Misguided U.S. invasion spawned current crisis in Iraq: analysts
Source: Agence France-Presse
By Agence France-Presse
Saturday, June 14, 2014 8:33 EDT
Washington (AFP) 6/14/2014 7:48:39 AM
The rise of Al-Qaeda-linked militants in Iraq can be traced to America's invasion of the country more than a decade ago, as it left a power vacuum and unleashed sectarian bloodletting, experts said Friday.
With television footage of Sunni extremists sweeping across Iraq this week, critics of former president George W. Bush's decision to invade in 2003 said the onslaught offered yet more proof of the war's disastrous fallout.
Neoconservatives who backed Bush's decision touted the war as a way to build a model for democracy in the Middle East. Instead, it has fueled an explosive Sunni-Shiite divide that is still sending shockwaves through the region, experts said.
For University of Michigan history professor Juan Cole, events in Iraq are "an indictment of the George W. Bush administration, which falsely said it was going into Iraq because of a connection between Al-Qaeda and Baghdad."
"There was none," said Cole, an outspoken opponent of the invasion.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/14/misguided-u-s-invasion-spawned-current-crisis-in-iraq-analysts/
Turbineguy
(37,212 posts)but nurtured too.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)In 2003, I speculated that in the end, the strongest and meanest Sunni general will seize power and the first thing he will do is get WMDs to thwart another US invasion. That day is not so distant.
Cha
(295,913 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Most people here were talking about for the last decade.
And the same thing will happen in Afghanistan....again....
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)olddad56
(5,732 posts)jaysunb
(11,856 posts)Is there anyone on this planet that doesn't already know this ?
It should be headline news, but too many were culpable in this fiasco.
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EEO
(1,620 posts)warrior1
(12,325 posts)From day one the smart people was saying that this is going to be a quagmire.
Harry Monroe
(2,935 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,872 posts)DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)K&R
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iamthebandfanman
(8,127 posts)thanks for the obvious analysts
hibbing
(10,076 posts)OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)Parenti (1993) noted a reluctance by many scholars to accept that capitalists would collectively organize to pursue self-interest, citing variations of what he had termed innocence theory (somnambulistic, coincidence, incompetence, and stochastic) to explain how the capitalist class acquires material interests. Parenti (2010) suggested it is generally acceptable to believe that the farmer or the factory worker could organize behind a leader to demand higher wages or better working conditions, yet the idea that capitalists could organize to achieve higher profits at the expense of labor is not afforded such consideration.
According to Parenti (2010), the term conspiracy theory can be used to dismiss: (1) the idea of a conscious design by policy makers; (2) a hidden, but knowing intent; (3) a secret plan; (4) a secret interest.
Parenti, M. (1993). Conspiracy and class power. Retrieved from TUC Radio Michael Parenti archive: http://www.tucradio.org/parenti.html
Parenti, M. (2010). Ideology and conspiracy. Retrieved from TUC Radio Michael Parenti archive: http://www.tucradio.org/parenti.html
sakabatou
(42,083 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)Amazing somebody figured that out. Absolutely amazing.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)So I won't bother.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)dougolat
(716 posts)Pre-invasion, Sunni-Shiite tensions were low, mixed neighborhoods existed in many cities, and mixed marriages weren't a great rarity, I gather.
There were plenty of provocations early on, clear up to the 2006 bombing of the Golden Mosque, which sealed the ruination of Iraq.
lordsummerisle
(4,649 posts)NO SHIT SHERLOCK award...
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,112 posts)Thanks for the thread, DonViejo.
paleotn
(17,781 posts)...nope, nada, no way.
I'm only surprised it took this long to go to hell in a hand basket.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)icymist
(15,888 posts)delrem
(9,688 posts)There is ample evidence that PNAC intended an invasion, got the politicians and military in place to do it, then did it. Regardless of the strongest pushback of worldwide populations ever recorded. EVERYONE knew what was going on. When the US SOS stood up before the UN and lied to the world, EVERYONE knew he was lying. Then the USA did it. The USA did it, and all that came with it.
But now the USA is "looking forward", claiming that the past was somehow a "mistake" and "misguided", and that all is somehow better. Which is bullshit as well. The USA is still doing the same things it did under *, and as it did in the admins that preceded those last two. Nothing "misguided" about it. There are still PNACers pulling the strings of war and death.
polynomial
(750 posts)The Iraq war ; Bushs preposterous true conjecture was a fraudulent dichotomy.
A decision to go to war completely in material lies is the real truth.
Weapons of mass destruction, and the Al Qaeda connection to Iraq described by the Bush administration was intentionally developed as a fabricated lie to America and the world for a war.
The Constitution of Iraq which is a based religion of the Quran, with difference to American Constitution in which separation of religion and state is the theme of the American Constitution is a monumental contradiction to the war to instill Democracy as a fundamental reason.
With that said Bush partnering with the Arab Bin Laden family created this gap of religious political insanity in Iraq. Premeditated and planned to profiteer via the military industrial business media and banking community. Too big to fail as long as whistle blowers like Snowden are condemned.
The Brush family broke it and they own it. The Bush family and the GOP forever are scrambling to rewrite history through the mainstream media.
The intellectual common sense to solve the issues of this Iraq war paradox which is really a preposterous profiteering scheme hatched by the Bush GOP crime syndicate.
It is partnered with the Bin Laden Arabs and mainstream media, where there is no recourse but to hand these political-business people to the International Community in an open legal forum to indict and condemn them in recorded history. Other-wise Osama Bin Laden has won.