Baghdad Wakes to Sounds of Helicopters, Talk of a People’s 'Revolt'

VOA News ^ | May 21, 2016 | Sharon Behn

[Pining_4_TX]

Obama and Hillary are both losers, but this has to be put on Bush and his idiot advisers. Invading Iraq was a huge military blunder. Saddam held that dump together and provided a counter to Iran, but Bush pulled the plug and chaos was inevitable. All the lives lost and millions squandered in a vain attempt to turn that dump into a free country! What utter hubris and stupidity. It makes me furious to think of all the lives that were sacrificed only to create more problems than we had before.

Remember, Bush got up and praised Islam, calling it a “great religion”, put a Koran in the White House library, and started the flood of Muslim “refugees” coming in to invade our country.

We have to be willing to criticize Republicans as well as Democrats if we want to prevent such disasters in the future. There never was a victory in Iraq or Afghanistan, just a temporary lull in the violence.

You don’t fight a philosophy by invading countries with armies. You keep it the hell out of your country. Islam should be banned in civilized countries, Muslims deported, and institute a “pet the pig” requirement to board a plane or enter the US. Let the savages slaughter their fellow Muslims in their own countries as long as they want.

[Shadow44]

I say Sadr should be given a free trip to Mosul and have a chat with Isis.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Agreed.

[thoughtomator]

Puppet governments never last.

Unfortunately for policymakers, a genuinely representative Iraqi government would be dominated by Shia and an ally to Iran.

That’s kind of why Saddam had to be as brutal as he was to stay in power.

To think - all that money spent, all those lives lost, all that damage done... just to finally come to the conclusion that we were better off with Saddam around than without him.