and he, like Sanders was right about Iraq you idiot
It's either Barry or "Urkel".Know what I mean? I called him Barry before he got elected because I thought he was an empty suit...and eight years later I'm still calling him Barry because he proved me right.
I've got a feeling that Trump and I had the same thoughts about Iraq...namely that getting rid of Saddam was a good thing...but trying to stay in Iraq to regime build was a bad thing. I would have left the Iraqi military in place to keep order in the country and then departed with a warning to whoever became the next leader of Iraq to be a responsible member of the world community or we'd be back again.
In your opinion did Coalition Provisional Authority Order No. 1, barring members of the Baath Party from all but low level government posts and Coalition Provisional Authority Order No. 2, disbanding the Iraqi army originate in the office of the president or the vice president or...?
And-----and are the exact same unemployed Iraqi young men that Coalition Provisional Authority Orders No. 1 & 2 humiliated, the exact same people that became the first ISIL recruits?
Who Disbanded the Iraqi Army?
By Fred Kaplan
It's strangely appropriate that, just as the debate gets under way over whether the Iraq war's next phase will be its last, another scuffle has broken out over how the U.S. occupation went so badly from the outset.
The dispute concerns what many regard as the Bush administration's single biggest mistake in the first few months after Saddam Hussein's ouster—the order, in May 2003, to disband the Iraqi army.
It was a move that put 250,000 young Iraqi men out of a job, out on the streets, angry, and armed—and all but guaranteed the violent chaos to come.
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With all due respect...the Iraqi insurgency was all but guaranteed by disbanding the Iraqi army...but ISIS is a whole different animal and grew out of the mess in Syria which had very little to do with Iraq. Did members of the Iraqi insurgency subsequently join ISIS? Yes, definitely...but ISIS was also drawing in recruits from around the world in massive numbers because it had been allowed to move from Syria into Iraq and conquer large territories there which gave them a base of operations and financial resources that they never would have had if Obama hadn't prematurely withdrawn US troops from Iraq. The reason that ISIS became a powerful force isn't because of an error in policy by the Bush Administration years ago...they became a powerful force because of a serious error in policy by the Obama Administration.
