$25 Billion down the drain

[2&2 Slider To Leyritz]

Thanks, Osama.

 

[ONW]

Fox News is openly claiming that the administration is against protecting Christians abroad.. WTF? They've moved from partisan to irresponsible.

 

[CHillDeac]

Al-Maliki doubles down and basically tells Obama to fuck off. He's siding with Iran and the Shiites and blaming this shit storm on Saudi Arabia.


"We hold them responsible for supporting these groups financially and morally, and for the outcome of that - which includes crimes that may qualify as genocide: the spilling of Iraqi blood, the destruction of Iraqi state institutions and historic and religious sites," the Iraqi government said of Riyadh in a statement.


http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-06-17/not-going-planned-iraq-prime-minister-defies-us-accuses-saudi-arabia-genocide

 

[PhDeac]

Screw em.

 

[meandmyuncleDeac]

Can we at least all agree that the invasion of Iraq was the dumbest thing this nation has ever done on a foreign policy level?

 

[DeaconCav06]

Can we at least all agree that the invasion of Iraq was the dumbest thing this nation has ever done on a foreign policy level?

Vietnam?

 

[ONW]

Vietnam?

Vietnam won't hold a candle to the price we pay for the post 9/11 wars in many ways.

 

[RJKarl]

Vietnam?

Viet Nam was not as dumb as Iraq. It was stupid, but not close to as stupid as Iraq. In the early 1900s there was no Iraq. They had nothing to do with 9/11 and we knew it. Multiple allies told us not to believe Curveball. It was inevitable that Iraq would devolve into sectarian violence and destablileze the entire region.

As many lies as the traitor MacNamara told, they paled in comparison to what W, Cheney, Wolfie, Rice, Feith, Kristol and others told.

Having lived through both, there is no comparison. Viet Nam was terrible. Nixon allowed tens of thousands to die to get re-relected. However, he didn't lie to start a war that never needed to be fought.

 

[DeaconSig]

Can we at least all agree that the invasion of Iraq was the dumbest thing this nation has ever done on a foreign policy level?

Vietnam?

Grenada?

 

[Wakeforest22890]

We should not intervene. Stay out.

 

[DDA]

We should not intervene. Stay out.

Let us implore our President the same message, because today he said:

"Washington (CNN) -- 'I'll let you know what's going on, but I don't need new congressional authority to act,' President Barack Obama told congressional leaders Wednesday about his upcoming decision on possible military intervention in Iraq."

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/18/politics/us-iraq/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

 

[ONW]

Let us implore our President the same message, because today he said:

"Washington (CNN) -- 'I'll let you know what's going on, but I don't need new congressional authority to act,' President Barack Obama told congressional leaders Wednesday about his upcoming decision on possible military intervention in Iraq."

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/18/politics/us-iraq/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Thank Allah he's a pussy.

 

[Biff Tannen]

Vietnam?

With the example of Vietnam 30-40 years earlier, shouldn't it have been that much easier to make the Iraq mistake? Therefore, Iraq invasion is dumber than Vietnam escalation.

Insert quote about history learn repetition doomed.

 

[Junebug]

Vietnam won't hold a candle to the price we pay for the post 9/11 wars in many ways.

Remind me: how many US lives were lost in Vietnam?

 

[Junebug]

ETA--IMHO, you might end up being correct, but you aren't yet.

 

[89DeaconMike]

http://online.wsj.com/articles/sunn...-saddams-chemical-weapons-facility-1403190600

Uh what? The chemical weapons that we have been told were never found or didn't exist. Now its "Oh we did find some, but they are old and we don't think you can use them." Any one want to volunteer to see if the old mustard gas or VX in that rusty container is harmless?

 

[Deacon923]

http://online.wsj.com/articles/sunn...-saddams-chemical-weapons-facility-1403190600

Uh what? The chemical weapons that we have been told were never found or didn't exist. Now its "Oh we did find some, but they are old and we don't think you can use them." Any one want to volunteer to see if the old mustard gas or VX in that rusty container is harmless?

let's hope there are a few volunteers to crack the lid among the ISIS brigades.

 

[dmcheatw]

Remind me: how many US lives were lost in Vietnam?

57,000

how many iraqis died in a needless war? he doesn't end up being correct, he's already correct.

 

[ONW]

Remind me: how many US lives were lost in Vietnam?

Too many.

 

[PhDeac]

It's mind-boggling how many lives our politicians are willing to risk to "prevent" another 9/11.