Iraq

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I agree with Glenn Beck. Seriously. I’m not kidding.

Every once in a while, people with strong political biases will step back and question their own beliefs.  When that happens, it rightly makes the news.

The situation in Iraq has produced a few turnarounds, the most surprising of which is former shock radio host and current talk radio host Glenn Beck.  “[Liberals] said we couldn’t force freedom on people,” Beck said yesterday. “Let me lead with my mistakes. You were right. Liberals, you were right, we shouldn’t have.”

He went on:  glenn_beck

“In spite of the things I felt at the time when we went into war, liberals said, ‘We shouldn’t get involved, we shouldn’t nation-build and there was no indication the people of Iraq had the will to be free. I thought that was insulting at the time. Everybody wants to be free.”  However, he admitted, “You cannot force democracy on the Iraqis or anybody else.  It doesn’t work. They don’t understand it or even really want it.”

Pat Robertson said similar things as well.  “And so to sell the American people on weapons of mass destruction, he had WMD and was getting [concentrated uranium] yellowcake out of Africa and all of that, it was a lot of nonsense,” the preacher said. “We were sold a bill of goods, we should never have gone into that country!  As bad as Saddam Hussein was, he held those warring factions in check, and he contained those radical Islamists,” he continued. “It’s too late to fix it. It’s unfixable. Those simmering animosities have been there for centuries.”  (Of course Robertson thinks the solution is just around the corner, what with the coming Rapture and everything.)

All this makes Joe Biden look like he may know what he’s talking about with foreign policy.  While he did vote for going into Iraq, he states it was because of Bush’s lies about weapons of mass destruction.  But almost as soon as we were there, Biden suggested splitting the country into three factions.  “The idea, as in Bosnia, is to maintain a united Iraq by decentralizing it, giving each ethno-religious group — Kurd, Sunni Arab and Shiite Arab — room to run its own affairs, while leaving the central government in charge of common interests,” he wrote in a New York Times editorial in 2006.

“It is increasingly clear that President Bush does not have a strategy for victory in Iraq,” he said. “Rather, he hopes to prevent defeat and pass the problem along to his successor.”

Maybe we should be listening to Biden more often, hm?

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Obama’s Time Machine

Obama has been using his Time Machine again.  And this time, in coordination with his vampire abilities to charm people into doing his bidding.*   168349

The latest example where he had used his Time Machine was when he went back to 2008 and charmed President George W. Bush into signing a treaty requiring the United States to pull all of its troops out of Iraq by 2011.   That is the only explanation I can think of to explain why all the pundits over at Fox News keep blaming Obama.  (Well, come on, they aren’t going to blame Bush, are they?  He declared “Mission Accomplished” almost immediately after the Iraq war had begun so it can’t be his fault!  Remember, Donald Rumsfield said it would last “six months, top.”)

Where Obama went wrong was in not staying there forever, according to John McCain (who also had supported a war that he proclaimed would be over by 2004.)

These guys who were all massively wrong about what would happen in Iraq are now blaming Obama for their mistakes over ten years ago.   Why anyone would listen to any one these incredibly wrong people have to say is beyond me.

 

* Does this look like a blatant attempt to promote my latest book “Bloodsuckers:  A Vampire Runs For President”?  Thought so.

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Surprised about Iraq?

“Iraq wasn’t a threat to the US when we invaded it in 2003, but thousands of lives and billions of dollars later, it finally is.” – Andy Borowitz

All experts told us that Sadaam Hussein had kept the three religious factions of Iraq from a civil war through his strong-arm tactics.  Even before George W. Bush lied to us about Sadaam, leading to thousands of American deaths and being considered as a war criminal by anyone who understands the term, we knew this to be true. BushMissionAccomplished I recall that after Sadaam fell, there were experts saying the best thing we could do would be to split the country into three parts or else there would be a civil war.  Bush refused, and more Americans died.  

Obama kept his promise to get out of there (a decision that was supported by the vast majority of Americans), and the civil war that everyone predicted has now happened.  (Seriously, did anyone with a brain think that democracy would suddenly flower?)

So now the Republicans are blaming Obama.  Apparently they would prefer that we stayed there and kept getting Americans killed to postpone the inevitable.  Not one is blaming Bush for his illegal war, his “Mission Accomplished” claim, and his pure ineptitude for getting us into an unnecessary and pointless war.