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February 07, 2008

How we got into war

Day of Shame project

I've been so heartened by the blogging threads that are recognizing and analyzing the history of how the Iraq invasion and occupation happened five years ago. I especially want to thank Vastleft at Corrente for assembling the Day of Shame project and including Maine Owl's Five years ago in war... with a highly complimentary "highly recommended."

What's the point of doing all this? I have a brief answer: This history must not flush down the memory hole. Media never connects its responsibility for elevating as "compelling" the case Powell presented with the disaster of Iraq that has followed, even though the case was known to be faulty at the time. Vastleft has a good rundown of examples of this HERE.

And, I have an even briefer answer for why this history should be traced from our perspective: For the children. People will grow up not knowing how this war happened, but just accepting it as a horrible continuing fact of their lives. If the postings I have put up and others, like Vastleft, have put up can help just a few people peel back the veneer and gain insight based on analysis of real documents and real reporting, it will have been worth it. Mainstream media will be little help for the most part. It's up to us.

Posted by The Owl at 10:19. Filed under: Iraq

Comments

Owl, back at you for a nice shout out.

It (metaphorically) kills me, and (literally, tragically) kills others that no one outside of Helen Thomas has asked the question, "Why the f**k are we in Iraq?" http://vastleft.blogspot.co...

Posted by Vastleft on February 08, 2008 at 21:22

Hi vastleft, thanks for stopping. I should warn people that my comment parser will form you a link, but it doesn't take any html. I'll fix that! And thanks again...

Posted by The Owl on February 08, 2008 at 23:06

And on the substance of your comment, I read your post on Helen, my superhero. That chimperor session from a couple of years ago crossed my mind recently while I was looking at archive posts in the old blog: "Somebody to ask him why" http://deepblade.net/journa...

Posted by The Owl on February 08, 2008 at 23:17
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