YOU f..king traitorous IDIOT!!!
Right... it took longer because we had TRAITORS LIKE YOU here in the USA including the MSM that repeatedly helped encourage the terrorists to kill 100,000s Iraqis and US troops with statements that have BEEN PROVEN by a Harvard study to prolong yes even THWART the liberation efforts!
Check out this you idiots that don't have one bit of common sense and don't understand that "WORDS HAVE MEANINGS"!!!!
The Harvard Study asked:
THE EMBOLDENMENT EFFECT
"Are insurgents in Iraq emboldened by voices in the news media expressing dissent or calling for troop withdrawals from Iraq?
The resounding answer WAS YES!!! according to Radha Iyengar, a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in health policy research at Harvard and Jonathan Monten of the Belfer Center at the university's Kennedy School of Government.
Using data on attacks and variation in access to international news across Iraqi provinces, we identify an “emboldenment” effect by comparing the rate of insurgent attacks in areas with higher and lower access to information about U.S news after public statements critical of the war.
In Iraqi provinces that were broadly comparable in social and economic terms, attacks increased between 7 percent and 10 percent following what the researchers call "high-mention weeks," like the two just before the November 2006 election.
And these statements which idiots like YOU most likely agreed with did everything in the world to encourage recruit and reward the terrorists to continue.
Senator Kerry (D) "
American soldiers going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children."
Remember Kerry EARLIER SAID...
"Without a question, we need to disarm Saddam. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an
oppressive regime .... to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction
.... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real ...."Kerry , Jan. 23. 2003
U.S. Rep. John Murtha(D)"
Our troops killed innocent civilians in cold blood,”
Durbin (D)
"must have been done by Nazis, Soviets"--action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners.
then Senator Obama said
"troops are air-raiding villages and killing civilians,"
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid(D) "
The war is lost, the surge is not accomplishing anything "
These comments inflamed the terrorists AND demoralized our troops at the same time!
And finally consider what the Iraqi people think about idiots like you and the above that DIDN"T WANT THEM to be free!!!
"So the Iraq war was, despite all that went wrong, a good thing; the
"overwhelming majority" of Iraqis are (and presumably feel) better off because of it"
The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg put the question to Barham Salih, the former prime minister of Iraqi Kurdistan's regional government and a former deputy prime minister of Iraq's federal government.
"But," he added, "it's important to understand where we started from. ...
Literally hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were sent to mass graves.
Ten years on from the demise of Saddam Hussein, we're still discovering mass graves across Iraq.
And Iraqis are better off without Saddam Hussein --
the overwhelming majority of Iraqis are better off without Saddam Hussein."
So the Iraq war was, despite all that went wrong, a good thing; the "overwhelming majority" of Iraqis are (and presumably feel) better off because of it; and the fault for all that has gone wrong is ultimately with Iraqis themselves: It's a remarkable point of view to encounter in June 2013.
10 Years After the Fall of Saddam How Do Iraqis Look Back on the War - The Atlantic