This year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington

This year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, DC will have an unusual event.The panel, “You’ve Been Lied To: Why Real Conservatives are Against the War on Terror” takes place on Saturday (Feb. 20) at 2pm. Participants are Antiwar.com columnist Philip Giraldi, Jacob Hornberger of the Future of Freedom Foundation, and former Pentagon official Karen Kwiatkowski. It is sponsored by the Campaign for Liberty and the Ladies of Liberty Alliance.e weren’t on the wrong side [in Vietnam], we were the wrong side. –Daniel Ellsberg, The Most Dangerous Man in America, via NewsBusters.orgAnd were we also the wrong side in the Korean “War”, Panama (Operation Just Cause), Grenada (Operation Urgent Fury), Iraq – - – you get the idea.Has this sort of behavior by the U.S. government — and other governments — becomeSOP (Standard Operating Procedure)?
And just in case you want a more complete accounting — and you have a bunch of spare time — here’s a more complete list of United States military operations.And if you’re morbidly curious of how many lives these sorts of operations have squandered — and have a strong stomach — you can find out from the University of Hawaii’s R.J. Rummel.And, if you’ve read this far and want to know how much you contribute to this mayhem if you consider yourself a U.S. Taxpayer, the kindly Quaker folks from the Friends Committee on National Legislation have figured that out for you. (HINT: 43% of your 2008 tax bill went to pay for “wars,” past and present.)