Reuters: U.S. invasion was "idiot decision"-Iraq vice president

[Pirate Smile]

DAVOS-U.S. invasion was "idiot decision"-Iraq vice president

25 Jan 2007 13:11:04 GMT
Source: Reuters

DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 25 (Reuters) - The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 was an "idiot decision" and Iraqi troops now need to secure Baghdad to ensure the country's future, Vice-President Adel Abdul Mahdi said on Thursday.

"Iraq was put under occupation, which was an idiot decision," Mahdi said at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Mahdi said the Iraqi government planned to bring troops in to Baghdad from surrounding areas and said it was "a technical question" for the United States to decide whether to deploy more soldiers.

President George W. Bush plans to send another 21,500 troops to Iraq, a move widely criticised in the United States. On Wednesday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted against the decision, which is due to go before the Senate next week.

"If we can win this war in Baghdad then I think we can change the course of events," Mahdi told a panel on the state of affairs in Iraq.
"As Iraqis, we think we need more (Iraqi) troops in Baghdad, and we are calling for some regiments to come from other parts of the country," he said.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L25522748.htm

[Bonobo]

1. Animal House: "He can't call him an idiot!" "Yeah, only we can call him an idiot!"

[Kagemusha]

2. No one told the reporter that invasion and occupation aren't one and the same?

The US could've left.

[MrPrax]

3. Sung in the manner of American Jim Morrison©

This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end



Send the sectarian violence back where it belongs...

[w4rma]

4. Good. This is the only position he can take as a leader of that 'nation'. (nt)

[Vidar]

5. So apropos for our "idiot decider".

[lligrd]

7. Oops, Should Have Read Yours Before I Posted Mine

LOL

[Vidar]

9. Great minds think alike.

[lligrd]

6. By The Idiot "Decider" Of Course

What else would you expect? Now off to the Greatest Page with you.

[Zambero]

8. And who might the idiot(s) be?

The Three Stooges:
Chimpy, Rummy, and Curly Dick.

Bona-fide idiot-empowered by the more than 50 million idiots who actually voted for them.

[The Wizard]

16. As Dorothy said in Oz

Rummy, The Dummy and Dick. Oh my.

[MissMillie]

10. Hey, who put that pink elephant in the room?

talk about stating the obvious....

[ElboRuum]

11. Idiot Decisions...

...Lessee, * is an idiot. And he calls himself the "Decider". What are the odds that he'd come up with an 'idiot decision'.

Dunno, seems like a no-brainer to me. Of course, 'no-brainers' are precisely the reason why we're in Iraq in the first place, so what do I know?

[Botany]

12. Purple Finger Time

[volstork]

13. Of course it's an "idiot decision"...

..an idiot made it!

[disndat]

14. Touche

[sakabatou]

15. He's with the terrorists!

Or so Faux would say...

[Buzz Clik]

17. So much for greeting us with flowers.

[mikehiggins]

18. how long before these two armies are shooting at each other?

How hard is THIS one to foresee?

Heavily armed US troops working in parrallel with heavily armed Iraqi units, many of which have a whole lot of "insurgents" in their own ranks. How long before the guns start pointing at each other? A couple of triggers get pulled and then we get a replay of the Saigon collapse, with US dependents scrambling for seats on the last choppers out.

Doesn't ANYONE over there know how to play this game?

[against all enemies]

19. I know of a village in Texas that's missing it's idiot.

Maybe there's a connection?

[superconnected]

20. When they're right, they're right.