Posted on 06/22/2014 9:17:58 AM PDT by Nachum
Back in 2006, after the second US invasion of Iraq culminated if not with the discovery of the WMDs (which were the pretext for the invasion in the first place), but the unearthing (literally) and kangaroo court trial of Saddam Hussein, the US was quick to announce "mission accomplished." Recent events have made a mockery of that claim, however what is truly the straw that broke the back of poetic justice, to mix metaphors, are reports from local media that as part of its blitz-campaign to take over northern Iraq, ISIS found and the promptly executed Rauf Rashid Abd al-Rahman, the judge who sentenced Saddam to death: a death which to many was the crowning moment of the second US invasion of Iraq, and the confirmation of successful US foreign policy.
It goes without saying that if true, the murder of the man who indirectly did the US bidding in slamming the book shut on the Saddam regime (and with it US claims of Iraqi "liberation") and was responsible for Saddam's death, means the last "Mission Accomplished" posted can now be safely taken down.
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
not true
ISIS is the tip of a spear of cobbled interest groups, including Baathists from Saddam’s former regime. Some are known to be intelligence and military officers who escaped the coalition. One is suspected to be saddams former in law whose daughter was married to Uday Hussein. These men are nominally religious, more like virulent arab nationalists and ruthless opportunists with a golden opportunity to use an alliance with ISIS to settle old scores and to get back in power
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/saddam-husseins-son-in-law-and-head-of-baath-party-may-be-behind-a
They had to go back to G W Bush’s “mission accomplished” statement to blame Iraq on him???
Bush WON the war, Obama LOST the peace.
Wow. Hope Saddam’s first judge, Rizgar Mohammed Amin watches his back because they may go after him too!
We had plenty of success in dealing with postwar Japan. I naively envisioned a military government set-up within Iraq that would operate similarly...and I still believe could have.
Though, damn, was I ever wrong.
One is an asshole who can be pragmatic.
The other will torture and murder ad infinitum b/c his god says it’s cool.
They’re both monsters, but at least one is a more predictable monster.
The wrong side in 1990? Saddam should have been allowed to swallow up Kuwait? His next step would have been the Saudi oil fields, then north to Syria, and finally become the greater "liberator of al-Quds."
There is only one right side in any Mideast conflict, and that is whatever is best for Israel.
The first judge for those who don’t remember resigned because he couldn’t control the courtroom (the defendants including Saddam were constantly interrupting and going on crazy rants).
Not that the second judge had much luck either in that respect.
The Japanese are a monolithic people, willing to join together to do whatever it takes to ensure the future of Japan, including bowing down to temporary American hegemony. Iraq is made up of at least four separate groups of people (sunni, shia, Kurds, Christians) with four separate agendas, and convincing them to work together would have taken much longer--and it's too late now, thank you Barack Obama.
I am bereft of empathy when it comes to something I read on the internet ... posted by someone with a screen name who posts messages in complete anonymity ... about subjects with no supporting evidence or references to outside documentation. If you want to criticize me for that, then fine. LOL.
William
William J. Clinton
Statement on Signing the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998
October 31, 1998
Today I am signing into law H.R. 4655, the “Iraq Liberation Act of 1998.” This Act makes clear that it is the sense of the Congress that the United States should support those elements of the Iraqi opposition that advocate a very different future for Iraq than the bitter reality of internal repression and external aggression that the current regime in Baghdad now offers.
Let me be clear on what the U.S. objectives are:
The United States wants Iraq to rejoin the family of nations as a freedom-loving and lawabiding member. This is in our interest and that of our allies within the region.
The United States favors an Iraq that offers its people freedom at home. I categorically reject arguments that this is unattainable due to Iraq’s history or its ethnic or sectarian makeup. Iraqis deserve and desire freedom like everyone else.
The United States looks forward to a democratically supported regime that would permit us to enter into a dialogue leading to the reintegration of Iraq into normal international life.
My Administration has pursued, and will continue to pursue, these objectives through active application of all relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions. The evidence is overwhelming that such changes will not happen under the current Iraq leadership.
In the meantime, while the United States continues to look to the Security Council’s efforts to keep the current regime’s behavior in check, we look forward to new leadership in Iraq that has the support of the Iraqi people. The United States is providing support to opposition groups from all sectors of the Iraqi community that could lead to a popularly supported government.
Like maybe 500 years.
So your BDS applies to the entire family ?
The only "right side" for the U.S. in any Mideast conflict is to stay the hell out.
Oh, so now it’s funny. “Lol.” That is incomprehensible. You laugh at animal torture. This is too creepy for me. Goodbye.
Go back over the eight years that George W. Bush was in office, dude. If a Democrat had a track record like that, you'd rightly call him a complete disaster as a U.S. president.
ISIS is not like saddam at all. Get real.
Well, since he was not an Islamic, we must assume he did it just too keep his own population under control.
He invaded Kuwait. He tried to go nuclear. He attacked the Kurd's under our no fly zone. etc. etc.
All you had to do was say I was correct. Your BDS applies to the entire family.
~Saddam Hussein was a sociopathic Sadist. The things he & his sons did to the Kurds & the Iraqis are unspeakable. It’s like what N. Korea currently does to its citizens. Some crimes against humanity are too great to sweep under the rug. Post-Saddam Iraq hasn’t done a good job of governing. That is no excuse for wishing a monster like Saddam back in power.~
You can’t judge societies this way. Saddam’s Iraq wasn’t that much a jewel but it was about 100 times better place to live comparing to these days.
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