It’s important to understand how all of this comes together.
Twenty years on, listening to panels bringing together American and Iraqi perspectives of the 2003 war demonstrated that there remain, in emerging American narratives at least, two very different Iraq wars.
Desolation is what occurred.
The Iraq War wasn’t an honest mistake. It was a calculated effort executed to fulfill a political agenda.
Our leaders…say they want peace. And they’re all lying.
When the ICC began the process of investigating American war crimes in Afghanistan, the Trump administration sanctioned members of the ICC. The Biden administration dropped those sanctions, but they have made clear that they will not participate in the ICC.
People are still living with these wars. And they must be taken care of.
Most Americans don’t even understand that war is real when they are watching it on television.
This consistent line of violence directed against the Iraqi people to achieve American political aims had been established for decades.
I think it’s time for us as Americans to start questioning the assumptions we have in war and stop placing so much faith in what war can achieve for us overseas.