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This is what follows when you declare war on people and illegally invade, occupy and torture.
War never ever had one side
napkinz
(17,199 posts)Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn told the German newspaper Der Spiegel that Americans allowed their anger of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to lead them into disastrous military policies that failed to address the root causes of terrorism and actually helped create new and more brutal terrorists.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/former-head-of-us-special-forces-admits-islamic-state-would-not-exist-if-bush-didnt-invade-iraq/
AxionExcel
(755 posts)a freaking death-dealing, treasury-draining quagmire.
George W. Bush was the Very Best and Brightest the Republicans have to offer. Awfully damn sad.
malaise
(267,785 posts)Thanks
JEB
(4,748 posts)hook, line and sinker. Some supposedly smart ones even voted for it. Fucking A. If a gone to seed working stiff out here in rural Oregon knew it was all bullshit then there are no excuses for US senators who voted for this disaster.
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)tRump, Cruz, et al.
malaise
(267,785 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,316 posts)up to The Hague for trial as war criminals, that maybe we could put a stop to some of this. But, now with this bombastic
a$$hole Trump stirring up more hatred, I fear not even giving up the Bush/Cheney cabal would
have any effect.
It saddens me so much to see all the hatred in the world. How are we ever going to change this?
malaise
(267,785 posts)and sent to prison
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)of RWers and other extremists all over the world. Only enlightened love can overcome and transform it.
malaise
(267,785 posts)accountability
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)are brought into the sunlight, and some kind of genuine expiation takes place.
Rex
(65,616 posts)How hard it is to learn that love (which is free) will never win out against profits (which is gained by the blood of the poor). It is the way the human race seems to be. Otherwise, somewhere at least a few millennium ago we would have wised up to the long con.
Love is magic, but accountability is what pays the bills.
and the entire mess in the ME is the result of a big con
Rex
(65,616 posts)But we will win in the end, history will not be kind and their children and grandchildren will suffer for the acts of their elders.
He and the rest of the family now understand that no one bought Dumbya's BS lies.
Drumpf is lucky poppy can't move around these days
Rex
(65,616 posts)and it is silence from the audience. Even Ma Barker and Spud couldn't save his ass or even get him a bump! I tell ya, that family will be a pox word until people forget about this time in history...but it will still be recorded and talked about somewhere.
malaise
(267,785 posts)to believe they could con the people again - that I don't get.
Skittles
(152,963 posts)well, now we see where THAT led
napkinz
(17,199 posts)malaise
(267,785 posts)Thanks
Keep 'em coming
napkinz
(17,199 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)Botany
(70,281 posts)In 2002 and 2003 France tried to warn w & Cheney about the blow back from
invading Iraq. But did they listen?
malaise
(267,785 posts)Sarkozy to take over and to be truthful I'm not sure if Hollande is yet another tool
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)Anyone who has voted for the IWR should be barred from the presidency.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)Cassiopeia
(2,603 posts)She helped reinforce and encourage what Bush started as SOS.
clarice
(5,504 posts)MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)this outcome was known by anyone with a shred of intelligence and honesty.
clarice
(5,504 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Killing random people in Brussels is inexcusable.
Tragl1
(104 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)chapdrum
(930 posts)Even though the corporate media has long done that.
Part of their joint mission is to make sure that we are the U.S. of Amnesia.
Nothing to see here, folks.
"America: Open For Business (mainly for the B*sh Syndicate, that is)."
MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)Hussein, evil imbecilie that he was, kept the Islamic state supported down.
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)history but maybe all of history.
Also, if this was NOT a mistake, then even worse.
Either the Bush/Cheney group are the most guilty war criminals in a long time or the dumbest people to hold the job.
One or the other.
glowing
(12,233 posts)LibDemAlways
(15,139 posts)they strong armed their way into the WH. The PNAC manifesto lays it all out, and they were brash enough to publish it on their website. However, our lazy complicit media never went there, never shone a light on what was going on. Instead they became cheerleaders for a war based on lies, and the gullible, uninformed American public went along. Anyone who raised a dissenting voice was silenced or ridiculed.
You can't destabilize an entire region and expect a good result. Bernie cautioned about unintended consequences on the floor of Congress before voting "no," but his and other anti-war voices were drowned out amidst cheers of U-S-A U-S-A.
We can't escape our share of the responsibility. Those who carry out senseless violence against civilians - whether it be in Brussels in 2016 or Baghdad in 2003 - are ultimately to blame.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)spanone
(135,627 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)malaise
(267,785 posts)for those graphics
pault420
(26 posts)Not sure why killing people who had literally nothing to do with the war in Iraq, is somehow justified by what we did.
Violence is never the answer.
In some peoples eyes what happened today will only give some justification for us to keep bombing the middle east.
malaise
(267,785 posts)Read history
Rest assured that the survivors of the genocide associated with that illegal invasion and occupation wonder why people who like that phrase have no problem killing people in their homelands.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Amassing quite a damning list!
malaise
(267,785 posts)Not ever - they don't really care. War is very profitable and wealth is all that matters
seanjoycek476
(54 posts)The fact that they are walking free just shows how messed up the justice system in this country is.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,353 posts)except when he didn't:
9/11/01-3,000 Americans killed-2001
Iraq-4,000+ Americans killed-2003-2011
Hurricane Katrina-??????-2005
muntrv
(14,505 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/8/25/1324572/-ISIS-George-W-Bush-built-that