Were Our Troops Recieved With Open Arms?

       Ya gotta love the British. The Chilcot report was just released and it pulled no punches. Sir John Chilcot, chairman of the committee who did the report on the Iraq War for the British said it like it was. The intelligence used to justify and promote the Iraqi war was deeply flawed and what's worse it was reported to the Prime Minister and his staff and presumably, the White House, that it was flawed. Never the less it was sold to the two governments as necessary and that immediate action was called for.
       The report also points out that the Weapons Of Mass Destruction (WMD) never existed and that  the assurances of an easy victory were poorly thought out and grossly misleading. The report also points out that no comprehensive plan for the aftermath was considered.
       It's too bad that America doesn't have a John Chilcot, or perhaps that no such person was allowed to give so complete a report on a war that has caused so much upheaval in the Middle East. I think we can lay the invasion to kill Saddam Hussein in which our troops would be greeted with open arms, squarely in the arms of an administration hell bent on getting their hands on Iraqi oil.
       We've seen no publication that has squarely laid the blame where it belongs. Our massive indebtedness and the loss of so many soldiers and the even greater number of injured, many who's lives are twisted and tortured for life are all a direct result of that war and the leadership who intentionally misled our government.
       The failure to bring such a report into being almost certainly opens the way to repeating the same mistake some time in the future. Forget that those who so cavalierly chose to send our youth into a war that should never have taken place, they were never officially chastised for those decisions. Which means that somewhere in the future leaders will believe they can do as they please without fear of reprisal. Ahh but then that's the American way.