End of Iraq War

[Anonymous]

Maybe the war propaganda will cease and we will start to hear the truth

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Actually, in the case of Lybia, the rebels asked for international help. I'm not aware that anyone was seriously rebelling inside Iraq when we took advantage of 9/11 to invade it as part of a neo-con plan laid out in the mid 1990s entitled "Project for the New American Century."

The Kurds were not seriously rebelling and never asked for help, Wow! If you could hear some of the stories I heard while over there…

Go to the three Kurdish provinces in N. Iraq and say that. The Kurds up there all love Americans and America. I try to tell them that the typical American is about as knowledgeable as you are but they won't listen.

Well, they're in Iran and Turkey. Do you think that means we should invade them, too? Of course not. If the Kurds were a legitimate cause for war, the Administration would have said something about them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So glad we are done with this mess. But I was depressed when I read this quote:

Updated at 5:42 a.m ET: "Since 2003, we have helped the Iraqi security forces grow from zero to 650,000-strong," Austin says.

msnbc

In 2003 we fought a self trained army of 375,000. Now we have a us trained army of 650,000 who knows our every tactic. We never found those WMDs but we gave Iran 10 years of opportunity to build them. We lost more troops than we lost civilians in 9/11 but worse are the 50,000 plus soldiers with permanent brain trauma. And that's just on our side.

It was the wrong war.

You can't find what never existed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Actually, in the case of Lybia, the rebels asked for international help. I'm not aware that anyone was seriously rebelling inside Iraq when we took advantage of 9/11 to invade it as part of a neo-con plan laid out in the mid 1990s entitled "Project for the New American Century."

The Kurds were not seriously rebelling and never asked for help, Wow! If you could hear some of the stories I heard while over there…

Go to the three Kurdish provinces in N. Iraq and say that. The Kurds up there all love Americans and America. I try to tell them that the typical American is about as knowledgeable as you are but they won't listen.

I know about the Kurds and frankly that's a different situation. The Kurds are an ethnic minority on the northern border whose population straddles three countries and who just want an independent state and no amount of rebelling on their part would ever have made a difference. This is different from the majority of the population rebelling against a dictator. Also, the PKK and its sympathizers aren't exactly the most savory characters around.
If you think the Kurds' interests are on par with those of the Lybian population, perhaps you would also argue that we should invade Israel to help the Palestinians achieve statehood or invade Spain to help the Basques, etc?

Plus we ourselves had an unsavory history of encouraging the Kurds to rebel against Saddam when it suited our interests and then withdrawing our support when it didn't and leaving the Kurds to be gassed by Saddam. We most definitely did not invade to help the Kurds.