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Imbecile ... even the troops there knew they got screwed. You sound like Baghdad Bob.And they got screwed as a reward because the administration listened to guys like Rumsfeld and Cheney instead of the military leaders who knew what they were talking about.
stripes.com/news/3rd-id-troops-ordered-to-stay-in-iraq-1.6124
But hey, maybe stripes is a biased source.
Nobody got "screwed" except Baghdad Bob, asshole.....you don't know anything about it.
If there were enough troops, why did troops who were scheduled to be replaced have their deployment extended instead?There WAS enough troops to Liberate Iraq!Plenty of military experts advised for the need of more troops, including Secretary of the Army Shinseki and Gen. Colin Powell.Only a simple minded party hack would post that,The media and our not so honorable Dems most certainly made things worse,more live lost more destruction.One would have to openly lie or have head so far up ons ass to think otherwise.Imbecile.... not one of those quotes extended the war. The war took as long as it did because we had an idiot as commander-in-chief who ignored advice and neglected to send in sufficient troops to squash the insurgency which follows Shock and Awe.You really are insane, I don't care what anybody says....
"The main reason we went into Iraq, at the time, was we thought he had weapons of mass destruction." - Duhbya
That's bullshit too. In reality, it wasn't a reason for invading, Bush regretted saying it. And he said that after we invaded in response to a growing insurgency that was unexpected after declaring we prevailed in the battle of Iraq while standing under a "mission accomplished" banner.
And bring it on they did. What was supposed to be a six month war at most -- turned into a 9 year war.
YOU f..king traitorous IDIOT!!!
Right... it took longer because we had TRAITORS LIKE YOU here in the USA including the MSM that repeatedly helped encourage the terrorists to kill 100,000s Iraqis and US troops with statements that have BEEN PROVEN by a Harvard study to prolong yes even THWART the liberation efforts!
Check out this you idiots that don't have one bit of common sense and don't understand that "WORDS HAVE MEANINGS"!!!!
The Harvard Study asked: THE EMBOLDENMENT EFFECT
"Are insurgents in Iraq emboldened by voices in the news media expressing dissent or calling for troop withdrawals from Iraq?
The resounding answer WAS YES!!! according to Radha Iyengar, a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in health policy research at Harvard and Jonathan Monten of the Belfer Center at the university's Kennedy School of Government.
Using data on attacks and variation in access to international news across Iraqi provinces, we identify an “emboldenment” effect by comparing the rate of insurgent attacks in areas with higher and lower access to information about U.S news after public statements critical of the war.
In Iraqi provinces that were broadly comparable in social and economic terms, attacks increased between 7 percent and 10 percent following what the researchers call "high-mention weeks," like the two just before the November 2006 election.
And these statements which idiots like YOU most likely agreed with did everything in the world to encourage recruit and reward the terrorists to continue.
Senator Kerry (D) "American soldiers going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children."
Remember Kerry EARLIER SAID...
"Without a question, we need to disarm Saddam. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an
oppressive regime .... to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction
.... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real ...."Kerry , Jan. 23. 2003
U.S. Rep. John Murtha(D)"Our troops killed innocent civilians in cold blood,”
Durbin (D) "must have been done by Nazis, Soviets"--action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners.
then Senator Obama said "troops are air-raiding villages and killing civilians,"
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid(D) "The war is lost, the surge is not accomplishing anything "
These comments inflamed the terrorists AND demoralized our troops at the same time!
And finally consider what the Iraqi people think about idiots like you and the above that DIDN"T WANT THEM to be free!!!
"So the Iraq war was, despite all that went wrong, a good thing; the "overwhelming majority" of Iraqis are (and presumably feel) better off because of it"
The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg put the question to Barham Salih, the former prime minister of Iraqi Kurdistan's regional government and a former deputy prime minister of Iraq's federal government.
"But," he added, "it's important to understand where we started from. ...
Literally hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were sent to mass graves.
Ten years on from the demise of Saddam Hussein, we're still discovering mass graves across Iraq.
