Today's tonic: "20 years after the Iraq War, it’s clear our elites learned no lessons"

Today's tonic from Taylor C. Noakes is a public historian and independent journalist: "20 years after the Iraq War, it’s clear our elites learned no lessons...Two decades on from the deceit and disaster of a war that claimed as many as one million Iraqi lives, no one has been held accountable...

"...If there were any justice in this world, Bush, Cheney, Blair, Powell, Rice, Wolfowitz (and 100s more) would have been tried — and likely convicted — of war crimes."  

"...In his recent retrospective on the Iraq War, former Bush speech writer David Frum claimed in The Atlantic that an arsenal of chemical warfare shells and warheads were found. In truth, no arsenal of chemical weapons was found in Iraq. What U.S. troops discovered were 1980s vintage, largely U.S.-supplied, chemical munitions so degraded they couldn’t be safely moved out of the country for disposal, and so were sealed up in bunkers back in the mid-1990s, under U.N. supervision.

"...If those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it, I fear for those whose past is actively being rewritten. What fate awaits us?

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2023/03/19/20-years-after-iraq-war-its-clear-our-elites-learned-no-lessons.html  

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