The Iraq War was a Smashing Success

[georgephillip]

Can we distinguish between the purpose of war and the nature of war?

Is it possible the purpose of war is to affect political ends, but the nature of war is to serve itself?

Most sentient human beings believe the Iraq War was a "US-made disaster of historic proportions." Millions of innocent Muslims have been maimed, murdered, displaced and incarcerated since 2003.

However, for some of our economic elites who "pay the political freight and count the coins according to how many bombs and bullets get used," not only was the war a smashing success, but George W. Bush was the most successful president in US History.

How's that for a star-spangled absurdity?

"The absurdity runs deep: America is using American military equipment to bomb other pieces of American military equipment halfway around the world. The reason the American military equipment got there in the first place was because, in 2003, the US had to use its military to rebuild the Iraqi army, which it just finished destroying with the American military.

"The American weapons the US gave the Iraqi army totally failed at making Iraq secure and have become tools of terror used by an offshoot of al-Qaeda to terrorize the Iraqis that the US supposedly liberated a decade ago. And so now the US has to use American weaponry to destroy the American weaponry it gave Iraqis to make Iraqis safer, in order to make Iraqis safer."

It is long past time to make "National Defense" a non-profit enterprise.

William Rivers Pitt The Iraq War Was a Smashing Success

 

[georgephillip]

"The beginning of this week (25 August '14) saw bombs ring out all over Iraq, leaving 212 dead and 184 wounded.

"Three bombs exploded in a commercial district in Kirkuk, killing 31.

"A suicide bomber charged the gate of a security building in Baghdad, killing eleven. A Sunni mosque in Diyala was attacked, leaving 60 dead.

"A car bombing in Karbala killed 12.

"Another car bomb killed 11 people in Hilla.

"The butcher's bill goes on, and on, and on.

"US military operations in Iraq, directed against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), are escalating by the day.

"Since the second week in August, the US has carried out some 100 air strikes in Iraq, has deployed about 1,000 troops back into the country, and is tickling the outside edges of bombing targets in Syria.

William Rivers Pitt The Iraq War Was a Smashing Success

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Bush's acquiescence to the left's anti-war contrivance resulted in the delay of the necessary troop increases. Those eventual troop increases solved the problem. Obama subsequently removed all US presence and has created this new dynamic of failure. This is all on obama, the boy president who shouldn't have been.

 

[georgephillip]

Bush's acquiescence to the left's anti-war contrivance resulted in the delay of the necessary troop increases. Those eventual troop increases solved the problem. Obama subsequently removed all US presence and has created this new dynamic of failure. This is all on obama, the boy president who shouldn't have been.

Obama's been a disaster almost without political precedent in this country, but even he knew better than to topple Saddam and dismantle the Iraqi military. Both Bush and Obama and whoever comes next serve the military industrial jackals who get rich from war, and only another American Revolution is likely to change that:

"It makes you want to tear your teeth out, right?

"The Marines use a phrase - 'Charlie Foxtrot' - which is shorthand for 'cluster f-k,' being a series of disasters leading to total catastrophe.

"The United States' involvement in Iraq, dating back to 1990 but wildly exacerbated since March of 2003, has been a pluperfect Charlie Foxtrot from the jump, and gets worse with every passing year.

"Right?

Well, it depends on who you ask.

"Ask the 'defense' industry, the makers and sellers of all these weapons, and they'll tell you this Iraq debacle is the greatest thing to happen since Vietnam.

"Twenty-four years of war since 1990, all those missiles and bombs dropped, all those bullets fired, all those armored vehicles blown up that needed to be replaced, all of which come with a price tag to be paid out of the taxpayers' pockets.

"Not everyone gets a payday that lasts a quarter of a century.

"The 'defense' industry got one, again, and it is ongoing, and expanding.

William Rivers Pitt The Iraq War Was a Smashing Success