And Iraqis are better off without Saddam Hussein --
the overwhelming majority of Iraqis are better off without Saddam Hussein."
So the Iraq war was, despite all that went wrong, a good thing; the "overwhelming majority" of Iraqis are (and presumably feel) better off because of it; and the fault for all that has gone wrong is ultimately with Iraqis themselves: It's a remarkable point of view to encounter in June 2013.
10 Years After the Fall of Saddam How Do Iraqis Look Back on the War - The Atlantic
Below is a link to an objective analysis of the debate as it was being held in 2006.
the-american-interest.com/2006/09/01/the-numbers-racket/
The 2003 Mission Accomplished speech gets its name from a banner that read "Mission Accomplished" displayed on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln during a televised address by United States President George W. Bush on May 1, 2003 and the controversy that followed.
Bush stated at the time that this was the end to major combat operations in Iraq. Bush's assertion—and the sign itself—became controversial after guerrilla warfare in Iraq increased during the Iraqi insurgency. The vast majority of casualties, both military and civilian, occurred after the speech.
He was RIGHT!
The number of troops to Liberate Iraq was enough!
What Bush misjudged was the traitorous statements made by people like the below that according to the Harvard study prolonged the conflict!
Statements like these HELPED the terrorists! Encouraged the Terrorists!
Senator Kerry (D) "American soldiers going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children."
Remember Kerry EARLIER SAID...
"Without a question, we need to disarm Saddam. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an
oppressive regime .... to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction
.... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real ...."Kerry , Jan. 23. 2003
U.S. Rep. John Murtha(D)"Our troops killed innocent civilians in cold blood,”
Durbin (D) "must have been done by Nazis, Soviets"--action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners.
then Senator Obama said "troops are air-raiding villages and killing civilians,"
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid(D) "The war is lost, the surge is not accomplishing anything "
Imbecile ... even the troops there knew they got screwed. You sound like Baghdad Bob.
"When 1st AD came in, we thought we were leaving," said Sgt. Larry Wisor, 26, of Buffalo, N.Y. "Now, morale is at an all-time low."
Oh? How did their words cost lives and make things worse?Only a simple minded party hack would post that,The media and our not so honorable Dems most certainly made things worse,more live lost more destruction.One would have to openly lie or have head so far up ons ass to think otherwise.Imbecile.... not one of those quotes extended the war. The war took as long as it did because we had an idiot as commander-in-chief who ignored advice and neglected to send in sufficient troops to squash the insurgency which follows Shock and Awe.You really are insane, I don't care what anybody says....We didn't go in for the WMDs....
"The main reason we went into Iraq, at the time, was we thought he had weapons of mass destruction." - Duhbya
... we went in to draw in the thousands of AQ fighters who ran from Afghanistan....that's what "Bring it ON" was all about
That's bullshit too. In reality, it wasn't a reason for invading, Bush regretted saying it. And he said that after we invaded in response to a growing insurgency that was unexpected after declaring we prevailed in the battle of Iraq while standing under a "mission accomplished" banner.
And bring it on they did. What was supposed to be a six month war at most -- turned into a 9 year war.
YOU f..king traitorous IDIOT!!!
Right... it took longer because we had TRAITORS LIKE YOU here in the USA including the MSM that repeatedly helped encourage the terrorists to kill 100,000s Iraqis and US troops with statements that have BEEN PROVEN by a Harvard study to prolong yes even THWART the liberation efforts!
Check out this you idiots that don't have one bit of common sense and don't understand that "WORDS HAVE MEANINGS"!!!!
The Harvard Study asked: THE EMBOLDENMENT EFFECT
"Are insurgents in Iraq emboldened by voices in the news media expressing dissent or calling for troop withdrawals from Iraq?
The resounding answer WAS YES!!! according to Radha Iyengar, a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in health policy research at Harvard and Jonathan Monten of the Belfer Center at the university's Kennedy School of Government.
