[Oldeconomybuyer]

[WilliamIII]

Why the cartoon of Obama? It was Bush who got rid of Saddam - and replaced him with a Shia government full of exiles who’d been living in Iran.

“You got rid of our biggest enemy - Sadda - and you turned Iraq into our closest ally.

Thank you George Bush!”

- Gratefully,
Iran

[samtheman]

I don't miss Saddam Hussein per se (wouldn't normally use that phrase but it really fits here)... but I do miss the pre-war political and military situation in Iraq:

Saddam was a Baathist who kept his foot on the neck of muslim fanatical fundamentalists (shiite and sunni) and the US military had absolute control of the skies over Iraq and in effect had its foot on the neck of Saddam.

It was a near-perfect situation (as near to perfect as is possible in that infinitely barbaric sh*t hole region of the world) and George W Bush, our President, went and f*'d it all up.

Followed by Barak Hussein Obama, our Dear Leader, who took a f*'d up situation and multiplied it by about a thousand.

And BTW (no one will convince me otherwise), Dear Leader was elected in 2008 precisely because of the invasion of Iraq.