It started with supply side followers of Milton Friedman as far back as Nixon. Rumsfeld is a protege of Friedman. Remember Reagans oft repeated mantra, "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"
Our military, and our country, made that decision by removing Saddam. They should be involved only long enough to have the Iraqis take over the job for themselves. No mercs should be there at all.
The military began becoming a social experiment under Willie. We're still seeing the echoes.
Are you referring to the Iraqi military and police, who, according to Rumsfeld, would be ready in "about 6 months", per his stupid prediction in
2004? :-)
Yup. Those guys.
I just can't understand why their politicians don't trust 'em.
Trust 'em? They apparently don't even think they need an academy in which to train:
He was wrong, he is human, humans make mistakes, they are not perfect machines just as you JSB, you erred when you started smoking the weed didn't you? I don't hold it against you because you are a pot-head. I will still talk to you as long as you don't move into my town. Then you will have a problem.
should've made my sarcasm more clear.
And their "police" are about as impressive as those south of the border. It's kinda funny. When looking at our southerly neighbors, whether military or police, they all look like Keystone Cops; completely like fish out of water. Jokes. Caricatures. Corruption personified.
And if the country falls you will see a huge influx of Iraq refugees over here, just what we need.
He was wrong about 4 times, several months apart. He repeated it over and over. So did Cheney, and Bush was instructed to say it, too.
It's nothing more than words. An analogy: Every time Mexico elects a new president, the media falls all over themselves fawning over the man as though he's the Second Coming. "This time, there's going to be a difference. No more corruption, blah-blah-blah."
And every time, without fail, the man is as much, or more, corrupt than his predecessor. There's a reason they retire to Switzerland.
Iraq, and its neighbors, are nothing more than Middle East Mexicos. One and all.
Er...we've already got that happening in So. Cal., though they wouldn't classify themselves as refugees.
Most here are Chaldeans, but they're certainly here because of the mess in Iraq, both now and under Saddam.
Well,, there'll be even more for ya.
Look at the bright side, you don't have to spend billions of dollars killing and converting them to democracy and free markets, that's why they're here. And for good measure, they tend to have the same basic religion as those Americans that happen to *be* religious.
Islam has been in the U.S. for many years. I remember back in the early
1990's and a trip back to D.C. then a return cab ride to National, the driver gave us a sell job on Islam. We were engaged with him in a friendly way only because we thought if we got this guy agitated he would drive the cab into the Potomac. This is no kidding, we had the fear at that time.
They're really no problem at all. Their basic beliefs are similar to Catholicism, and tend to be hard working, family-oriented people. It's their Islamist countrymen with which I'm concerned. It's far too easy to claim Chaldean classification and sneak in with ICE or INS unaware.
Proof that ignorance breeds fear.
9/11 proves you are in denial.
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