Make no mistake
about it, we created a “quagmire” in Iraq when we overthrew a
stable, if naughty, regime there. Once Saddamn was overthrown, we
have seen nothing but car bombings, assassinations, more car
bombings, sectarian warfare occur in that sad, sorry country. Our
intervention, in a sovereign nation which did not invade us or
provide any sort of threat to our safety and security, has definitely
created a quagmire that shows no sign of ending.
Now that local thugs
are gaining the upper hand in Iraq, we hear the same old warmongers
hollering for more US intervention and moaning how dumb O'Bama was
for putting an end to our involvement in the never-ending quagmire
that we created.
The part that pisses
me off the most is that the biggest warmonger of them all, Dick
Cheney, WARNED US THAT THIS WOULD BE THE OUTCOME IF WE OVERTHREW
SADDAMN!
Right after Gulf War
One, Cheney explained why we didn't go on into Baghdad and remove
Saddamn:
“Once you got to
Iraq and took it over, took down Saddam Hussein's government, then
what are you going to put in its place? That's a very volatile part
of the world, and if you take down the central government of Iraq,
you could very easily end up seeing pieces of Iraq fly off: part of
it, the Syrians would like to have to the west, part of it -- eastern
Iraq -- the Iranians would like to claim, they fought over it for
eight years. In the north you've got the Kurds, and if the Kurds spin
loose and join with the Kurds in Turkey, then you threaten the
territorial integrity of Turkey.
“It's a QUAGMIRE
if you go that far and try to take over Iraq.
“The other thing
was casualties. Everyone was impressed with the fact we were able to
do our job with as few casualties as we had. But for the 146
Americans killed in action, and for their families -- it wasn't a
cheap war. And the question for the president, in terms of whether or
not we went on to Baghdad, took additional casualties in an effort to
get Saddam Hussein, was how many additional dead Americans is Saddam
worth?
“Our judgment was, not very many, and I think we got it right.”
Oh, if only Dick
Cheney Two had listened to Dick Cheney One! During and after our
incursion in Iraq, the Shiite hit the fan almost as he predicted.
QUAGMIRE, THOUSANDS of unnecessary American military deaths, HUNDREDS
OF THOUSANDS of unnecessary innocent Iraqi civilian deaths, bombings
out the wazoo, several different terrorist groups trying to take over
the government, all because we invaded Iraq. We made an incredible
mess out of Iraq thanks to pursuing a war against a nation that did
not attack us on 9/11.
So don't give me any
bullshit that any of this continuing Iraqi QUAGMIRE is O'Bama's
fault. Bush/Cheney spread hogwash as to why we needed to invade a
stable country. The predicted QUAGMIRE has resulted. And this
QUAGMIRE is on their heads. Don't give me any bullshit that we left
Iraq too soon. We were there for years and years and years and years.
We've done enough damage to Iraq. We ain't worth a damn at nation
building.
