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Responsibly Ending the War in Iraq

DNA : So, if 9/11 (Sept. 11, 2001) happened almost 10 years ago, then why are we still fighting over in Iraq?. Responsibly Ending the War in Iraq.

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Responsibly Ending the War in Iraq

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  1. DNA: So, if 9/11 (Sept. 11, 2001) happened almost 10 years ago, then why are we still fighting over in Iraq?

  2. Responsibly Ending the War in Iraq • "Today, I have come to speak to you about how the war in Iraq will end…Let me say this as plainly as I can, by August 31, 2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end," the President said on Feb. 27, 2009 at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. • "I want to be very clear," the President said. "We sent our troops to Iraq to do away with Saddam Hussein’s regime – and you got the job done. We kept our troops in Iraq to help establish a sovereign government – and you got the job done. And we will leave the Iraqi people with a hard-earned opportunity to live a better life – that is your achievement; that is the prospect that you have made possible." www.whitehouse.gov

  3. No End in Sight (2007) • It basically shows the Bush Administration's mistakes made after 9/11 concerning the invasion of Iraq, and its occupation of the country afterwards. Is there an end in sight? 1:42 min.

  4. No End in Sight: Wrap-up • There were terrible decisions immediately following the overthrow of Saddam: • no occupation plan • an inadequate team to run the country • insufficient troops to keep order • 3 acts from the White House announced by Bremmer when he took over: • no provisional Iraqi government • de-Ba'athification • disbanding the Iraqi armed services

  5. No End in Sight: Wrap-up • Charles Ferguson grimly reminds us that information about the absence of WMD's was ignored to further an agenda that began immediately after 9/11 with the order to confirm a link between Al-Qaeda and Hussein's Ba'athist regime. • If you want more insanity, how about the order to disband the entire Iraqi army and Ba'ath party members from government service. This, in 2004, brought an insurgency of Iraqi men who could have been serving in the local army. • Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's lack of preparation for post-invasion operations is just another depressing fact brought out by this surprising and dramatically compelling documentary.

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