Iraq War started March 20, 2003... 7 years later

[Ichingcarpenter]

And we are still there!


Thank God that we stopped Hussein WMD program and
and we brought Peace and Freedom to the Middle East



What a Cosmic Joke

[PuraVidaDreamin]

1. About that joke...

That joke is on us, and the innocent Iraqi people- The only ones laughing
are the MIC, big business, big pharma, and the media.

I totally agree.

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. I wonder if the US TV News will do a story on it?

Something like they did when Reagan Died and kept the story going
for 5 days ?

Do you think it is as important as Tim Russets' Death or Tiger Woods sex life?

I wonder if they will cover it

[timtom]

3. Not to put too fine a point on it, but...

I see it as, "illegal invasion and occupation of a sovereign nation started March 20, 2003... 7 years later."

Other than that, K & R, because I shan't forget this atrocity.

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. Totally agree

Adelman, 2/2002.

"Liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk."

Cheney, 3/2003.
"I think it'll go relatively quickly, …Weeks rather than months."

Wolfowitz, 3/2003.
Iraq: "can really finance its own reconstruction."

Fact:It has cost the US over $325 billion.



Bush, 5/2005.
"Good news to the men and women who fought ... their mission is complete."


Bush, 5/2005.

"You got to keep repeating things over and over and over ... to kind of catapult the propaganda."



Rumsfeld: WMD? We know where they are. Baghdad; east, west, south & north.
Mar. 30, 2003

Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense



MILLONS DIED BECAUSE THEY LIED
BILLIONS GONE AFTER THEY DIED

[timtom]

12. Thanks for the quotes.

Almost forgot about all those. Bookmarking for posterity.

[Echo In Light]

5. .

k/r

[raccoon]

6. Yep, a lot of dumbass Americans thought it would be over real quickly, like Gulf War Part I.

Guess what! It wasn't. THEY LIED. :grr: :banghead:

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. The War brought me to DU

in 2003
but I had another similar name at that time.

7 FUCKING YEARS UNBELIEVABLE

[timtom]

13. There was a small group of local Catholics

who protested the invasion and occupation every Friday, starting before the launch date.

Although the number has dropped to a handful, they are still there, God bless 'em. I had joined them a couple of times, but, as Frost says, "knowing how way leads on to way," I didn't get back.

But, I honk at them and wave everytime I see them.

[Mari333]

8. and nary a peep out of the bought off MSM...about either insane occupation

the elephant standing in the room, the costs of lives and money..everyone tiptoes around it.the only news presented are sound byte propaganda.


not one embedded reporter showing any truths on the ground.
not one article showing the massive fraud.

nada.

[raccoon]

9. You could start a thread with this! nt

[MattBaggins]

10. I think your dates are off a little bit. The Iraq War started in 1990

We have been at this for 20 years now.

Yes 20 long years.

[4lbs]

17. It started when Bush Sr. gave Saddam Hussein the tacit approval to invade Kuwait, and then

told him to leave when he actually did invade.

Hussein was involved in a dispute with Kuwait over his claim that they were angle-drilling across the border into oil under his land. He asked the US what they would do if he chose to invade Kuwait and received a generic "Keep us out of this dispute. You do what you feel you need to do."

Therefore, tacit approval to invade Kuwait. The Bush Admin back then probably didn't think he would actually invade like he threatened, but he did. However, that's a mistake on the US' part because he invaded and fought Iran in the 1980s, a much more powerful and bigger country than Kuwait. Kuwait had no ability to stand up to him militarily.

Hussein normally wouldn't have given a second thought to invade Kuwait. His only concern was the US response and support of Iraq. The US had supported him for 8 years during his war with Iran, and he was worried about losing that support. That was the only reason he didn't invade several years before. Once he got that tacit approval he went ahead with his invasion plan.

[gratuitous]

11. Donald Rumsfeld

It could last six days or six weeks. I doubt six months.

Fucker's still drawing a fat government pension, too. I wonder how often he gets around to seeing any of the families of the men and women who are still doing hard time Iraq? Does he even think about them? Does he ask himself a round of questions each morning, supplying the most soul-soothing answers, then get dressed and go on about his day without a care in the world? Gracious, yes!

[4lbs]

14. The latest elections in Iraq (yesterday and today) went off with almost no violence.

A vast improvement from years past, and gives even more impetus to maintaining the timeline to remove all combat troops by August of this year.

If the elections had been rife with explosions and shootings, then US combat troops would have likely been extended further.

However, I do agree that the war was started on a bald-faced lie and there were never any WMD in Iraq after 1998 (except those we introduced ourselves).

Peace and Freedom in the Middle East? Even the best outcome in Iraq was never going to bring peace and freedom. That would only happen when Israel and Palestine hug each other and stop killing each other.

[walldude]

15. LMAO.. yeah yesterday.. what about last week?

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/07/world/la-fg-iraq-vote7-2010mar07

Reporting from Baghdad — Dozens of mortar rounds thudded across Baghdad on Sunday morning and at least 12 people were killed as Iraqis went to the polls in an election testing the stability of the country's still-fragile democracy.

Insurgents had vowed to disrupt the elections -- which they see as validating the Shiite-led government and the U.S. presence -- with violence in order to increase uncertainty over a looming U.S. troop drawdown and widen still jagged sectarian divisions.

What are you kidding, these people still have to dodge mortars to vote. A vast improvement? You mean over last week? :rofl:

Nice try.

[quinnox]

16. I was so pissed at the time

I couldn't believe that all the protests and all the millions of people against this didn't amount to a hill of beans to Bush, he went and did it anyway.

This was one of the biggest blunders in United States military history in my opinion.