The U.S. has not gotten significant oil from anywhere in the Middle East for a long time. Most of our imports come from Canada and Mexico, and did during the Iraq war and after.
Okay. Here, for example. washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2014/10/02/leon-panetta-blows-whistle-on-lies-about-iraq/
I thought it was the Republican President Ronald Reagan who supported Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, calling them freedom fighters?
Exactly !
Saddam invaded Kuwait because Kuwait was slant drilling into Iraqi territory and we knew it.
Jennifer Rubin? I guess Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham or S E Cupp weren’t available?
Point is, Obama stated, correctly, that Iraq rejected the Status of Forces agreement. He has never said that he could or couldn’t have more to change their mind and Panetta’s words tell us nothing about what the President thinks.What we see now was predicted and H.W. Bush administration knew it would happen if they went into Iraq and took Saddam down, in the 1st Gulf War.
James Baker is a man who knows what he is talking about.
Ah, so that’s why “a lot of American soldiers lost their life and were maimed”? Doing a job that was not theirs to do. A job that the Iraqis themselves lacked the resolve and unity of purpose to do on their own. And as for your last sentence, it’s truly sad that brave American men and women risked their lives to build a house of cards that was bound to collapse when they inevitably left.
My sentiments as well. Also, as we all know…this agreement was made with the Iraqi government by a previous administration. The Iraqi’s will now have to take on their own defense.Ah, so that’s why “a lot of American soldiers lost their life and were maimed”? Doing a job that was not theirs to do. A job that the Iraqis themselves lacked the resolve and unity of purpose to do on their own. And as for your last sentence, it’s truly sad that brave American men and women risked their lives to build a house of cards that was bound to collapse when they inevitably left.
Iraq, Japan, flying over Chinese islands, Ukraine, Germany, Romania, why is the US in so many countries all over the world.
I am so sad you are ashamed of all the hard work our men and women in the military did trying to help people in Iraq have a chance of a better life not living under a dictator.Ah, so that’s why “a lot of American soldiers lost their life and were maimed”? Doing a job that was not theirs to do. A job that the Iraqis themselves lacked the resolve and unity of purpose to do on their own. And as for your last sentence, it’s truly sad that brave American men and women risked their lives to build a house of cards that was bound to collapse when they inevitably left.
Well there was division among the brass on this. They either wanted out altogether, or if they must stay, have a large enough force to fight of an attack. As it was, they never trusted the Iraqi government and didn’t trust that the Iraqi’s themselves would not attack a small American force.
I never said I was ashamed, and you know that. Remember, dishonesty is a sin.
And Roosevelt and Truman allied this country with Stalin, probably the second greatest mass murderer in history. But nobody condemns either of them for it.
The irony is the Afghans (especially women and children) lived worse under the Taliban–and the mess that is running their country now–than they would have had under a pro-Soviet regime. At least under the latter, they’d have had secular education, equal rights for women, a society not based on superstition and depravity, and at least a glimpse into 20th century life.