The Iraq War

mmmmm cute prog responses...how I get so tired of em

Some things that are for sure, Iraq was a war and it was no different from all the others...

The grand irony to me was how the War on Terrorism is supposed to be an unconventional war, and against terrorism....
Seems to have been fought a pretty traditional way and against entire countries!

Poor wubya, to think he goes to bed every night thinking he was actually doing good for the world. Poor poor fool, no idea of the reality outside his bubble world created for him.


Edited by JJLehto - December 23 2011 at 15:44

Yeah ignore the "alternative guy/look at me" response.
Why bother with whatever you wanna call it? It just distracts from the wrong that happened.

Iraq is certainly no winner in this, while it's good Saddam is no longer around the sudden power vacuum has thrown the country into civil war. Maybe it would've happened anyway, but the whole "installing democracy" thing is just an utter mess. The US has now set Iraq back god knows how long...



Edited by JJLehto - December 23 2011 at 15:57

It was an invasion and then an occupation, but never a war. It's another joyous gallop in a foreign land led by American neo-conservative foreign policy. It exposed our sh*tty intelligence, destroyed our moral high ground on the world stage (assuming we still had any), bankrupted our nation, gave Muslim extremists another focal point in their homeland to wage an insurgency against an invader. It was a slaughter of brown people with a few thousand white coalition forces down. Now wait a few months until there is a Kurd uprising against the regime there and it further destabilizes. We're holding on so tightly to the hope that it works out in the end, but give it time. It'll be another Syria. And then what will we say? What we do now: "At least Saddam is dead." And how many Middle-Easterners need to die in the invasion, occupation, and destabilization for that not to matter any more?

Edited by stonebeard - December 27 2011 at 03:17

Wasn't McCain elected? I can't really tell.

Equality 7-2521 wrote: Wasn't McCain elected? I can't really tell.

 

manofmystery wrote: Equality 7-2521 wrote: Wasn't McCain elected? I can't really tell.   Yep   Let me be the first to say here that as bad as Iraq was Iran will be much much worse.  Already appear to be fighting a covert war against them and unless the one non-interventionist candidate gets elected I'm fairly certain we'll be at full blown ground war in a few years time.

^Yes, the true power is on the hands of ayatolah Khamenei.

I wouldn't support the US government interfering with anyone's internal affairs be it Irans, Venezuelas, or yours.