Neo-Cons call on President to "bring back" the team "who knew how to win'.

Now, Neo-Cons like McCain are calling on the President to "bring back" the Bush team "who knew how to win." Unbelievable. The people who led us into the Iraq War have no business even commenting on foreign policy -- much less managing it. In fact, any self-respecting television network should simply ignore anything they have to say, since they led us into the worst foreign policy disaster in half a century.

The Iraq War will ultimately cost the American taxpayers trillions of dollars. It caused the collapse of our international reputation. It costs hundreds of thousands of lives -- including 4.500 American soldiers, and it wounded and maimed hundreds of thousands more. And the Iraq War unleashed simmering sectarian conflicts that had existed for centuries throughout the Middle East.

Now those sectarian conflicts have spilled over into an awful civil war in Syria and are part and parcel of international tensions throughout the region. And these "geniuses" should be brought back to manage Iraq policy?

Oh, they say, President Obama should have been a tougher negotiator when it came to maintaining a residual force of training personnel in Iraq. But that ignores that the Maliki government refused to agree to conditions that every other country in the world provides for Americans who are stationed on their soil. The fact is that Maliki did not want American troops to remain in Iraq because he is entirely beholden to the Iranians who did not want any residual American troops in Iraq.

But that, of course, is beside the point where most Americans are concerned. The vast majority of Americans didn't want to maintain a residual force of American troops in Iraq either. They wanted to end America's involvement in the Iraq War -- and do not want American troops to be sent back to Iraq or any other war in the Middle East.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-creamer/only-two-words-for-neo-co_b_5494812.html