You may have heard about the bombings in Iraq today, yes?

[WilliamPitt]

It was nineteen bombings

Nineteen.

Seventeen car bombs, plus two adhesive bombs that got stuck to cars.

And an assassination.

57 dead, nearly 190 wounded.

Mission fucking accomplished.



http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/20/world/middleeast/attacks-in-baghdad-before-iraq-war-anniversary.html?hp&_r=0

[Cali_Democrat]

1. Mission Accomplished

[TwilightGardener]

2. I always say, nothing that some pimply 19-year-old kid from Iowa can't fix.

Why'd we ever bring them home, when they could be solving ancient hatreds half a world away?

[patrice]

3. Tell everyone! Every face-to-face opportunity you get. Tell them the truth! nt

[rhett o rick]

4. Where is Iraq's oil going? That is what the mission was for. Not bring peace. nm

[kardonb]

6. oil

when will we EVER learn to stay out of the cursed Middle East ? There was never peace there among they own people , there NEVER will be !

[zeemike]

5. Mission accomplished...

You say that with sarcasm of course...but it may have actually been the mission. a permanently destabilized Iraq that allows the big oil companies to steal the oil.
It would not be the first small country we plundered for their natural resources...but I am sure you know that.

[KoKo]

7. And they LOVE US! They Sprinkled Flower Petals because WE INVADED!

AND there are folks here "comfortable with THIS?"

K&R your post.



I said I was outta here...finally time to get out and try to get that book and try to sleep...but it was too horrible...those who didn't remember and those who do hagiography of it all and rewrite history.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. The candy in Iraq as an explosive quality to it

Don't get me started on the flowers.

Oh and yes, mission accomplished.

[Igel]

9. Yup.

They fought so that we would leave. If we left, there'd be peace. They'd work out their own problems. All would be well if the Westerners simply let them be.

Well, that worked out just about as well as the previous policy, didn't it?

They own this violence, for good or for bad.

[riderinthestorm]

10. The entire ME and No Africa is teetering on the brink of a sectarian religious war, Sunni v Shia

We started the first domino...

What the US did is going to look like a picnic in a few years as the genocide escalates.





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[cthulu2016]

11. Mere celebratory fireworks... it's their 4th of July, you know.

I am sure many flower petals were thrown.

[Zorra]

12. Golly gee, who knew? Who would have ever thought something like this would happen?

Hate to say we told you so...but we told you so.

Day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year.

[ReRe]

13. I did.

K&R

And this is what I did:

[spanone]

14. cheney war criminal '....I disagree'

MR. RUSSERT: And even though the International Atomic Energy Agency said he does not have a nuclear program, we disagree?

VICE PRES. CHENEY: I disagree, yes. And you’ll find the CIA, for example, and other key parts of our intelligence community disagree. Let’s talk about the nuclear proposition for a minute. We’ve got, again, a long record here. It’s not as though this is a fresh issue. In the late ’70s, Saddam Hussein acquired nuclear reactors from the French. 1981, the Israelis took out the Osirak reactor and stopped his nuclear weapons development at the time. Throughout the ’80s, he mounted a new effort. I was told when I was defense secretary before the Gulf War that he was eight to 10 years away from a nuclear weapon. And we found out after the Gulf War that he was within one or two years of having a nuclear weapon because he had a massive effort under way that involved four or five different technologies for enriching uranium to produce fissile material.

We know that based on intelligence that he has been very, very good at hiding these kinds of efforts. He’s had years to get good at it and we know he has been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons. And we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons. I think Mr. ElBaradei frankly is wrong. And I think if you look at the track record of the International Atomic Energy Agency and this kind of issue, especially where Iraq’s concerned, they have consistently underestimated or missed what it was Saddam Hussein was doing. I don’t have any reason to believe they’re any more valid this time than they’ve been in the past.

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/bush/cheneymeetthepress.htm