Using data on attacks and variation in access to international news across Iraqi provinces, we identify an “emboldenment” effect by comparing the rate of insurgent attacks in areas with higher and lower access to information about U.S news after public statements critical of the war.
In Iraqi provinces that were broadly comparable in social and economic terms, attacks increased between 7 percent and 10 percent following what the researchers call "high-mention weeks," like the two just before the November 2006 election.
And these statements which idiots like YOU most likely agreed with did everything in the world to encourage recruit and reward the terrorists to continue.
Senator Kerry (D) "American soldiers going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children."
Remember Kerry EARLIER SAID...
"Without a question, we need to disarm Saddam. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an
oppressive regime .... to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction
.... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real ...."Kerry , Jan. 23. 2003
U.S. Rep. John Murtha(D)"Our troops killed innocent civilians in cold blood,”
Durbin (D) "must have been done by Nazis, Soviets"--action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners.
then Senator Obama said "troops are air-raiding villages and killing civilians,"
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid(D) "The war is lost, the surge is not accomplishing anything "
These comments inflamed the terrorists AND demoralized our troops at the same time!
And finally consider what the Iraqi people think about idiots like you and the above that DIDN"T WANT THEM to be free!!!
"So the Iraq war was, despite all that went wrong, a good thing; the "overwhelming majority" of Iraqis are (and presumably feel) better off because of it"
The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg put the question to Barham Salih, the former prime minister of Iraqi Kurdistan's regional government and a former deputy prime minister of Iraq's federal government.
"But," he added, "it's important to understand where we started from. ...
Literally hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were sent to mass graves.
Ten years on from the demise of Saddam Hussein, we're still discovering mass graves across Iraq.
And Iraqis are better off without Saddam Hussein --
the overwhelming majority of Iraqis are better off without Saddam Hussein."
So the Iraq war was, despite all that went wrong, a good thing; the "overwhelming majority" of Iraqis are (and presumably feel) better off because of it; and the fault for all that has gone wrong is ultimately with Iraqis themselves: It's a remarkable point of view to encounter in June 2013.
10 Years After the Fall of Saddam How Do Iraqis Look Back on the War - The Atlantic
Guess what, poser ... ?Imbecile ... even the troops there knew they got screwed. You sound like Baghdad Bob.
"When 1st AD came in, we thought we were leaving," said Sgt. Larry Wisor, 26, of Buffalo, N.Y. "Now, morale is at an all-time low."
You never served...you know nothing about service, Iraq, or WMDs....get out of this thread until you do.
what does service have to do with wmd's?Imbecile ... even the troops there knew they got screwed. You sound like Baghdad Bob.
"When 1st AD came in, we thought we were leaving," said Sgt. Larry Wisor, 26, of Buffalo, N.Y. "Now, morale is at an all-time low."
You never served...you know nothing about service, Iraq, or WMDs....get out of this thread until you do.
what does service have to do with wmd's?
what does it have to do with the motivations for the invasion?
why do you pretend to be something you aren't?
Having another meltdown fake Marine? It seems to be taking less and less effort to watch you go into total asshole jackass mode.Guess what, poser ... ?
When you're old enough to start using tampons make sure you don't stick them in your ass....doesn't work that way, Fawn.
do you feel good about being a liar?what does service have to do with wmd's?
what does it have to do with the motivations for the invasion?
why do you pretend to be something you aren't?
Why do you have a screen name that looks like a 2 year old typed it?
I'm sick of you leftist jokes mouthing off about something you know nothing about....I know that's your thing but I've put up with all of it I care to. Find somebody else's time to waste ya nutless little toad.
And they got screwed as a reward because the administration listened to guys like Rumsfeld and Cheney instead of the military leaders who knew what they were talking about.
stripes.com/news/3rd-id-troops-ordered-to-stay-in-iraq-1.6124
But hey, maybe stripes is a biased source.
Nobody got "screwed" except Baghdad Bob, asshole.....you don't know anything about it.
I already know you can't refute anything I say. Who knows why you insist on reaffirming it?Guess what, poser ... ?
