If nothing else it's important to recall the glaring lies that led up to the launch of the disastrous Iraq War 15 years ago today.
Assured President George W. Bush shortly before the misbegotten Iraqi invasion that wiped out some 100,000 innocent lives:
"I have no war plans on my desk."
No, they were in the desk drawer.
The Downing Street Memo would expose how Bush and his warmongering cabal had contrived reasons to start an unprovoked war.
It was settled. They wanted to invade oil-rich Iraq all along. They just needed a good reason. A reason that a vulnerable American citizenry, still reeling in the wake of 9/11, would buy.
The painful impact of the Iraq war reverberates today and likely will for decades to come. It created today's scourge of ISIS.
Lies can have devestating consequences. They cripple and kill. They perpetuate pain.
As it's been said and written, those who fail to learn from the mistakes of the past, are doomed to repeat them.
That's something for Americans to keep in mind, particularly with the present unprecedentedly disingenuous oval office occupier making sporadic aggressions towards Iran and North Korea.
