Wow... are you this disillusioned in real life, or do you just play this on the internet? So we went in wiped out their infrastructure and killed/caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis at the cost of thousands of lives, trillions of dollars, and worldwide political clout.
You mean, why don't I suffer from years long BDS that has been repeated so long, it has become quasi-Reality in BDS'rs minds? It's because I can seperate thinking from feeling. Hard, I know...
So we went and wiped out the infrastructure that we needed to wipe out, not all of it, that was already crumbling because of 2 decades worth of sanctions, killed only who we needed to kill or were accidentally killed because of the innocents fellow muslims provoking a fight in say a crowded market, watched as muslims killed themselves wholesale by the hundred thousands, did cost ourselves hundreds of billions of dollars because we went about the occupation and rebuilding the assbackwards wrong way, and lost worldwide political clout that really won't matter, given none of them matter.
There, fixed that for you.
What we got was taking a fairly modern secular country ruled by a terrible dictator and turned it a wreck of a country ruled by a highly unstable religious government. Yea so much better and so worth it especially when in the "long run" the old way probably would have panned out better. Unstable things don't make for good long term plans, but I understand why subtilities like that are beyond you. Yea GO BUSH!
What we got was a terror ran forced secular country that was good for only one minority party (and it wasn't even that good for them) ruled by a terrible dictator and his terrible regime, watched as Iraqis and their fellow muslims decided themselves to turn it into a wreck of a country despite our best efforts, ruled by Politicians who the Iraqis themselves elected. Finally after they decided to stop butchering themselves and got 30-40 years of pent up emotion and repression (mostly) out of their systems did their country start healing itself - because of what we went and did for them; which, no one else would do, but they'd sure sit and watch the brutal regime, speak really condemning words, and then do some oil for whatever scandal shit exploiting them. Yea GO (HYPOCRITICAL) WORLD!
Why do I have to keep correcting your BDS posts? Lets keep going...
This is why your standard republicans of today deserve no place in power. They can't tell the difference between going into a country and smashing it to pieces hoping it all magically works out in the end, and carefully helping out one side of a conflict largely in an attempt to minimize civilian causalities with very little long-term commitment. Also, by your reasoning we can look to the westboro baptist church and the uni-bomber to understand the true nature of todays conservative America.
This is why your standard democrats of today deserve no place in power. The can't tell the difference between nobly going into a country and helping it despite the best efforts of its own temporairily insane citizens and muslim brothers, and those same citizens and fellow muslims shunning the help and deciding to wreck the place and create as much chaos and killing as possible because they can. Also, by your own reasoning, we can look to the westboro baptist church and the uni-bomber, with some crack whore sprinkled in, to understand the true nature of todays progressive America.
Chuck