US invasion of Iraq has to rank as one of the biggest F**K UPs in history

[Postman]

Iran has finally won the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980's.

The half-assed occupation has created "greater Iran"

[redphish]

1. We need to thank george in the next election for that.

[The Magistrate]

2. Quite True, Sir

It will be written down by historians of the future as one of the worst of bungles in the record....

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

4. I hope it's not the same ones that have turned Reagan into a Demi-god

(in some circles)

[The Magistrate]

5. Those Are Not Historians, Sir

They are mere propagandists of the right....

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

6. Most assuredly, but we all know who writes the "history."

[OldLeftieLawyer]

3. You betcha

With Saddam in power, he was the perfect sectarian buffer between Iran and the rest of the Middle East.

I wonder how you say "America is SO screwed, HAHAHA!" in Farsi?

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

7. And for Halliburton, Carlyle and other "friends" of the administration, it

will go down as the biggest windfall in history.

[Muddy Waters Guitar]

8. Yep, and to the tune of trillions of US taxpayer dollars

Bush has essentially succeeded in bankrupting the US-- to hand control over Iraq to Iran on a silver platter. All the Shiite militias and parties now in control in Baghdad swear fealty to Iran's mullahs, and Iran now has effective control over Iraq's oil fields. You and me, the intrepid taxpayers of the US, are of course footing the bill for this generous gift to Iran. :puke:

The utter, absolute idiocy of it makes you sick sometimes. The only greater strategic disaster would be, oh, essentially nullifying the nuclear nonproliferation treaty and encouraging India to start a nuclear arms race in South Asia that will soon bring the gift of nuclear war and massive dissemination of nuclear arms to the world. Oh, wait... Bush is already maneuvering to do just that: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x638316

I think that Bush is trying to set the record for most foreing policy f***ups by one President. That way, he'll have his stamp in history, and he'll be tough to beat on that front. Gives you such a warm fuzzy feeling inside, doesn't it, knowing that your hard-earned tax dollars are going to turn Iran into a regional superpower? That Bush, he sure knows how to spend our money.

[NJCher]

11. It does boggle the mind

How can one person/party get so many things wrong, so consistently and so often?




Cher

[natrat]

9. little big horn X a million

[NNN0LHI]

10. Iran will end up with most of Iraq. Turkey will get what is left

I hope they will stay friends with us and sell us oil and gas.

Don

[IChing]

12. Totally agree, but for some reason this Post reminded me of this dialogue

Memorable Quotes from
The Princess Bride (1987)

Vizzini: I can't compete with you physically, and you're no match for my brains.

Westley: You're that smart?

Vizzini: Let me put it this way. Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates?
Westley: Yes.

Vizzini: Morons

Man in Black: All right. Where is the poison? The battle of wits has begun. It ends when you decide and we both drink, and find out who is right... and who is dead.

Vizzini: But it's so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you: are you the sort of man who would put the poison into his own goblet or his enemy's? Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.

Man in Black: You've made your decision then?

Vizzini: Not remotely. Because iocane comes from Australia, as everyone knows, and Australia is entirely peopled with criminals, and criminals are used to having people not trust them, as you are not trusted by me, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you.

Man in Black: Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.

Vizzini: Wait til I get going! Now, where was I?
Man in Black: Australia.

Vizzini: Yes, Australia. And you must have suspected I would have known the powder's origin, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.

Man in Black: You're just stalling now.

Vizzini: You'd like to think that, wouldn't you? You've beaten my giant, which means you're exceptionally strong, so you could've put the poison in your own goblet, trusting on your strength to save you, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But, you've also bested my Spaniard, which means you must have studied, and in studying you must have learned that man is mortal, so you would have put the poison as far from yourself as possible, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.

Man in Black: You're trying to trick me into giving away something. It won't work.

Vizzini: IT HAS WORKED! YOU'VE GIVEN EVERYTHING AWAY! I KNOW WHERE THE POISON IS!

Man in Black: Then make your choice.

Vizzini: I will, and I choose - What in the world can that be?
Vizzini:

Man in Black: What? Where? I don't see anything.

Vizzini: Well, I- I could have sworn I saw something. No matter.First, let's drink. Me from my glass, and you from yours.

Man in Black, Vizzini:

Man in Black: You guessed wrong.

Vizzini: You only think I guessed wrong! That's what's so funny! I switched glasses when your back was turned! Ha ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha -
Vizzini:

Buttercup: And to think, all that time it was your cup that was poisoned.

Man in Black: They were both poisoned. I spent the last few years building up an immunity to iocane powder.

[Bellamia]

13. I won't argue with that.

And it has created an America so unlike the one I grew up in, I feel like a stranger here.

[caledesi]

14. Don't forget how unAmerican it was to invade a soverign country

that had done nothing to us. America doesn't do this!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

15. Well, it does now, for the moment... like it or not...