Kerry has conceded

[SGT.BATGUANO]

Originally posted by t2p
Again, this country did basically 'nothing for 20 years'.
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We did nothing to Iraq because Saddam (who was not a threat) was our supported puppet of choice. We even went so far as to supply him with chemical and other wmd's ( that's why dumbya was sooo damn sure we would find wmd's there) .

Osama was our ally too. He was pissed because we supplied him with weapons and "guerilla/ terrorist" training to fight our war with the soviets, but no manpower or more importantly, no funding to help rebuild poverty riddled Afghanistan after they turned the soviets back and the dust settled. A good number of his people died to advance our cause, and for what?

I think this may have been the beginnings of overseas outsourcing of U.S. jobs (jk).

As a sidenote we helped install the Shah of Iran as our puppet there and now, years later, that too is coming back to bite us in the nether regions.

There were *many* reasons to invade Iraq. They did not find WMD's. So I guess many would feel better if we had found WMD's .... ???

Actually, there was only 1 reason "national (ahem) security", but when that didn't pan out our leaders "hatched" a few more.

I wouldn't have felt better, but at least our "attack/ invasion" would have been legitimately justified in the eyes of Americans and our allies throughout the world.
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Maybe it was primarily 'personal' - and maybe siblings ....... relatives ........ should not be allowed to sit in the Oval Office ?

I won't go that far. Especially with Hillarity (sic) being eyed as a contender ( yeah, right) Lmao. Just a little disappointed that the congress and citizens here were tricked into backing an agenda of revenge and uninvited overtaking of another country, with a side order of economic windfalls for corporate cronies.

We're going to be stuck there for years and billions, if not trillions of dollars, which could both serve a better purpose here at HOME.

As far as the Iraqi cheering goes, you'd cheer too if the option was cheer or get a bullet in the head, but before you say that is a good reason for us to be there, let me just say that there are other , more hostile, threatening and repressive countries out there that are begging for our help.

Did someone say "wag the dog"?