Anyone who supported the Iraq war now knows they’re an idiot, and that France was right
Anyone who supported the Iraq war now knows they’re an idiot, and that France was right.
“The situation in Iraq is grave and deteriorating. There is no path that can guarantee success, but the prospects can be improved.”
...reads the first two sentences of the Iraq Studies Group report released on 12/6/06. This rare honest and frank feedback from our government is the first from a bipartisan commission and proves that the Bush administration has been flat out, criminally lying to The American people about the situation in Iraq. This isn’t a surprise to most people, but it is to the many Americans who still trust our failing President. No mistake can now be made that this president is unfit for office. Anything who now thinks George W. Bush is doing a good job as president is unquestionably an idiot. Anyone who thinks he has not broke the law is expressing a falsehood, not an opinion.
“We do not recommend a stay-the course-solution” says James Baker, former Secretary of State and member of the group. Even ever obstinate Rumsy indicated a change a direction is needed right before he was let go. Ah yes, it all comes crumbling down.
I ask those who supported this war and this president. How does it feel to know you supported a senseless killing spree and a failed Presidency? Because it certainly feels like shit to be right. To tell you the truth I would love nothing better if I were now admitting I was wrong from the start about this war. If Iraq was now a beacon of democracy in the middle east, I would eat my pride between two buns with a side of freedom fries and enjoy every bite. But for me, that possibility was never even in the cards. Why? Because I know a little bit about history, particularly the history of trying to force democracy on nations. Anyone who knows even a little about the history of democracy in the world would know that democratizing states are the biggest cause of violence in the world today. And guess which country has tried to force democracy on the most nations who weren’t ready for it. I’ll give you a hint, it’s not fucking France!
The same thing happened in Iraq that happened in Afghanistan, South America, Korea and Vietnam. We went in with our big guns and said “democratize or we’ll kill you!” Why do we continue to think this works when it never has? How many people can we kill trying to “protect” them from their own government? What’s the last country we successfully helped to become a democracy? The only one I can think of is The USSR, and that’s the only one where there was no military action. We waited them out instead of killing them and now they’re an ally.
“We do not recommend a stay-the-course solution.” former Secretary of State James Baker said. Critics of the war were right on the mark before the war even started. But unfortunately the American public trusted the President and supported a sloppily planned, incompetently executed military campaign into one of the few stabilizing forces in the middle east. Why do you think Bush One didn’t get Saddam after the first Iraq war? Because his advisers told him that having Saddam Hussein in power was more good for America and it’s interests than bad. Critics of the new Iraq war said that a preemptive war would lead to thousands of deaths, and could destabilize the entire middle east.
It take very little pride in being right because for me it was a no-brainer. I don’t mean to belittle the intellect of the majority of American who supported this ill conceived campaign, but I do require they at least admit they were wrong. I hope that The American public learns from this what they obviously didn’t learn from Vietnam. Democracy can be a great force of good in a country, but they must find it themselves and only when they’re ready. We had to fight for our own right to govern ourselves and other countries should have to do the same. Civil war is always ugly, but sometimes it’s better that wars be fought by people trying to help themselves. Trying to save people from themselves only breeds resentment and encourages hate for The United States. There will now be a big civil war in Iraq and many people will choose to die for their country. We should offer amnesty to any Iraqi who wishes to get the hell out, and wish luck to those who wish to fight the good fight for the future of their country. It’s what we had to do and it’s only through our internal struggles that we became a strong democracy.
“The situation in Iraq is grave and deteriorating. There is no path that can guarantee success, but the prospects can be improved.”
...reads the first two sentences of the Iraq Studies Group report released on 12/6/06. This rare honest and frank feedback from our government is the first from a bipartisan commission and proves that the Bush administration has been flat out, criminally lying to The American people about the situation in Iraq. This isn’t a surprise to most people, but it is to the many Americans who still trust our failing President. No mistake can now be made that this president is unfit for office. Anything who now thinks George W. Bush is doing a good job as president is unquestionably an idiot. Anyone who thinks he has not broke the law is expressing a falsehood, not an opinion.
“We do not recommend a stay-the course-solution” says James Baker, former Secretary of State and member of the group. Even ever obstinate Rumsy indicated a change a direction is needed right before he was let go. Ah yes, it all comes crumbling down.
I ask those who supported this war and this president. How does it feel to know you supported a senseless killing spree and a failed Presidency? Because it certainly feels like shit to be right. To tell you the truth I would love nothing better if I were now admitting I was wrong from the start about this war. If Iraq was now a beacon of democracy in the middle east, I would eat my pride between two buns with a side of freedom fries and enjoy every bite. But for me, that possibility was never even in the cards. Why? Because I know a little bit about history, particularly the history of trying to force democracy on nations. Anyone who knows even a little about the history of democracy in the world would know that democratizing states are the biggest cause of violence in the world today. And guess which country has tried to force democracy on the most nations who weren’t ready for it. I’ll give you a hint, it’s not fucking France!
The same thing happened in Iraq that happened in Afghanistan, South America, Korea and Vietnam. We went in with our big guns and said “democratize or we’ll kill you!” Why do we continue to think this works when it never has? How many people can we kill trying to “protect” them from their own government? What’s the last country we successfully helped to become a democracy? The only one I can think of is The USSR, and that’s the only one where there was no military action. We waited them out instead of killing them and now they’re an ally.
“We do not recommend a stay-the-course solution.” former Secretary of State James Baker said. Critics of the war were right on the mark before the war even started. But unfortunately the American public trusted the President and supported a sloppily planned, incompetently executed military campaign into one of the few stabilizing forces in the middle east. Why do you think Bush One didn’t get Saddam after the first Iraq war? Because his advisers told him that having Saddam Hussein in power was more good for America and it’s interests than bad. Critics of the new Iraq war said that a preemptive war would lead to thousands of deaths, and could destabilize the entire middle east.
It take very little pride in being right because for me it was a no-brainer. I don’t mean to belittle the intellect of the majority of American who supported this ill conceived campaign, but I do require they at least admit they were wrong. I hope that The American public learns from this what they obviously didn’t learn from Vietnam. Democracy can be a great force of good in a country, but they must find it themselves and only when they’re ready. We had to fight for our own right to govern ourselves and other countries should have to do the same. Civil war is always ugly, but sometimes it’s better that wars be fought by people trying to help themselves. Trying to save people from themselves only breeds resentment and encourages hate for The United States. There will now be a big civil war in Iraq and many people will choose to die for their country. We should offer amnesty to any Iraqi who wishes to get the hell out, and wish luck to those who wish to fight the good fight for the future of their country. It’s what we had to do and it’s only through our internal struggles that we became a strong democracy.
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