When you're old enough to start using tampons make sure you don't stick them in your ass....doesn't work that way, Fawn.
Oh? How did their words cost lives and make things worse?Only a simple minded party hack would post that,The media and our not so honorable Dems most certainly made things worse,more live lost more destruction.One would have to openly lie or have head so far up ons ass to think otherwise.Imbecile.... not one of those quotes extended the war. The war took as long as it did because we had an idiot as commander-in-chief who ignored advice and neglected to send in sufficient troops to squash the insurgency which follows Shock and Awe.You really are insane, I don't care what anybody says....We didn't go in for the WMDs....
"The main reason we went into Iraq, at the time, was we thought he had weapons of mass destruction." - Duhbya
... we went in to draw in the thousands of AQ fighters who ran from Afghanistan....that's what "Bring it ON" was all about
That's bullshit too. In reality, it wasn't a reason for invading, Bush regretted saying it. And he said that after we invaded in response to a growing insurgency that was unexpected after declaring we prevailed in the battle of Iraq while standing under a "mission accomplished" banner.
And bring it on they did. What was supposed to be a six month war at most -- turned into a 9 year war.
YOU f..king traitorous IDIOT!!!
Right... it took longer because we had TRAITORS LIKE YOU here in the USA including the MSM that repeatedly helped encourage the terrorists to kill 100,000s Iraqis and US troops with statements that have BEEN PROVEN by a Harvard study to prolong yes even THWART the liberation efforts!
Check out this you idiots that don't have one bit of common sense and don't understand that "WORDS HAVE MEANINGS"!!!!
The Harvard Study asked: THE EMBOLDENMENT EFFECT
"Are insurgents in Iraq emboldened by voices in the news media expressing dissent or calling for troop withdrawals from Iraq?
The resounding answer WAS YES!!! according to Radha Iyengar, a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in health policy research at Harvard and Jonathan Monten of the Belfer Center at the university's Kennedy School of Government.
Using data on attacks and variation in access to international news across Iraqi provinces, we identify an “emboldenment” effect by comparing the rate of insurgent attacks in areas with higher and lower access to information about U.S news after public statements critical of the war.
In Iraqi provinces that were broadly comparable in social and economic terms, attacks increased between 7 percent and 10 percent following what the researchers call "high-mention weeks," like the two just before the November 2006 election.
And these statements which idiots like YOU most likely agreed with did everything in the world to encourage recruit and reward the terrorists to continue.
Senator Kerry (D) "American soldiers going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children."
Remember Kerry EARLIER SAID...
"Without a question, we need to disarm Saddam. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an
oppressive regime .... to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction
.... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real ...."Kerry , Jan. 23. 2003
U.S. Rep. John Murtha(D)"Our troops killed innocent civilians in cold blood,”
Durbin (D) "must have been done by Nazis, Soviets"--action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners.
then Senator Obama said "troops are air-raiding villages and killing civilians,"
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid(D) "The war is lost, the surge is not accomplishing anything "
These comments inflamed the terrorists AND demoralized our troops at the same time!
And finally consider what the Iraqi people think about idiots like you and the above that DIDN"T WANT THEM to be free!!!
"So the Iraq war was, despite all that went wrong, a good thing; the "overwhelming majority" of Iraqis are (and presumably feel) better off because of it"
The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg put the question to Barham Salih, the former prime minister of Iraqi Kurdistan's regional government and a former deputy prime minister of Iraq's federal government.
"But," he added, "it's important to understand where we started from. ...
Literally hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were sent to mass graves.
Ten years on from the demise of Saddam Hussein, we're still discovering mass graves across Iraq.
And Iraqis are better off without Saddam Hussein --
the overwhelming majority of Iraqis are better off without Saddam Hussein."
So the Iraq war was, despite all that went wrong, a good thing; the "overwhelming majority" of Iraqis are (and presumably feel) better off because of it; and the fault for all that has gone wrong is ultimately with Iraqis themselves: It's a remarkable point of view to encounter in June 2013.
