US Declassified Documents Reveal How Concocted Lies Trigger Wars – OpEd

By Jonathan Power*

President Barack Obama once observed, “ISIS [Islamic State] is a direct outgrowth of Al Qaeda in Iraq that grew out of our invasion—which is an example of unintended consequences—which is why we should generally aim before we shoot”.

Many of us, looking back at the horror of the Iraq war, waged by...