Quote Originally Posted by LarryG View Post
I'm a liberal, I served, my dad was careeer, is there a l;esson here? You arch conservatives are what got this country into the mwess in Iraq! Did you actually think that a culture that dates back to the bible, would welcome us with wide open arms?Any country will fight occupiers, we could have learned that from afganistan, the russians learned the hard way, and i'm sorry to sday this, so will we. By the way, have a grandson over there now, he was back from afganistan 7 months, and they shipped him back to iraq.If coservative knew how to count, this guy wouldn't be in office! delete this you seem to do that with folks who disagree with you1
I do not delete posts that disagree with me.
However, I did not expect the people of Iraq to welcome us with open arms, at least not all of them. I did expect a period of instability, due to the simple FACT that there are 2 different Islamic Fundamentalist sects in Iraq.
However, going to Iraq was necessary.
Sadam was looking for a way to attack this country. WMD or no WMD he was a danger. He had gotten CASH, literally TONS of cash thanks to Khofi Anan and his son who was funnelling Oil money back to Sadam. He could have purchased **** near an entire country with the cash he had on hand, not to mention small nukes or other WMD.
YOU LIB's seem to forget that FDR failed to stop Germany early and we ended up losing 250,000 men in a war that we should have helped stop sooner. 20 Million died in a war that should not have occurred. We kept appeasing the dictators and they kept taking more territory and killing more people. You did not learn the lesson of WW2, and you did not take Ossama Bin Laden Seriously. Sadam HAD to go. He was another World War waiting to happen.
Iraq will take years to fix, and it must be fixed, or Fundamentalist Wahabi Sect mullahs will spread this disease of hate and death across the world.
I used to be a liberal, I used to believe that there was NOTHING worth dying for, that negotiation could solve any issue.. I WAS WRONG.
You can not negotiate with terrorists who have no fear of dying.
Iraq was part of the terror problem.
IRAN is part of the terror problem.
Syria is part of the terror problem.
A free Iraq, with elections and democracy scares Iran.
That is why Iran is subverting our efforts and supplying the terrorists in Iraq.
We could just nuke them and pave it, but in the end we will not.
I do not know the answer, but the war we are in was the right war at the right time.. It may not have been fought the best it could.. but WW2 had many disasters and we still won.
Jim Dicken