10 Years After the Fall of Saddam How Do Iraqis Look Back on the War - The Atlantic
the WMD's could have gone anywhere ... because there were no WMD's to go anywhere.
End of story.
ESAD loser....you're nothin but a stinkin troll.
Thousands of American Soldiers got killed because of the FUBAR occupation.
Unknown number of civilians were killed because of the same.
American TaxPayers got screwed out of hundreds of billions.
Who was the decider in chief?
you post a story from 2003 and call ME a troll ?
you're an idiot so I'm not offended ... use all the four letter words you want, I'm not impressed .. you're a poser, I'm laughing at you.
2 out of 3 ups your average doesn't it?
So you're saying American's rightwing is responsible for additional attacks by ISIS since they're vocally critical of the way Obama's running the war against them?Oh? How did their words cost lives and make things worse?Only a simple minded party hack would post that,The media and our not so honorable Dems most certainly made things worse,more live lost more destruction.One would have to openly lie or have head so far up ons ass to think otherwise.Imbecile.... not one of those quotes extended the war. The war took as long as it did because we had an idiot as commander-in-chief who ignored advice and neglected to send in sufficient troops to squash the insurgency which follows Shock and Awe.You really are insane, I don't care what anybody says....
"The main reason we went into Iraq, at the time, was we thought he had weapons of mass destruction." - Duhbya
That's bullshit too. In reality, it wasn't a reason for invading, Bush regretted saying it. And he said that after we invaded in response to a growing insurgency that was unexpected after declaring we prevailed in the battle of Iraq while standing under a "mission accomplished" banner.
And bring it on they did. What was supposed to be a six month war at most -- turned into a 9 year war.
YOU f..king traitorous IDIOT!!!
Right... it took longer because we had TRAITORS LIKE YOU here in the USA including the MSM that repeatedly helped encourage the terrorists to kill 100,000s Iraqis and US troops with statements that have BEEN PROVEN by a Harvard study to prolong yes even THWART the liberation efforts!
Check out this you idiots that don't have one bit of common sense and don't understand that "WORDS HAVE MEANINGS"!!!!
The Harvard Study asked: THE EMBOLDENMENT EFFECT
"Are insurgents in Iraq emboldened by voices in the news media expressing dissent or calling for troop withdrawals from Iraq?
The resounding answer WAS YES!!! according to Radha Iyengar, a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in health policy research at Harvard and Jonathan Monten of the Belfer Center at the university's Kennedy School of Government.
Using data on attacks and variation in access to international news across Iraqi provinces, we identify an “emboldenment” effect by comparing the rate of insurgent attacks in areas with higher and lower access to information about U.S news after public statements critical of the war.
In Iraqi provinces that were broadly comparable in social and economic terms, attacks increased between 7 percent and 10 percent following what the researchers call "high-mention weeks," like the two just before the November 2006 election.
And these statements which idiots like YOU most likely agreed with did everything in the world to encourage recruit and reward the terrorists to continue.
Senator Kerry (D) "American soldiers going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children."
Remember Kerry EARLIER SAID...
"Without a question, we need to disarm Saddam. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an
oppressive regime .... to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction
.... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real ...."Kerry , Jan. 23. 2003
U.S. Rep. John Murtha(D)"Our troops killed innocent civilians in cold blood,”
Durbin (D) "must have been done by Nazis, Soviets"--action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners.
then Senator Obama said "troops are air-raiding villages and killing civilians,"
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid(D) "The war is lost, the surge is not accomplishing anything "
These comments inflamed the terrorists AND demoralized our troops at the same time!
And finally consider what the Iraqi people think about idiots like you and the above that DIDN"T WANT THEM to be free!!!
"So the Iraq war was, despite all that went wrong, a good thing; the "overwhelming majority" of Iraqis are (and presumably feel) better off because of it"
The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg put the question to Barham Salih, the former prime minister of Iraqi Kurdistan's regional government and a former deputy prime minister of Iraq's federal government.
