a conservative theocracy aligned with Iran and Syria against our interests ( and Israel's ) so that we will be completely screwed in the Mid - East and we will have Bush, Cheyney & Co. to thank for that situation.
Posted by: jerry | Sep 1, 2010 10:38:32 AM
While americans, including the present administration, may wish to turn the page on this debacle, the rest of the word will not easily forget "Shock and Awe" and the humiliation and torture of prisoners in Abu-Ghraib.
Everyone agrees...Saddam Hussein was a bad man. No one agrees on the reasons for this illegal and devastating war. Thank goodness the majority of free-thinking countries were not part of Bush's "coalition of the willing".
Posted by: excy | Sep 1, 2010 10:54:38 AM
This war has been a mess from day 1. Republicans and trying to pretend there was some massive victory - which there wasn't. Shame on Bush and shame on the snakes in the GOP.
Posted by: Beegee | Sep 1, 2010 10:57:35 AM
@NIC sometimes there is no justice in this world. However, karma has a way of adjusting the accounts for people like Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Boulton, et al.
They WILL get theirs.
I wonder what the GOProud girls have to say about all this?
Kudos to Rachel Maddow for revisiting the lies, treachery and deceit that got us into that despicable war.
We need the Rachel Maddows of the world to tell truth to power.
Bless those brave servicemen and women who were irresponsibly put into harm's way by Republicon ideologues and cowardly Democrats. Whatever we must do to help those men and women as they return home, let's do it.
Posted by: jamal49 | Sep 1, 2010 12:00:59 PM
You cannot equate the Bush administration's lies and deceit with Senator Clinton's believing those lies. Aren't we supposed to believe what our nation's intelligence agencies tell us?
No?
I guess that's why Condelezza Rice ignored the CIA and FBI when they said Osama bin Laden was 'determined to attack the United States.'
Posted by: Rodney Wollam | Sep 1, 2010 12:03:34 PM
This war will go down in history, as it should, as a massive, expensive blunder that helped send this country into financial ruin. History will also tar George W. Bush for not only the obvious blunder but also the deceit that germinated the blunder.
The tragedy, people died. A lot of people. A lot of ours, even more of theirs. It stripped away our umpteen trillions of dollars of tax money and gilded the path towards this countries financial ruin. And it also kept us from doing what most Americans wanted - catch the guy who plotted the World Trade Center bombing.
Thanks George. Thanks Dick. Thanks Donald. I only hope that someone gets the balls to indict you three (and others) for war crimes. It would be richly deserved.
Posted by: Bart | Sep 1, 2010 1:05:03 PM
One obvious thing here is that Obama needs to replace his speech writers with Rachel's... and replace his balls with her's as well.
Posted by: kansastock | Sep 1, 2010 1:06:09 PM
GREAT Speech Rachel !!
Posted by: Pedro Barbosa | Sep 1, 2010 3:55:25 PM
Time for war crimes trials.
Posted by: lewlew | Sep 1, 2010 4:22:54 PM
Whatever Rachel! Whatever!
Posted by: RB | Sep 1, 2010 7:07:16 PM
Hearing Bush speak still makes my skin crawl.
Posted by: Randy | Sep 1, 2010 7:12:18 PM