The attacks on 9/11 led the Bush/Cheney administration to double down on military action in its “global war on terror,” leading to disastrous invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq that further served to engorge the Complex with money and power. . ..…

Scott Ritter, U.N weapons inspector, noted just prior to the hearings, For Senator Biden's Iraq hearings to be anything more his committee will need to ask hard questions, concerning the real nature of the weapons threat posed by Iraq... But Biden had no intention of doing so,..…

WikiLeaks put on the map then low-level US intelligence analyst angered by the US wars Iraq and Afghanistan.. ... Justice Department said that in 2009, before Manning acted, WikiLeaks solicited specific classified materials involving the US wars Afghanistan and Iraq so that it..…