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MickeySwitch -> RE: The latest military general to say that Iraq war is a failure. (10/16/2007 8:48:20 AM)
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As I recall it, the first real reason given was by Rumsfeld, who said there were no more good targets to bomb in Afghanistan and there were much better targets in Iraq. Probably the only partially honest reason we've been given. After that it has been the shuffling random excuse of the week starting with bogus WMDs. And that was absurd to any thinking person at that time.
During the Cuban Missile crisis, Kennedy had PICTURES of soviet missiles. Shrub has 100 times the intelligence gathering capabilities than Kennedy could have ever hoped for -- and even with that Shrub has had zero confirmable intelligence about Iraq that could have justified his war. Saddam had been an asshole for decades and half of that time he was our ally ... so justifying war because he was an asshole never made sense. And bringing democracy to Iraq ... give me a break! We don't seem to give a damn about bringing democracy to our allies there. We are subverting the strong democratic base in Iran.
The Brits had confirmed they had BinLaden & his group IN SIGHT & IN RANGE while he was escaping in the early part of the war in Afghanistan and they were told by the US to stand down so that Americans could capture him ... but by the time the US forces arrived, he was gone.
It's always been about oil and showboating. All the rest is lies, wrapped in lies, topped with lies, with lies on the side. And our boys are dying so shrub can showboat. The even more pathetic part of this, he hasn't even been competant enough to get the damned oil. He's failed at his secret primary goal, and all of the excuses he claims he went there for as well. And now he & his bought-general Petraeus (who was appointed but never confirmed by the the Congress as law requires) are stalling so he can dump the whole fucking mess onto the next president. He's taken the largest budget excess & bankrupted our economy, he's spent everyone's social security for the next 20-30 years (& medicare as well). And recently he said, piss on the poor kids, they don't need health insurance. By the time he's done with our economy, (after the phony accounting is figured out), we'll be a third world nation like Argentina was a decade ago.
And the BS about "if we don't fight them there, they'll come here" ... hell ... he's the best terrorist recruiter that exists. We have 10 times as many terrorists to worry about now BECAUSE of Shrub. Old man Bush would have served his country better if his balls had been blown off instead of getting hit in the arm.
PROUD TO SAY I'VE VOTED AGAINST SHRUB 4 TIMES NOW. I knew he was a liar & a con man when he was running for governor.
And ... I'm sick & tired of everyone saying "our war" in Iraq, or "we" should not have gone in. BS: there is no 'WE' ... this war was unprovoked & unilaterally started by Bush, Cheney & Rumsfeld ... it's THEIR war & THEY should be held accountable for it.
And if you want to know what I REALLY think about Shrub ... just ask me when I'm PMSing.
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ORIGINAL: popeye1250
I'm still trying to figure out why we're in Iraq when BinLaden and al qeada are in Pakistan.
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