The Iraq Withdrawal and the Continuing Eruption of U.S. Militarism
Submitted on December 14, 2011
By Bill Van Auken - WSWS
In packaging the Iraqi troop withdrawal...as an end to war and fulfillment of his campaign promises, Obama is merely recycling the illusions he peddled in 2008. Then he pledged that his administration would represent a clean break with the criminal policies of the Bush administration. Nearly four years later, the US military is at war in more countries than under Bush, Guantanamo and its military trials, along with torture, continue, and the police-state measures imposed in the wake of September 11, 2001 have been substantially expanded.