"But," he added, "it's important to understand where we started from. ...
Literally hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were sent to mass graves.
Ten years on from the demise of Saddam Hussein, we're still discovering mass graves across Iraq.
And Iraqis are better off without Saddam Hussein --
the overwhelming majority of Iraqis are better off without Saddam Hussein."
So the Iraq war was, despite all that went wrong, a good thing; the "overwhelming majority" of Iraqis are (and presumably feel) better off because of it; and the fault for all that has gone wrong is ultimately with Iraqis themselves: It's a remarkable point of view to encounter in June 2013.
10 Years After the Fall of Saddam How Do Iraqis Look Back on the War - The Atlantic
Did you read the Harvard study above?
The resounding answer WAS YES!!! according to Radha Iyengar, a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in health policy research at Harvard and Jonathan Monten of the Belfer Center at the university's Kennedy School of Government.
Using data on attacks and variation in access to international news across Iraqi provinces, we identify an “emboldenment” effect by comparing the rate of insurgent attacks in areas with higher and lower access to information about U.S news after public statements critical of the war.
In Iraqi provinces that were broadly comparable in social and economic terms, attacks increased between 7 percent and 10 percent following what the researchers call "high-mention weeks," like the two just before the November 2006 election.
But you idiots don't get it do you?
Why are you writing crap? What purpose does your writing words do?
Obviously you want to influence people's thinking why else are you are this forum?
So that be obvious...YOU use words to influence people to action!
These words influenced ACTIONS!!
Senator Kerry (D) "American soldiers going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children."
U.S. Rep. John Murtha(D)"Our troops killed innocent civilians in cold blood,”
Durbin (D) "must have been done by Nazis, Soviets"--action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners.
then Senator Obama said "troops are air-raiding villages and killing civilians,"
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid(D) "The war is lost, the surge is not accomplishing anything "
You accuse Bush of USING words to LIE to people! Bush's words influenced actions!
Well the above idiots KNOWING the power of their words went ahead and called our troops "terrorists".."civilian killers"..."Nazis"..."cold blooded killers"!
You don't think these words were not used by terrorists to recruit terrorists?
That's the point of using these words to influence actions...in this case the above traitors words "INFLUENCED" terrorists to recruit...just as the Harvard study said!
YOU f...king traitor!So you're saying American's rightwing is responsible for additional attacks by ISIS since they're vocally critical of the way Obama's running the war against them?Oh? How did their words cost lives and make things worse?Only a simple minded party hack would post that,The media and our not so honorable Dems most certainly made things worse,more live lost more destruction.One would have to openly lie or have head so far up ons ass to think otherwise.Imbecile.... not one of those quotes extended the war. The war took as long as it did because we had an idiot as commander-in-chief who ignored advice and neglected to send in sufficient troops to squash the insurgency which follows Shock and Awe.YOU f..king traitorous IDIOT!!!
Right... it took longer because we had TRAITORS LIKE YOU here in the USA including the MSM that repeatedly helped encourage the terrorists to kill 100,000s Iraqis and US troops with statements that have BEEN PROVEN by a Harvard study to prolong yes even THWART the liberation efforts!
Check out this you idiots that don't have one bit of common sense and don't understand that "WORDS HAVE MEANINGS"!!!!
The Harvard Study asked: THE EMBOLDENMENT EFFECT
"Are insurgents in Iraq emboldened by voices in the news media expressing dissent or calling for troop withdrawals from Iraq?
The resounding answer WAS YES!!! according to Radha Iyengar, a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in health policy research at Harvard and Jonathan Monten of the Belfer Center at the university's Kennedy School of Government.
Using data on attacks and variation in access to international news across Iraqi provinces, we identify an “emboldenment” effect by comparing the rate of insurgent attacks in areas with higher and lower access to information about U.S news after public statements critical of the war.
In Iraqi provinces that were broadly comparable in social and economic terms, attacks increased between 7 percent and 10 percent following what the researchers call "high-mention weeks," like the two just before the November 2006 election.
