Posted on 01/03/2014 5:13:21 PM PST by kristinn
Just announced per Fox News- hellfire missiles and eagle eye drones are on the way to Iraq.
No, it wasn't. Saddam was a major sponsor of terrorism, which by 2003 was rapidly coming to be seen as a risk-free form of sub rosa statecraft. Remember, too, that Saddam had tried to assassinate Bush 41 out-of-office when he traveled to Kuwait to receive the grateful thanks of the emirates for the Gulf War. Saddam had come up as a professional assassin and gunsel, and he was applying his methods and attitudes to international politics.
The same people criticizing Bush and Rumsfeld over the Iraq War are the same ones who'd have said the same things if we'd moved in 1937 to kick Hitler out of the Rhineland and public office and nip World War II in the bud.
Oh, and Bush gave us ethanol and banned Edison light bulbs too.
Blame Archer-Daniels-Midland, its CEO Dwayne Andreas, and his army of K Street bag men for ethanol, and Dingy Harry and Nancy the Red and their neo-Stalinist Red/Green orcs for the incandescent-light ban.
Those drones are toys. Little bitty things, in no way comparable to Global Hawk and its ilk.
I knew this headline was coming as soon as Obama was
elected, I’d seen it before only then it read,
“North Vietnamese armored forces enter Saigon
occupy former American embassy.”
Ping to my last, and no, Dubya did not get Obama elected. GOP-E moneybags who sat out the election in the expectation that Hildebeast would be the nominee and oblige them by
- Standing at the bottom of the hill while the Giant Financial Derivatives Smashup fell on her watch and
- Passing some kind of Sovietcare to get them off the hook for their employees' health care plans
sat on their moneybags and waited out the election, and prepared to wait out the four following years while Beastwoman did the dirty work and got the blame.
There are a lot of people among the superrich who understand that if your net worth declines 30%, it's worth it if everyone else's declines 75%, their bargaining power disappears, and everyone in the country has to defer to you and KYA because you're the only guy left with any cash.
They like that.
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