Brian Jones: “This week is the 10th anniversary of the unnecessary war in Iraq. I urge my fellow Members and the American public to…”

“This week is the 10th anniversary of the unnecessary war in Iraq. I urge my fellow Members and the American public to watch MSNBC's documentary, ``Hubris: The Selling of the Iraq War,'' on Friday night of this week at 9 o'clock. The documentary sheds light on the manipulated intelligence that got us into Iraq. Unfortunately, we have not learned from all we lost in Iraq, as President Obama has also committed us to an additional 10 years in Afghanistan thanks to a strategic security agreement he made without Congress voting on it or even debating it. This weekend I read two articles that really spoke to the corruption happening in Afghanistan. One was an AP article I read in my hometown paper titled: ``U.S. Helicopter Crashes in Afghanistan Killing One.'' And the other is from The New York Times titled: ``Afghans Protest U.S. Special Forces: Complaints about Night Raids Sparked Cause for Withdrawal.'' I will quote from the first article: The crashes come as United States officials are grappling with tough talk from President Hamid Karzai whose recent anti-American rhetoric has complicated relations at a time when international troops are withdrawing from the war. The article continues saying: Karzai started the week by accusing the United States and the Taliban of being in collusion on two deadly suicide bombings last weekend in an effort to create instability and give security forces an excuse to stay.…”