Oil, Halburton company owned buy you know who.
dont forget no big contracts.
"i sell guns to this tribe, then i sell medicine and guns to the tribe the other one attacked, then i sell medicine and guns to the tribe that started it all."
Oil, Halburton company owned buy you know who.
Perhaps a bit stronger than I may have worded it, but you do make a good point. We had no reason to invade Iraq and have gained little, if anything, as a result.The day we invaded the sovereign nation of Iraq, the GOP was within reach of a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. NOTHING was more important to this great nation. Bush 43 invaded Iraq for one and ONLY one reason: revenge for his daddy. That's it. Bush 43 sacrificed the future of America and created the circumstances under which something called Barack Hussein Obama could possibly be elected as our President. In 2003, we were poised to finally be in a position to reverse 40+ years of liberal destruction of our way of life. GWB gave it all away to avenge his daddy. May George W. Bush rot in hell. Edcuate yourself on what was happening in America in 2003 and how it was all destroyed by this traitor. A firing squad would be too good for him.
Amercia gave away any chance of a future the day we invaded Iraq. For what? NOTHING. We gave it all away for nothing.
Well, perhaps someone gained something.Oil, Halburton company owned buy you know who.
Owned by the board of directors and the stockholders, better check all of our 401 k accounts. The facts surrounding the "no bid" contracts secured by Haliburton truly need to be made public, no way the Mass Media was going to tell the truth about it. The Media did an incredible job of under informing the public about these contracts, and the right wing political party did a very poor job of correcting it.Oil, Halburton company owned buy you know who.
After a while in Iraq, our troops were mostly engaged with "foreign fighters", were we not? I think that Al Queda sent these terrorists where they could more easily engage US troops. I still feel that our troops were fighting the terrorists "over there" rather than here. To all you vets of the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns, I salute you.I believe that we do not want to fight any foes on American soil. This includes communism and terrorism.
In Iraq, I believe that we needed to remove Hussein and Bin Laden but we have extended these situations far passed these accomplishments.
If we look at Vietnam as an example, we accomplished little or nothing in 10 years except spend a lot of money and lose 56,000 brave young men. We should have learned a lesson.
Yes, I am a Vietnam veteran and served without question. At that time I thought the government knew things I did not understand but I no longer believe that.
In 1975 my unit was sent to process Vietnam refugees. During this time i had extensive opportunity to discuss the situation with a refugee that came from a position to know what was the situation was.
Sorry for the rambling but i feel strongly about this "situation".
The fact of the matter is in WWII, if our industry hadn't outproduced the Axis, we would have lost the war. On the other hand, greed must always be recognized as a human failing and must be controlled through legislation and enforcement of that legislation. OTOH I don't think everything that big companies do is bad. If it weren't for them, many regular folks wouldn't have jobs. We wouldn't have the technology we have today and some of that technology saves American lives. Class warfare, especially during bad times is easy to get stirred up, but it only benefits politicians.Everyone on here should read what Marine Smedley Butler had to say about his career and war. ALL WAR! Follow the money! Then answer the question as asked. Oil owned both sides of the Whitehouse! What else could be expected.
Japan and Germany already had significant experience with parliamentary government and relatively open political systems before the war. And I would think we actually understood the German system pretty well, if not also the Japanese.We successfully rebuilt and reshaped the Japanese and Germans after WWII and the strategy we pursued in Iraq was designed to do the same thing; create a working democracy in the middle of a slew of dictatorships, which, it was hoped, would cause the idea of representative government to spread in the region. In one sense, we accomplished the mission - as seen in the overthrow of a number of dictatorships throughout the region. In a greater sense, we failed in our intention because we didn't have the national will to stick with the job until it was finished. We made mistakes trying to teach the Iraqis to govern themselves - as we did in Japan and, to a lesser extent, in Germany - but it took over 20 years to successfully transition the Japanese to self-government and we didn't understand their culture any better than we understand the Iraqis or the Afghanis. It was a valiant attempt, but I'm beginning to agree that, unless we're prepared to be in it for the long haul, we shouldn't try it again.
Our occupation of Iraq WAS a great Jihadist-magnet, though, and like others who've expressed their opinion, I believe it is always better to tear up someone else's real estate than fight over here.
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Should we have kept letting Saddam get away with thumbing his nose at the UN and especially the US, no. ...