The mainstream media and the U.S. administration are claiming the war in Iraq has ended as 50,000 combat troops have left the region. However, Republican Congressman Ron Paul says it's not the end but rather an escalation.
During an Oval Office address on Tuesday, United States President Barack Obama stated that it was time to “turn the page” and announced that the combat mission in Iraq has come to a conclusion: “Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country.”
In an op-ed piece published on Campaign for Liberty, former Presidential candidate and longtime Congressman, Ron Paul, wrote that the war in Iraq has not ended and, instead, has escalated. Paul argues that this one of the administration’s “political maneuverings” and “semantics” in order to convince the general public that the war has to come an end: “However, military officials confirm that we are committed to intervention in that country for years to come, and our operations have in fact, changed minimally, if really at all.”
The author of “End the Fed” and “The Revolution: A Manifesto,” wondered if the U.S. government even knows how to an end a war anymore, which means, says Paul, to have all troops out of a foreign country, end the killing and getting killed and cease sending armed personnel to a country and draining “our treasury for military operations in that foreign land.”
