an old subject for question.....

[callmeslick]

.....from long back on this board: How's that removing Saddam Hussein thing working out for the world, or even for the US, given that we spent nearly a trillion dollars removing him and fighting to control the nation of Iraq(for a week or two).
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/milit ... it-n129271

[Reservoir_Dog]

Does this really surprise anyone?
Did anyone honestly really think that that country wasn't going to revert back to the stone age as soon as the troops pulled out?

That entire war (a.k.a. George Boosh's personal vendetta) was a monumental, historic waste of lives and money.

[callmeslick]

back in the day, you could get the board in an uproar with those observations. Yes, it was or should have been brain-dead obvious before the whole invasion started.

[Reservoir_Dog]

back in the day, you could get the board in an uproar with those observations.

I did!

Yes, it was or should have been brain-dead obvious before the whole invasion started.

True. Unfortunately, the brain-dead were running the show back then.

[HappyHappy]

With the ignore on the two of you my screen looks like it is when I am on this site.
Commieshit and RD make for a retard layer cake.

HH

[Reservoir_Dog]

With the ignore on the two of you my screen looks like it is when I am on this site.
Commieshit and RD make for a retard layer cake.

HH

Just caught you spewing bullshit, bitch!
What a fucking liar you are!

[callmeslick]

Whee!! I think I just urinated on myself. Nurse!!

ignore function doing a bangup job!

[Pudfark]

How's that "Status of Forces" agreement going....the one we always get, when leaving a country, after a war?
Ya know, the one Obama failed to obtain...before he hauled ass outta Iraq....

Old Pudfark sez: " Ya oughta replace that O-ring....in yer faucet. "

[Reservoir_Dog]

ignore function doing a bangup job!

Well, that's how he can reply to our posts!

[callmeslick]

How's that "Status of Forces" agreement going....the one we always get, when leaving a country, after a war?

the Iraqis didn't want one, and since we technically weren't fighting Iraq, just Saddam, we couldn't dictate as 'victors' like a conventional war.
Obama got elected on the promise to get out of Iraq and get out in a year. He did so. Who was going to pay for us to hang around there at a $150 billion per year tab? Remember that deficit stuff? Remember the hit our treasury took with the Bush Tax Break for the Rich? Remember that revenues were down then, too? In short, there was ABSOLUTELY no good reason to stay there, and this current outcome is exactly what EVERYONE with a brain said would happen after Saddam and the Baath party were removed. What is astounding is to hear nitwits like McCain saying we should bring back Bush's old team (immediately, no less). What? The assclowns that inserted us into the region to the tune of a Trillion bucks, a few thousand dead and thousands more badly hurt? Is he kidding? I hope we do exactly NOTHING, and let these people sort their tribal alliances out by themselves. You are seeing the final stages of the castoff of old British national boundries. Stepping into that process, one better be aware that you'd be inserting the clueless US(demonstrated for decades) into all of the following: Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Iran. I want no part of that for the US. We have far higher priorities at home if we wish to remain economically viable over the next 50 years.