[Tea Party Terrorist]

Resurrect Saddam?

Invading Iraq was the biggest blunder is US foreign policy history.

Oh, and Bush gave us ethanol and banned Edison light bulbs too.

[davetex]

Shoot, he killed my dog and got my sister pregnant.

[Gene Eric]

>> Invading Iraq was the biggest blunder is US foreign policy history.

Opinions are not necessarily facts.

[phormer phrog phlyer]

Since returning from a year tour in Iraq in 08, I have often wondered what would happen to the country with the opportunity that was given to them. The answer is now coming in, and it does not look very good. The lives lost or altered all for seemingly nothing are an insignificantly small price to pay for the greater glory of our dear leader.

Our political masters treat us as less than serfs.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Invading Iraq was the biggest blunder is US foreign policy history."

Well, in war, we have become conditioned to believe that the right side wins. That was our story through the end of World War II. We could still believe it back then. But what we have learned since then is that the most brutal side, the strongest side, wins. We have tried to win wars by being nice, and it doesn't work. Our last clear victory in a major war was WW II, and we were brutal - atomic bombs, firestorms, hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths tolerated. It was not, according to progressive BS, "the good war." It was absolutely brutal, but we won.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”Invading Iraq was the biggest blunder is US foreign policy history.
Oh, and Bush gave us ethanol and banned Edison light bulbs too.”

Unfortunately you are right on all three.

I seem to recall that Rummy kept US troops outside Fallujah until after the 2004 election so as to not have casualties hurt GWBs chances in the election, letting many of the killers slip out.

Then he waited till Pelosi took the House in 2007 to go to congress for surge funding.

And GWBush got Obama elected, so it was all for nothing.

[lentulusgracchus]

Invading Iraq was the biggest blunder is US foreign policy history.

No, it wasn't. Saddam was a major sponsor of terrorism, which by 2003 was rapidly coming to be seen as a risk-free form of sub rosa statecraft. Remember, too, that Saddam had tried to assassinate Bush 41 out-of-office when he traveled to Kuwait to receive the grateful thanks of the emirates for the Gulf War. Saddam had come up as a professional assassin and gunsel, and he was applying his methods and attitudes to international politics.

The same people criticizing Bush and Rumsfeld over the Iraq War are the same ones who'd have said the same things if we'd moved in 1937 to kick Hitler out of the Rhineland and public office and nip World War II in the bud.

Oh, and Bush gave us ethanol and banned Edison light bulbs too.

Blame Archer-Daniels-Midland, its CEO Dwayne Andreas, and his army of K Street bag men for ethanol, and Dingy Harry and Nancy the Red and their neo-Stalinist Red/Green orcs for the incandescent-light ban.