Posted on 06/15/2014 2:54:25 PM PDT by Kaslin
... Obama is a sunni muslim, so that explains it.
Looks like any where in the southwest
Whereas pulling them all out had no effect....riiight.
All Bush, all the time...
Obama built this all by himself.
Simple. Greedy, corrupt, Marxist politicians on Capitol Hill is what happened in Iraq. The American people should shove their “rules of engagement” up the politicians @$$es. Their idiotic and moronic “ROEs” have killed more American military personnel than all of our enemies put together.
Towel Head Tijuana!
“””When the United States invaded Iraq in March 2003, Americans were told it would be a quick, simple project.”””
Actually W said the war on terror would be a long hard fight. But let’s keep facts out of it.
How many days before we captured Baghdad in 2003? We did in fact reach our initial military goals in days and weeks. Record time, btw. What we did not plan for was the insurgents that started immediately. The military action to move and take Baghdad was as good or better that expected. Even with setbacks like out northern divisions being locked out by turkey at the 11th hour. Not to say we didn’t account for what’s next to the criticism of all levels on the military from planners all the way up to the White House.
We needed to take over this country and sit on their heads, for several generations. If we were not willing to do that we just should have bombed the heck out of them and left it at that.
I keep thinking about that Ann Coulter column that got her fired from National Review. Of course the part the freaked them out was “convert them to Christianity”.
But we didn’t need to actually change their religion, but we sure as heck needed to change their culture.
Invade - sure, kill leaders - sure, change the culture - NO! That would be racist.
So, you know, here we are.
And I am really sick of hearing that we needed to get out, get out.
How long have we been in Germany, Korea, Japan?
That’s how long we needed to stay in Iraq, Afghanistan and quite frankly we should have gone on to Syria, etc.
I think Bush blew it the night of 9/11 when he couldn’t wait to say “Islam is a religion of peace”. He should have said “tonight we declare war on Jihadis”.
...which the Clintons during the 90's consistently claimed were there.
Funny how they always leave that detail out.
I love how it is now Bush who ended the Iraq War. Amazing!
It should have been clear that invading Iraq meant that we would have to be occupiers for at least 20 years. You just don’t remove Saddam, then let the chips fall and leave.
Someone explain to me what the point is of this trio finding it nesessary to look like topsy, bopsy, nopsy, parroting out some benign statement or other, trio style?
I think W said “religion of peace” to try quell a stem of violence that was on the verge of eruption that was beginning in this country against anyone who looked middle eastern. Whether they were Islamist or not.
That's what the Mission Accomplished banner behind Bush referred to. He was mocked ceaselessly for it by the Demonrats and the left when the insurgency erupted and our troops had to stay.
He sure did
So Obama got to take all the credit for a stable and functioning Iraq. Even saying it was one of his “greatest achievements.” Then when it all blows up, thanks to leaving no residual force, he goes on a golf trip. And the media blames Bush. Amazing.
We pulled out too soon and didn’t let the government stabilize. Had we stayed a year or two more, perhaps things would have been different.
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