A Soldier's Story: Bush, Cheney and the Lies That Killed

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A Soldier's Story: Bush, Cheney and the Lies That Killed
By Dan Harkins (
OpEdNews Op Eds 5/6/2013 at 19:59:46

Nobody likes being lied to, especially when tens of thousands of lives and trillions of tax dollars hang in the balance.

Some have perfected the fib to industrial strength. American leaders have a storied knack for inventing truths to stoke the flames of fear for war, but the fabricated set-up for the second Bush camp's post-9/11 ransack of Iraq, a decade-long hunt for the still-mythical lair called "Terror," was unprecedented in audacity. The lies flew by like machine-gun blasts, giving earlier efforts like the pre-Vietnam Gulf of Tonkin fairy tale the air of squirt-gun fire.

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As an Army veteran of the first Gulf War with the 82nd Airborne Division and a professional journalist for nearly 15 years, I have endured more than my share of deception. So no one can question my patriotism when I say that the greediest Americans in the uppermost minority are the masters of this deception, which not only regularly makes us all look like hypocritical heathens to the rest of the world, but sacrifices life after life, at home and abroad, to secure their reign and market dominance.

The examples abound, in plain view. Like: Bush Jr.'s Vice President Dick Cheney, Republican puppet-master all the way back to Nixon, secured for his former company Halliburton $40 billion in no-bid contracts to rebuild the oil and civil infrastructure that his toy soldiers had just decimated. Does anyone think this is a national secret contained within our borders for only us to dwell upon? (International Business Journal)