Critique of Iraq War Policies

Is a proven fact. It's a proven fact that these forged documents

existed and were being circulated amongst right-wing

newspapers in Baghdad and around the world in the

immediate aftermath of the fall of the Iraqi regime.

Now, Senator,

I gave my heart and soul to oppose the policy

that you promoted.

I gave my political life's blood

to

try to stop

the mass killing of Iraqis by the sanctions

on Iraq, which killed a million Iraqis, most of

them children.

Most of them died before they even knew that they were Iraqis,

but they died for no other reason other than that they were

Iraqis with the misfortune to be born at that

time.

I gave my heart and soul to stop you committing the disaster

that you did commit in invading Iraq,

and I told the world that your case for the war

was a pack of lies. I told the world that

Iraq, contrary to your claims, did not have weapons of

mass destruction. I told the world, contrary to your

claims, that Iraq had no connection to Al-Qaeda.

I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no

connection to the atrocity on 9/11,

2001. I told the world, contrary to your

claims, that the Iraqi people would resist

a British and American invasion of their country, and that

the fall of Baghdad would not be the beginning of the end, but merely

the end of the beginning. Senator, in everything I

said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and

you turned out to be wrong, and 100,000 people have paid

with their lives. Sixteen hundred of them, American soldiers,

sent to their deaths on a pack of lies.

Fifteen thousand of them wounded, many of them disabled

forever, on a pack of lies.