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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMichael Moore: Mosul.One more maddening day in this 11-year illegal, immoral, greedy and stupid war
So today, Mosul fell. Mosul is the second largest city in Iraq. The Iraqi government we "installed", has now lost Fallujah, Ramadi, Mosul and other large swaths of the country we invaded at the cost of thousands of American lives, tens of thousands of Iraqi lives and a couple trillion dollars. (What could your school district do with a trillion dollars?).
One more maddening day in this 11-year illegal, immoral, greedy and stupid war. Today in Mosul, that Iraqi Army YOU pay for, freaked out, threw down their guns, and literally RAN away. I have friends and acquaintances who lost sons in all three of those cities. I can only imagine what they're feeling tonight. FOR WHAT? FOR WHAT! I am so sorry we couldn't do anything to stop this when it started. A few million of us tried. Last week, Richard Clarke, Bush's former head of counter-terrorism, said he now believes that his fellow members of the Bush administration committed "war crimes."
I continue to await the perp walk.
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Skittles
(153,150 posts)infidel dog
(273 posts)Do you think members of the Chimp administration will reunite for an aircraft carrier song-and-dance number this time?
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)I wonder do they ever hear the screams of the children over there, or are they so psychopathic they consider the loss of those innocent lives, 'worth it'.
Same thing in Libya. Supposedly NATO was 'protecting the innocent'. Only they weren't, they ensured control of the oil fields and then left untold numbers of civilians to the brutal terrorists we supported in order to get that control.
But perhaps there is such a thing as Karma after all. The Libyan oil industry, once the third biggest oil producing country in the world, has dropped production of oil dramatically due to the violence and unrest, but also to the stupidity of the entire invasion which caused the Oil Workers hired by Gadaffi from Africa and elsewhere to have to flee for their lives.
Was this the goal, to plunge these once relatively stable nations into chaos? Because that's what our tax dollars have done.
'For what noble cause did my son die'?? She never got an answer because there is none.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Botany
(70,501 posts)EEO
(1,620 posts)He was not a nice man, but he served a purpose. You cannot impose democracy on others. When our occupation of Iraq was really under heavy assault and we were pulled into the civil war that resulted from the power vacuum WE created I snidely replied to a friend who was commenting on our precarious position that, "You know what Iraq needs? A dictator." He said I was ironically, and sadly, correct. George H.W. Bush was correct when he decide to contain Saddam rather than overthrow him during Operation Desert Storm. He got hell for it at the time, but he had remarkable foresight in that matter.