The Last Day of the Iraq War

Tell John McCain and Bush and Cheney and the Israel lobby that we've lost this war. If this war is a "draw" then we lost! How much did it cost us vs them. Israel has one less antagonist but what did the U.S. get?....nothing...zip...zero! We lost! Thank weak minded, un-patriotic Bush and the Israel lobby for this loss. Tell the families of those that died that their loved ones died for Israel!

The Iraqi's are going to have to fix their countries themselves. That means that they are going to have to realize that they have NO RIGHT to dictate to other people who they worship, what they do, etc. unless they are causing PHYSICAL harm to someone else.
Once the Arab's in general realize that.... the problems in these countries will fix themselves.

I said this before and will say it again. There is such a thing as evolutionary politics. The type of government that exists in a nation evolves from the situation there out of necessity. Some fools in Britain drew the Iraq border where they did after they carved up the Ottoman empire after world war I with no respect or understanding of the ethnic divisions within it. Just add that to the list of crass and tragic outcomes from the victors of that war. A despotic central government with absolute authority became necessary for that nation to have any hope of running effectively by superceding tribal tensions with absolute authority. So that despot lost favor with our government and we decided to go in and remove him and look what happens. How foolish Bush's notion of bringing democracy to a nation that is not ready for it due to these strong tribal tradiitions while being at the same time tribally divided. Biden's idea about dividing up the nation into 3 nations, one for the Kurds, Shiites, and Sunnis is the one that makes the most sense. Unfortunately a woefully weak U.N. is not capable of making this happen in the PC world we live in to correct the tremendous border drawing mistake the British made nearly a century ago. So we will live with this mess until it resolves itself or more likely blows up into another despotic regime down the road.

Lo, the president looked up from his coloring book and verily he saw an evil dictator and sayeth, smite the evil dictator. And he smite the head off of the evil dictator, like one pulleth the head off of a chicken for Sunday Dinner, and the president was sorely pleased, and he went back to color his coloring book while his other disciples wrought havoc on the whole evil world, and verily, they called it Government Work.

C'mon Ctruskey of course good enough isnt good enough! Look at the state of that place, some of it is not US fault but we did go in there and the last years have been hell for those people and the hundred thousands killed. Iraq looked on through histroy will be a minor war of little consquence but it will be looked back on as a blunder no way aorund it. Was Sadam evil - YES, WMD -Uhh No, War Profiteering To Some extent Yes, Is the average Iraqi better off No, Is the region better off - NO. How about the families of the dead US and Coalition soldiers - NO...Please dont balme the media for this one bud instead check the hole you punched at the ballot box in 2000 and 2004.

Well this article is interesting but didn't this same "news" magizine believe and write all was lost in Iraq over the last couple of years, now it seems like they want us to believe "good enough" isn't good enough, hmmm, typical of the press

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Oh, we haven't fixed Iraq yet? Gosh, I thought that we did that in just six months when they threw all the flowers at us and we came home. Remember? General, uh, oh well, it's been a few years now, General whatshisname, said then to the troops, "The road home is through Baghdad". Eight years of dumbass.

All you Monday morning quarterbacks making comments and predictions about the Iraq situation are full of iit. Newsweek and all of the liberal media are the best at bashing America and George Bush. The sunlight of history will make fools of you all.

This conflict has taken its toll on American Civilization as well. Every conversation in the streets of America that I hear, echos author Andrew Bacevich. In his book, "Limits of Power", he outlines the assessment that these wars are a symptom of a sick bureaucracy in Washington that is committed to creating an "Emperor-President" asserting American dominance over the world. The result of this impossible task is the removal of individual Constitutional Rights within our country, the destruction of our Republic from within, and a failed foreign policy abroad that will threaten our Republic's survival in years to come. The grass roots of our country understand what true Capitalism is, while our leaders do not. If we would return to true Capitalism in this nation, problems such as a failed foreign policy would resolve themselves.

Dear Mr President,The road to hell is paved with good intentions.Shiite Iran now holds sway over not only its own territory but also wields enormous influence in Iraq,Syria and Lebanon.In the future,a nuclear capable iranian military will be able to send tank battalions and troops unhindered and unopposed right to the border of israel itself.Its fighters and bombers will fly from bases all across this wide region with no need to ask for airspace permission and they may very well be able to drive the Jewish people into the sea.A decade ago that would have been an Iranian mullahs pipe dream.Now it is coming true.

Given the mentality of the Bush/Cheny administration, is anybody really surprised? Just good enough is their mantra for everything. There never, ever was a plan to help Iraq, only ourselves.

Iraq is going to be a mess whether the U.S. stays or not. The government simply does not work. The oil wealth and reconstruction has not trickled down to the average Iraqi. There is mass poverty and mass undemployment/underemployment. The sectarian civil war is over, but there are still political conflicts and ethnic divisions that will continue to drive the violence, just at a much lower level than 2006/2007. The Iraqi Army is more capable but they have no logistics. When the Americans leave, they will be tearing up their equipment for spare parts because new ones will not be delivered. The government can pay salaries, and delivery food rations, and that's about it. Most of the human capital that is required to get the bureacracy to really work is out of the country as refugees and is not coming back probably. For more see: musingsoniraq.blogspot.com