And these statements which idiots like YOU most likely agreed with did everything in the world to encourage recruit and reward the terrorists to continue.
Senator Kerry (D) "American soldiers going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children."
Remember Kerry EARLIER SAID...
"Without a question, we need to disarm Saddam. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an
oppressive regime .... to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction
.... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real ...."Kerry , Jan. 23. 2003
U.S. Rep. John Murtha(D)"Our troops killed innocent civilians in cold blood,”
Durbin (D) "must have been done by Nazis, Soviets"--action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners.
then Senator Obama said "troops are air-raiding villages and killing civilians,"
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid(D) "The war is lost, the surge is not accomplishing anything "
These comments inflamed the terrorists AND demoralized our troops at the same time!
And finally consider what the Iraqi people think about idiots like you and the above that DIDN"T WANT THEM to be free!!!
"So the Iraq war was, despite all that went wrong, a good thing; the "overwhelming majority" of Iraqis are (and presumably feel) better off because of it"
The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg put the question to Barham Salih, the former prime minister of Iraqi Kurdistan's regional government and a former deputy prime minister of Iraq's federal government.
"But," he added, "it's important to understand where we started from. ...
Literally hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were sent to mass graves.
Ten years on from the demise of Saddam Hussein, we're still discovering mass graves across Iraq.
And Iraqis are better off without Saddam Hussein --
the overwhelming majority of Iraqis are better off without Saddam Hussein."
So the Iraq war was, despite all that went wrong, a good thing; the "overwhelming majority" of Iraqis are (and presumably feel) better off because of it; and the fault for all that has gone wrong is ultimately with Iraqis themselves: It's a remarkable point of view to encounter in June 2013.
10 Years After the Fall of Saddam How Do Iraqis Look Back on the War - The Atlantic
Did you read the Harvard study above?
The resounding answer WAS YES!!! according to Radha Iyengar, a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in health policy research at Harvard and Jonathan Monten of the Belfer Center at the university's Kennedy School of Government.
Using data on attacks and variation in access to international news across Iraqi provinces, we identify an “emboldenment” effect by comparing the rate of insurgent attacks in areas with higher and lower access to information about U.S news after public statements critical of the war.
In Iraqi provinces that were broadly comparable in social and economic terms, attacks increased between 7 percent and 10 percent following what the researchers call "high-mention weeks," like the two just before the November 2006 election.
But you idiots don't get it do you?
Why are you writing crap? What purpose does your writing words do?
Obviously you want to influence people's thinking why else are you are this forum?
So that be obvious...YOU use words to influence people to action!
These words influenced ACTIONS!!
Senator Kerry (D) "American soldiers going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children."
U.S. Rep. John Murtha(D)"Our troops killed innocent civilians in cold blood,”
Durbin (D) "must have been done by Nazis, Soviets"--action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners.
then Senator Obama said "troops are air-raiding villages and killing civilians,"
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid(D) "The war is lost, the surge is not accomplishing anything "
You accuse Bush of USING words to LIE to people! Bush's words influenced actions!
Well the above idiots KNOWING the power of their words went ahead and called our troops "terrorists".."civilian killers"..."Nazis"..."cold blooded killers"!
You don't think these words were not used by terrorists to recruit terrorists?
That's the point of using these words to influence actions...in this case the above traitors words "INFLUENCED" terrorists to recruit...just as the Harvard study said!
And they got screwed as a reward because the administration listened to guys like Rumsfeld and Cheney instead of the military leaders who knew what they were talking about.
stripes.com/news/3rd-id-troops-ordered-to-stay-in-iraq-1.6124
But hey, maybe stripes is a biased source.
Nobody got "screwed" except Baghdad Bob, asshole.....you don't know anything about it.
Thousands of American Soldiers got killed because of the FUBAR occupation.
Unknown number of civilians were killed because of the same.
American TaxPayers got screwed out of hundreds of billions.
Who was the decider in chief?
