WASHINGTON (AP) — More than two decades later, Congress is on the verge of writing a closing chapter to the war in Iraq.
The Senate voted Thursday to repeal the resolution that authorized the 2003 U.S. invasion, following a House vote last month that would return the basic war power to Congress.
The amendment by Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, a Democrat, and Indiana Sen. Todd Young, a Republican, was approved by voice vote to an annual defense authorization bill that passed the Senate late Thursday — a unanimous endorsement for ending the war that many now view as a mistake.
Iraqi deaths were estimated in the hundreds of thousands, and nearly 5,000 U.S. troops were killed in the war after President George W. Bush’s administration falsely claimed that then-President Saddam Hussein was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction.
Bolded and italicized the important part, because for some reason it’s in the fourth paragraph instead of the first. Any story about Iraq should lead with the fact that the US was lied into it.
Bush told us it would be a quick war and definitely wouldn’t take more than a month or cost more than thirty billion, tops.
I will hate that son of a bitch until the day I die, and any politician or celebrity who normalizes him by being cordial in public.