Remember Iraq?

Hardly anyone in the U.S. seems to remember that we blew a trillion dollars to eliminate the existential threat of Saddam's Weapons of Mass Destruction™, and bring the blessings of freedom and democracy to the Iraqi people, which would then miraculously metastasize throughout the Greater Middle East™ and bring about everlasting peace.I spent much of the time whilst we were blowing that dough along with more than 4,000 American lives and, oh yeah, a few hundred thousand or a million Iraqis but who's counting, following events there very closely, as a contributor to Today in Iraq. (Now Today in Afghanistan, see the sidebar.) Actually, Americans pretty much forgot all about Iraq around 2007 or so, even though the last (officially acknowledged) U.S. troops didn't leave till 2011. So let's remember for at least a few seconds, okay?I don't need to remind you that the Weapons of Mass Destruction™ didn't exist. Perhaps you do need to be reminded that even if they had existed, they would not actually have been nearly as massively destructive as the weapons the U.S. used in Iraq; chemical weapons and anthrax are highly overrated. But I digress. How's that democracy thing coming?You probably won't have any idea if you rely on the U.S. corporate media for your information, but al Jazeera is reporting that the country is on the brink of renewed civil war; the alternative being that it break apart before that happens. At least 77 people are so far reported dead in sectarian violence ...
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