so great big bad america conqured iraq...so what?

[mopaul]

show me something real george, like conquering russia or china or north korea, any third rate nation could've conquered iraq considering the chaos there. it's like an elephant crushing an ant, and not all that much to brag about, especially considering how it's all fallen apart and become 10 times worse.

as far as i can tell, bushco has absolutely nothing to gloat or brag about.

[bluestateguy]

1. Shhh! Don't give the little child any ideas.

He's just liable to challenege one of those countries to a war, just to show how tough he is.

And then, we'll all be appeasers and wimps for not going along with it.

[madokie]

2. except for the fact he stole 2+ elections

and presides over the most corrupt administration in American history. I'm to believe he stole the first from Ann Richards

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

3. Did we even conquer Iraq?

It doesn't appear that we ever did have control of large parts of the country in any meaningful way.

[mikeytherat]

4. mopaul, you might like this

One of my fave lines to describe what you're saying:

Fuck you, asshole.
You homophobic, redneck DICK.
Big and tough and macho, you can kick my ass...
So fucking what?
So fucking what?

"Pea" - by Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers

[rogerashton]

5. Well, Iraq WAS tougher than

Granada. Which probably says something for Reagan's smarts by comparison with the brains of the *shrub. If you wanna wage the dog, attack the weakest country you can -- why spend more?

[mopaul]

6. and panama

the mighty, mighty military of panama was such a hard fight.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. Just like Brer Rabbit conquered the Tar Baby.

Bombing the crap out of a prostate country with a wrecked military and then hunkering down in fortresses while the population takes pot shots at you for years and the "conquered" country descends into civil war and slaughter is a glorious victory.

In the meantime we pour billions into rebuilding the infrastructure we destroyed in Iraq while our own infrastructure disintegrates.

Somebody should give the FratBoy-in-Chief and his bungling generals some toy soldiers to play with instead of letting them attempt to do work they are incapable of doing.

[gratuitous]

8. Thanks for saying this

I can almost hear the plaintive wail of "support the troops." Well, war isn't a Special Olympics for the military. It's supposed to be about providing for the common defense (says so right in the Constitution). Sending the American wehrmacht to bludgeon a civilian population, whose annual GNP probably doesn't even equal our annual expenditure on defense, isn't exactly an accomplishment. And notice how the mission has morphed from defending the country from a non-existent threat to defending "freedom," a much more ephemeral notion, one that's calculated to be harder to get a grasp on.