Remember the images of President Bush standing on the deck of our aircraft carrier 7years ago with the large banner that stated, "Mission Accomplished"?
Is this moment in history Obama's "Mission Accomplished"?
We're leaving 50,000 troops behind and are euphemistically calling them "advisors".
We have stationed 30,000+ troops in Korea for decades since hostilities ended there. Will we still have troops in Iraq 50 years from now?
Is there a stable government in Iraq? What did we accomplish? Do we have cheaper oil as was promised? No. None of these promises have been kept.
Yes, President Obama has wound down the Iraq War as he promised to do. He has kept his campaign promise to end this war.
But he has escalated the Afghanistan War to a level many Americans never anticipated and for what reason?
4,400 American soldiers lost their lives...their families , now suffering the loss of their son , daughters, husbands and fathers and mothers...$750 billion of our National Treasure squandered on a lie. Yes, a lie.
Did we find any WMDs? Where were the centrifuges and yellow cake?
Where are the Bush Administration indictments or will history be the indictment for those that lead this country into this unnecessary war?
Hindsight is always 20/20 unless you're the United States Government. We're making the same mistakes again in Afghanistan.
Americans are failing to hold our leadership accountable for these irresponsible decisions that waste American lives and what money we could be spending on infrastructure and investment into America's future.
Yes, our military performed valiantly. They're all heroes for doing what our country's leaders asked.
But what of our leadership? Should we ask more of them? Who holds our leaders in Washington responsible for selling the American people a bill of goods? Where are the WMDs?
Iraq was supposed to be working on a nuclear program. Was Saddam? Or was he just pretending to be so Iran would feel less inclined to attack Iraq?
America knew this and attacked anyway. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. We knew that too. But American's were lead to believe otherwise.
So, why weren't the WMDs found? Watch the movie, "The Green Zone" for the answer.
The inconvenient truth about America's Wars can be distilled from the many thousands of documents released by WikiLeaks.
Inconvenient because with out the truth, our government can continue to lie about the Afghanistan War and the reasons we're there.
When will this Nation be at peace? When will we learn to use our resources to build our nation rather than destroy someone else's country?
When will Americans stand up to our government and say enough war? Let's enjoy a time of peace and invest in America's prosperity. When?
Are you tired of war?
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