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Nowhere Man · Joined: 08 Feb 2004

I like the page 2 bit where they're planning the invasion in December.

Now call me a a left-wing trolley dodger, but I still get the idea that those bat-shit insane douches frolicking about the White House circa 2002 had it in mind to take out that whole axis of evil, possibly even in the bat-shittiest time frame of before 2004. What douches.

They were clueless bout the insurgency because they were already half-way to Tehran and only looking back at the Iraqi cheerleaders.

Bat shit.

Douches.

Kuros · Joined: 27 Apr 2004

Ha ha. The neo-cons are amusing. They're like a bunch of college freshman trying to rule the world in one of their bull sessions. So naive.

Gopher · Joined: 04 Jun 2005

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

I get the feeling that those boys played way too much Risk in high school--and took it seriously.

agentX · Joined: 12 Oct 2007 Location: Jeolla province

Ah, Wolfie...getting lonely being on the political backburner, eh?

Now he's resorting to making things up.

Other than the Baathists, there was no insurgency until a certain SOMEONE decided to disband the Iraqi military, over the protests of Gen. McCaffrey.

You're doing a heckuva job there, Wolfie! Way to win one for the home team!

On the other hand · Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Location: I walk along the avenue

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

mnhnhyouh · Joined: 21 Nov 2006 Location: The Middle Kingdom

IIRC, they had boxes of U.S. flags for the locals to wave.

I still wonder what they were thinking. I think these guys are smart, so I dont understand.

So often colonial powers have put a minority in power, the minority then needs to stamp hard on the majority and needs the help of the colonizing power to help them. This makes the minority beholding to the colonizing power, and makes them do all the hard work. (AKA How To Run A Colony 101).

So in Iraq the Sunni muslims held most of the power positions in a Shiite majority country. So in comes the U.S. to instal Democracy 2.0 and expects anything other than a Shiite government, making them the same as their neighbors Iran?

What gives?

Maybe the hatred between Iraq and Iran is so deep because of their past that they wont get together? Bet that isnt true.

So why?

They didnt think this through? Maybe.

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Gopher · Joined: 04 Jun 2005

W. Bush and co. are not in fact stupid and they did put thought into this war. It was their presuppositions that tainted and undermined their effort. America's high-tech-based military superiority will prevail against any foe, in any environment, at any time or place, for one. (I dislike the analogy that some might immediately see, but I also recognize that we have seen this presupposition and can-do attitude before in American foreign relations history.)

agentX · Joined: 12 Oct 2007 Location: Jeolla province

The Fedayeen were Baathists and so were his son. They were the ones fighting the Americans before the true insurgency began after the Iraqi army was disbanded.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedayeen_Saddam#Iraqi_insurgency

catman · Joined: 18 Jul 2004

I also remember a report about Evangelicals preparing to travel to the liberated country in order to proselytize to the heathen masses.

Adventurer · Joined: 28 Jan 2006