Bullypulpit
Senior Member
The war was won, cleanly and quickly. It is the peace that has been lost, and not by our troops. Responsibility for that fiasco lies squarely with George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, J.Paul Bremmer, Paul Wolfowitz and the other architects of the invasion of Iraq and its aftermath. In short the Bush administration ignored the advice of their military commanders, they failed to send enough troops, they failed to rebuild Iraq's infrastructure, they failed to meet the standards laid down by the Geneva Conventions, and other treaties the US is signatory to, for the obligations incumbent upon a belligerent occupying power.
The war was won. Our troops are now caught in the middle of a bitter civil war which our troops can make no significant progress in quelling. The solution is one which the Iraqis must hammer out themselves, and no amount of American military force is going to change this. The Iraq Study Group, headed by Bush family consiglieri James Baker, plainly stated that there is no military solution for Iraq. George W. Bush, and the rest of the chicken-hawks in the administration, steadfastly refuse to hear any voice which contradicts their messianic, manichean vision for Iraq. Even the facts on the ground in Iraq can't scratch the surface of their delusion.
George W. Bush, and his fellow travelers have bought and paid for their places in hell, in full. I pity them.
The war was won. Our troops are now caught in the middle of a bitter civil war which our troops can make no significant progress in quelling. The solution is one which the Iraqis must hammer out themselves, and no amount of American military force is going to change this. The Iraq Study Group, headed by Bush family consiglieri James Baker, plainly stated that there is no military solution for Iraq. George W. Bush, and the rest of the chicken-hawks in the administration, steadfastly refuse to hear any voice which contradicts their messianic, manichean vision for Iraq. Even the facts on the ground in Iraq can't scratch the surface of their delusion.
George W. Bush, and his fellow travelers have bought and paid for their places in hell, in full. I pity them.