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Funny how the American sheeple are ignorant of this stupendous corruption carried out in their name.... where no one was held accountable by being jailed, impeached or even fired 
That's what happens when sheeple are thoroughly brainwashed by the corporate media matrix and too busy watching "reality TV"
Please return to your regular brainwashing 
The people who duped the United States into invading Iraq
by Arnaud De Borchgrave, Upi Editor At Large
Washington DC (UPI) Jun 19, 2014
It was dinnertime at the Vice President's house on Massachusetts Avenue eleven months before the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The discussion centered on the need to get rid of Saddam Hussein's Sunni dictatorship in Iraq and replace it with a democratic government. This, in turn, would trigger democratic changes in Israel's last hostile neighbor -- Syria.
On March 26, 1979, Egypt's Anwar Sadat and President Jimmy Carter signed the first peace treaty between Israel and an Arab nation. And on Oct 26, 1994, the late King Hussein of Jordan became the 2nd Arab leader to sign peace with Israel, putting behind them 46 years of hostility.
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction never came up once at VP Cheney's dinner. An invasion, the participants agreed, would be designed to trigger a democratic process in Iraq, thus completing a peaceful Arab circle around Israel.
This, in turn, would guarantee Israel peace for a generation.
These were noble motives but they had nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
Switch forward to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq and suddenly this was justified by Saddam's alleged arsenal of WMDs.
The evidence for Saddam's nuclear arsenal came from an Iraqi military defector who made his way to Germany and declined to continue his journey to the U.S. "Curveball" was his code name for the CIA and German intelligence.
Senior CIA officials flew to Germany to question him. And the Bush Administration swallowed his very detailed story.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair flew to Washington to address a joint session of Congress in which he proclaimed that Western civilization was itself under threat and tipped the balance in favor of a major military undertaking. The U.S., with some military input from Britain, agreed to invade Iraq with the stated purpose of destroying Saddam's nuclear arsenal.
The only problem with this save-the-civilized-world scenario: there was no such arsenal. Curveball later admitted he had made the whole story up to be reunited with his girlfriend in Germany.
America's top officials, led by Colin Powell, then Secretary of State, and George Tenet ("It's a slam dunk, Mr. President"), then the head of the CIA, told the U.N. Security Council that the U.S. had proof beyond the shadow of a doubt that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction that were a direct threat to Western civilization.
All this was pure fabrication by a phony defector from Saddam's military establishment.
The cost of the lies we chose to believe was over $1.9 trillion (CBO estimate of total cost to U.S, taxpayer), 4,486 U.S. military killed in action and 32,222 wounded. Three million Iraqis were displaced by the war and 601,027 were listed in "violent deaths."
The Center for Public Integrity alleged that the Bush Administration made a total of 935 false statements about Iraq's alleged threats to the U.S. between 2001 and when the U.S. invasion got underway in 2003.
That's what happens when sheeple are thoroughly brainwashed by the corporate media matrix and too busy watching "reality TV"
Please return to your regular brainwashing
The people who duped the United States into invading Iraq
by Arnaud De Borchgrave, Upi Editor At Large
Washington DC (UPI) Jun 19, 2014
It was dinnertime at the Vice President's house on Massachusetts Avenue eleven months before the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The discussion centered on the need to get rid of Saddam Hussein's Sunni dictatorship in Iraq and replace it with a democratic government. This, in turn, would trigger democratic changes in Israel's last hostile neighbor -- Syria.
On March 26, 1979, Egypt's Anwar Sadat and President Jimmy Carter signed the first peace treaty between Israel and an Arab nation. And on Oct 26, 1994, the late King Hussein of Jordan became the 2nd Arab leader to sign peace with Israel, putting behind them 46 years of hostility.
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction never came up once at VP Cheney's dinner. An invasion, the participants agreed, would be designed to trigger a democratic process in Iraq, thus completing a peaceful Arab circle around Israel.
This, in turn, would guarantee Israel peace for a generation.
These were noble motives but they had nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
Switch forward to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq and suddenly this was justified by Saddam's alleged arsenal of WMDs.
The evidence for Saddam's nuclear arsenal came from an Iraqi military defector who made his way to Germany and declined to continue his journey to the U.S. "Curveball" was his code name for the CIA and German intelligence.
Senior CIA officials flew to Germany to question him. And the Bush Administration swallowed his very detailed story.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair flew to Washington to address a joint session of Congress in which he proclaimed that Western civilization was itself under threat and tipped the balance in favor of a major military undertaking. The U.S., with some military input from Britain, agreed to invade Iraq with the stated purpose of destroying Saddam's nuclear arsenal.
The only problem with this save-the-civilized-world scenario: there was no such arsenal. Curveball later admitted he had made the whole story up to be reunited with his girlfriend in Germany.
America's top officials, led by Colin Powell, then Secretary of State, and George Tenet ("It's a slam dunk, Mr. President"), then the head of the CIA, told the U.N. Security Council that the U.S. had proof beyond the shadow of a doubt that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction that were a direct threat to Western civilization.
All this was pure fabrication by a phony defector from Saddam's military establishment.
The cost of the lies we chose to believe was over $1.9 trillion (CBO estimate of total cost to U.S, taxpayer), 4,486 U.S. military killed in action and 32,222 wounded. Three million Iraqis were displaced by the war and 601,027 were listed in "violent deaths."
The Center for Public Integrity alleged that the Bush Administration made a total of 935 false statements about Iraq's alleged threats to the U.S. between 2001 and when the U.S. invasion got underway in 2003.
