Redfish
Diamond Member
Fuck IraqActually they did before they were ISIS they were Al-Qaeda in Iraq and yes I know they began under Bush. Yes they were waiting to fill that void which was exactly what all of Obamas military advisors were telling him would happen if the U.S. withdrew to soon . The right answer was to listen to the advice of your military commanders and not withdraw till they told you they were confident the Iraqis could handle security. If he had done that and the Iraqi forces still failed after we left he could have then said he followed the advice of the military and did everything possible to help the Iraqis handle security.ISIS did not exist. They were waiting to fill the power void as soon as we vacatedHow many towns did ISiS control in January of 2009 when Obama was sworn in? How large an area of Iraq were they in control of at that same time? The fire was out.If the fire is put out and you let someone else start another one then it becomes your responsibility.
The "fire" was far from put out
It required a constant US police force to maintain order. Along with that mission came a monthly death toll
I am an American who is unwilling to pay that toll
That could have been one year.....could have been ten
Wouldn't have stopped them
If your answer is...then don't leave
it is the wrong answer
We gave them ten years of our soldiers being killed to fend off the inevitable. Iraq was going to fall to secular violence unless we were there to stop it
Bush (they will treat us as liberators) should have known better
His father did
Yep, fuck Iraq just like we fucked viet nam. let the thousands of great american kids die for nothing, You traitorous asshole.
We agree that we should never have been in either place, but when we do enter a war we should go in full bore and win it quick. THAT is the lesson of viet nam and Iraq.