The Iraq war [2003], which Bush officials and media advocates sold as easy and inexpensive, grew into the biggest U.S. foreign policy debacle in a generation, resulting in the deaths of over 4,500 U.S. soldiers and 100,000 Iraqis. It also cast a shadow over the U.S. media, which largely promoted the administration's bogus case for war. [Wall Street Journal] 6/16/14
There has been a good deal of comment, some of it quite outlandish, about what our postwar requirements might be in Iraq. Some of the higher end predictions we have been hearing recently, such as the notion that it will take several hundred thousand U.S. troops to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq, are wildly off the mark. It is hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and to secure the surrender of Saddam's security forces and his army, hard to imagine. [Wolf-Wiki]
Hawks are only happy when we are at war, fueling the military-industrial complex as U.S. soldiers die and platoons of maimed veterans return home to underfunded medical care. [Alert Net 6/13/14]
And here we come again. Ignorant people are trying to deceive the American people. Help with Air fire. Al-Qaida, Terrorist, Foreign Fighters, Islamists, Time is running out, Obama not starting a war, terrorist will be back in New York...
Well, if the Sunni, Shiite, Kurds, or anybody is in charge of Iraq, it is all the same. Some are good, some are bad and some are in the middle. It is the same.
Just a [same] thought.
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