Veterans Protest War As Dishonest In

Juan Cole 07/08/2004

Veterans Protest War as Dishonest

In a move reminiscent of the Vietnam era, some returning Iraq veterans are condemning the Iraq war as basically dishonest. They point out that no weapons of mass destruction have been found, even though that was the major pretext for the war.

[Am traveling; hope to post more Thursday afternoon].

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page