Saturday, October 22, 2011

IRAQ WAR: Finally over?

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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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