President Obama announced yesterday that ALL troops will be
out of Iraq
by the end of the year as promised by him in his campaign pledges.
This is obviously good news for the 50,000 troops that are
still stationed in Iraq
and for their families waiting for them at home. This is also good news for our
economy since we continue to blow billions and lose Billions in a war that
should never have been in the first place.
Critics of the president’s plan have emerged immediately and
some have legitimate concerns.
President Bush tricked the nation into approving a war on
Iraq (remember weapons of mass destruction bullshit) just to establish a
democracy in the Middle east which he thought, would democratize the rest of
the Middle East like falling dominos.
To make his dream come true he sacrificed over 4,000
American soldiers and countless thousands of Iraqi citizens as well as trashing
our economy.
The critics of ending this war and our presence in Iraq point to
the fact that as soon as we leave, an Iraqi civil war will begin which is true
as I have blogged about for years now.
Here is their main gripe: We sacrificed thousands of
American lives and billions of American dollars FOR WHAT? That question is most
painful to all those families of American soldiers that died FOR NOTHING in Iraq but they did die FOR NOTHING because there
was no threat to us from Iraq
and FOR NOTHING because an Iraqi democracy is a very far fetched idea if not an
impossible idea.
If you want a shred of optimism, the possibility of an Iraq split into
three (3) sections, Kurds, Shia and Sunni, is possible after the civil war and
that would be a good thing. A bad thing would be the mostly inevitable meddling
of IRAN in an Iraqi civil
war which could get the US
involved in the struggle…again?
President Obama is absolutely doing the right thing by
ending this worthless war BUT ole’ Bush should be made to realize what a
terrible decision he made by getting us involved in a war that should never
have happened…he has to own the guilt for that war…forever!
Note: Obama's decision was made easier for him when Iraq would not give IMMUNITY from prosecution to any soldiers left behind to keep the peace and prevent a civil war...so ALL troops must come home.
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