Posted on 10/18/2008 12:29:18 PM PDT by austrian
Sorry. It was. It was late at night my time and my brain was entering "dead" phase. :)
“Occupiers out! Occupiers out! Muqtada al-Sadr! Muqtada al-Sadr! Muqtada al-Sadr! Long live IRAN!!”
No. I mean I wish I WAS joking (okay, I was joking, but the more I think about it - it isn’t a joke). Obama will wait until after he is elected (IF he is) to say this. Maybe not in so many words, but he will.
“As can be seen by the majority of Iraqis - and Americans, they want the U.S. occupation army out, and that is what we will do. The Occupation of Iraq is over”.
“al-Sadr, the popular leader of the Province, has agreed to meet with us regarding a coalition leadership in Iraq. This is a huge step forward in bringing all leaders into the process of rebuilding Iraq” (shoot - I think President Bush practically said this a long time ago making a brief treaty with Sadr for awhile!?)
“Iran’s quest for clean and efficent Nuclear Energy is a noble quest. By the U.S. providing them with Uranium and technology, we can not only make sure that these materials are going to civilian programs, but we can can bring Iran into the fold of our friendship. And rather than be enemies, we can both fight together our common enemy of Global Warming”.
(Okay - that bit about the global warming was over the top. The rest wasn’t - at least not for Obama.)
LOL, that’s even better and much more accurate!....
In this particular case, it was the right thing to do. Every conflict is different.
We went to war against a regime, not the nation's people. One of the many reasons for doing so was to establish a strong and stable ally in a very volatile and dangerous region.
In order to do that, it was incumbent upon us to stabilize the country. Leaving it in smoldering ruins would have given Iran a much larger territory from which to operate. Since the war drew a large contingent of al Qaeda into the country, it was almost like a two-fer. While the reconstruction of the nation has been underway, there has always been concurrent combat action, and the enemy has been engaged far from U.S. shores. The battles only abated earlier this year, allowing the reconstruction to really get going. We are doing it now with Iraqi funds, by the way.
This is not a no-win situation by any stretch. This is a very successful operation and the media has managed to conceal that from the American people for the most part.
Think the financial backers of this rally want Obama as President? A way of helping Obama without having to donate directly to his campaign?
“We went to war against a regime, not the nation’s people. One of the many reasons for doing so was to establish a strong and stable ally in a very volatile and dangerous region.”
You and I have gone ‘round before on this. I appreciate your view on-the-spot. This is a noble goal, quixotically so. There is very little likelihood of us having a strong and stable ally in Iraq. They will be an islamic state. Republicans will blame a democratic congress or Obama, if elected for the failure, but in the end, nation building does not work in the third world - and that is the reason why it will fail. We don’t have enough time, money, or patience to force them into the first world. Their third world corruption, cronyism, and incompetence stands in the way.
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