there4eyeM
unlicensed metaphysician
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The mission was NEVER accomplished. It was fucked up from start to finish. Bush, Cheney and company alienated the Iraqi people, installed an incompetent group of revenge minded Shi'ites in power, fired Saddam's Sunni army, leaving the most battled hardened force in the region with no jobs, no money, but they let them keep their weapons - leading directly to the creation of ISIS in 2006; Foolishly hired foreign contractors to rebuild infrastructure in Iraqi, while the Iraqi's had no jobs, no money, and no food, thereby alienating the rest of the Iraqi people; and negotiated the withdrawal of all US troops by 2010, so that the incoming administration would get blamed for the whole clusterfuck that was the failure of the Iraq invasion.[/QUOTE]
It was also illegal and a war crime.
The mission was NEVER accomplished. It was fucked up from start to finish. Bush, Cheney and company alienated the Iraqi people, installed an incompetent group of revenge minded Shi'ites in power, fired Saddam's Sunni army, leaving the most battled hardened force in the region with no jobs, no money, but they let them keep their weapons - leading directly to the creation of ISIS in 2006; Foolishly hired foreign contractors to rebuild infrastructure in Iraqi, while the Iraqi's had no jobs, no money, and no food, thereby alienating the rest of the Iraqi people; and negotiated the withdrawal of all US troops by 2010, so that the incoming administration would get blamed for the whole clusterfuck that was the failure of the Iraq invasion.[/QUOTE]
It was also illegal and a war crime.