Susu's Hubby:

I submit that invading foreign countries unilaterally is about as wacko a policy as we have ever resorted to.

Like many here I protested the decision to prosecute Iraq for the sins of others not of Iraq; don't argue that this was not the case. In almost every speech he has made about the Middle East Bushbrain has tried to get people to associate the two things and insisted that invading Iraq was a reasonable extension of the "war on nounless generalizations".

I predicted that in doing so he would create a staging area for every disenchanted jihadist from the Med to Chernobyl to come take on the Great Satan. This may have seemed excessively clever to him, but I disagree. Consolidating a widely separated enemy is not usually a smart strategy.

Once the invasion was begun, I only hope we could end it quickly, but we could not, predictably. Especially because the Bushbrains in DC had no plan to follow up their inevitable overwhelm of the Iraqi army, and failed to understand how long reconstruction would take even without the insurgency which they so incompetently misunderestimated.

This has been one badass cockup from the gitgo, pal, and you know it.

If half the goddamn money that good-for-nothing poured down the drain in Mesopotamia had been spent on upgrading our energy independence we would be kissing Arab oil goodbye for once, instead of continuing to die for it.

And just by the way, ONE of the reasons Saddam's regime had to go is that they had promised their oil output to Elf Aquitaine, the French petroleum magnates.

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