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<blockquote data-quote="roadrunner2012" data-source="post: 1325191" data-attributes="member: 40736"><p><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/11/gop-hypocrisy-outraged-over-benghazi-silent-on-iraq.html" target="_blank">http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/11/gop-hypocrisy-outraged-over-benghazi-silent-on-iraq.html</a></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px">Fair use excerpt:</span></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>The creation of a House committee to study the attack on Benghazi raises the troubling question of why Congress has never bothered to scrutinize to the invasion of Iraq. </em></p><p><em>When I heard that the House of Representatives has <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2014/05/08/house-committee-to-investigate-benghazi.html" target="_blank">established a select committee</a> to investigate the attack on Benghazi that left several Americans dead in 2012, I couldn't help but wonder what these same legislators might have done had Barack Obama been president in 2003, and had the audacity of George W. Bush to attack a sovereign country that had no relevant connection to the 9/11 attacks with the result that nearly 5,000 Americans and well over 100,000 Iraqi civilians (many of them women and children) perished. Had Obama’s war in Iraq also cost American taxpayers $1.7 trillion, with another $490 in veteran expenses (thus far)—with a <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/14/us-iraq-war-anniversary-idUSBRE92D0PG20130314" target="_blank">total cost of $6 trillion</a> projected—I have no doubt that a select committee would long ago have sent him to the Hague for trial as a war criminal. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p> <em></em></p><p><em>It’s sad to think how in our fury over Benghazi we’ve almost forgotten a recent war that destroyed so many families, nearly bankrupted this country (and may yet), and led to a hugely destabilized Iraq that no longer serves as a buffer to Iran. Needless to say, this terrible war was pursued under false pretenses, with huge amounts of government corruption—Houston-based company KBR alone (a spinoff from Halliburton, where Dick Cheney was chairman and CEO before becoming vice president) racked up charges of nearly $40 billion during the war, making it (by far) the winner in the Iraq sweepstakes. In most banana republics, this would be cause for serious investigation; but not so much here, where our politicians (or their friends) are allowed to profit from <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/winner-most-iraq-war-contracts-kbr-395-billion-decade-1135905" target="_blank">armed invasions</a>. Can it possibly be so that the U.S. Congress has ignored such obvious corruption while investigating over and over whether Susan Rice was given some edited “talking points” on Benghazi? Really?</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="roadrunner2012, post: 1325191, member: 40736"] [url]http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/11/gop-hypocrisy-outraged-over-benghazi-silent-on-iraq.html[/url] [SIZE=1]Fair use excerpt:[/SIZE] [I] The creation of a House committee to study the attack on Benghazi raises the troubling question of why Congress has never bothered to scrutinize to the invasion of Iraq. When I heard that the House of Representatives has [URL='http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2014/05/08/house-committee-to-investigate-benghazi.html']established a select committee[/URL] to investigate the attack on Benghazi that left several Americans dead in 2012, I couldn't help but wonder what these same legislators might have done had Barack Obama been president in 2003, and had the audacity of George W. Bush to attack a sovereign country that had no relevant connection to the 9/11 attacks with the result that nearly 5,000 Americans and well over 100,000 Iraqi civilians (many of them women and children) perished. Had Obama’s war in Iraq also cost American taxpayers $1.7 trillion, with another $490 in veteran expenses (thus far)—with a [URL='http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/14/us-iraq-war-anniversary-idUSBRE92D0PG20130314']total cost of $6 trillion[/URL] projected—I have no doubt that a select committee would long ago have sent him to the Hague for trial as a war criminal. It’s sad to think how in our fury over Benghazi we’ve almost forgotten a recent war that destroyed so many families, nearly bankrupted this country (and may yet), and led to a hugely destabilized Iraq that no longer serves as a buffer to Iran. Needless to say, this terrible war was pursued under false pretenses, with huge amounts of government corruption—Houston-based company KBR alone (a spinoff from Halliburton, where Dick Cheney was chairman and CEO before becoming vice president) racked up charges of nearly $40 billion during the war, making it (by far) the winner in the Iraq sweepstakes. In most banana republics, this would be cause for serious investigation; but not so much here, where our politicians (or their friends) are allowed to profit from [URL='http://www.ibtimes.com/winner-most-iraq-war-contracts-kbr-395-billion-decade-1135905']armed invasions[/URL]. Can it possibly be so that the U.S. Congress has ignored such obvious corruption while investigating over and over whether Susan Rice was given some edited “talking points” on Benghazi? Really?[/I] [/QUOTE]
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