Just Saying | As if Iraq was not enough, they’re lying about Syria to wage war now

Yonden Lhatoo says the US and its allies have not only learned nothing from their disastrous invasion of Iraq, they’re using the same kind of lies to justify the same mistakes they’re making all over again, this time in Syria

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We’re being lied to about the need to bomb what’s left of that war-ravaged country, just like we were hoodwinked over Iraq 15 years ago. Photo: AFP

Published: 5:30pm, 21 Apr 2018Updated: 10:09pm, 21 Apr 2018

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” the old and oft-repeated aphorism goes.

Well, in this age of unreason, we remember the past all right, but we’re completely cavalier about repeating the mistakes of history. Learning lessons is for wimps in the new world order.

A textbook case of this is what’s happening right now in Syria. We’re being lied to about the need to bomb what’s left of that war-ravaged country, just like we were hoodwinked over Iraq 15 years ago.

Last week self-appointed global sheriff the United States and deputy dawgs Britain and France showered more than 100 missiles upon Syria, telling the world they were making our planet safer by punishing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for gassing his own people with chemical weapons.

more than 40 people were said to have been killed and hundreds injured when Assad’s air force dropped barrel bombs filled with toxic chemicals on the civilian population of Douma. Photo: AP

The casus belli this time was the Damascus suburb of Douma, where more than 40 people were said to have been killed and hundreds injured when Assad’s air force dropped barrel bombs filled with toxic chemicals on the civilian population.

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Just Saying | As if Iraq was not enough, they’re lying about Syria to wage war now