I voted No Opinion. My reason is that I believe we had no business being there in the first place. I'm just glad that our combat troops have been pulled out.
I agree with you Janice. We should not have invaded Iraq in 2003.
We should have invaded Iraq in 1998. When Saddam originally expelled the UN weapons inspectors from his country. The UN failed in it's duties to enforce the provisions of the cease fire agreement from Desert Storm.
The UN had the right to remove him from power but chose not to.
Actually, Jeremiah we should have finished him off in 1991. George Bush I suggested the Iraqi people to rise up against Saddam if they didn't like him, giving the perception that we would help. Then when they did, we looked the other way and left them to be brutalized by that monster for 12 years. Our interventionist ways didn't work then, or since. If we'd have stayed out of the gulf in 1991, the Arab countries probably would have got rid of Saddam themselves. Or Israel would've taken him out. Or he'd still be there. Either way the USA would be better off.
But, I digress.................Once again I turn to James Madison: "Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."
No thank you Mr. President Obama, No Kool-aid for me.
I voted No Opinion. My reason
I voted No Opinion. My reason is that I believe we had no business being there in the first place. I'm just glad that our combat troops have been pulled out.
I agree with you Janice. We
I agree with you Janice. We should not have invaded Iraq in 2003.
We should have invaded Iraq in 1998. When Saddam originally expelled the UN weapons inspectors from his country. The UN failed in it's duties to enforce the provisions of the cease fire agreement from Desert Storm.
The UN had the right to remove him from power but chose not to.
Actually, Jeremiah we should
Actually, Jeremiah we should have finished him off in 1991. George Bush I suggested the Iraqi people to rise up against Saddam if they didn't like him, giving the perception that we would help. Then when they did, we looked the other way and left them to be brutalized by that monster for 12 years. Our interventionist ways didn't work then, or since. If we'd have stayed out of the gulf in 1991, the Arab countries probably would have got rid of Saddam themselves. Or Israel would've taken him out. Or he'd still be there. Either way the USA would be better off.
But, I
But, I digress.................Once again I turn to James Madison: "Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."
No thank you Mr. President Obama, No Kool-aid for me.
Madison comes off as a
Madison comes off as a prophet.