MaggieMae
Reality bits
- Apr 3, 2009
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Were you still active-duty then, Commander?the fact remains: a majority of congressional democrats thought it was a bad idea to invade, conquer and oppupy Iraq in order to effect regime change and to rid Saddam of his (non-existent) stockpiles of WMD's.
try as they might, republicans cannot change the fact that they overwhelmingly supported our invasion of Iraq to rid Saddam of weapons he didn't have, and that invasion has had enormous easily calculated costs in blood and treasure, and not many calculable benefits.
Prior to the invasion of Iraq, Saddam and his secular baathists stood as a bulwark minimizing Iran's plans for regional theocratic hegemony. Now, Iraq is run by a shiite majority sympathetic to Iran and will, in all probability, closely align themselves with Iran upon our eventual departure.
Whether you were, or not...are you going to sit there and tell me you weren't chanting, "Bomb those fuckers!" when it was all going down??
I retired in '93, and no, I was appalled that we unleashed shock and awe on an arab city's population that had done NOTHING to harm us on 9/11.
I spent two years on active duty in Lebanon with the UN contingent there and I KNOW that the arab world's opinion of the USA is nowhere near as monolithic and negative and violent as the Bush administration would have had us believe.
The citizens of Baghdad were NOT our enemies, but now, as a result of our invading, conquering, and occupying their country.... many of them are.
I was 100% behind our early actions in Afghanistan and volunteered to go back on active duty to participate in that action. I have been dead set against our war in Iraq since before it started.
With the Iraq war among the various factions still going on, and the US still plunked right in the middle of it, the only accomplishments were the outrageous cost in lives and treasure and the fact that the invasion has resulted in pissing off every al-Qaeda wannabe all over the globe so that we now have to be afraid of every backpack inadvertently left in a subway station. And pray a lot.