First we were told that the IRAQ invasion was to rid them of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD's). Well, we now know that there wasn't any. Then, we were told it was to liberate the IRAQI people from a brutal dictator. Okay, well, they are liberated from a brutal dictator, no matter that they are now under the rule of insurgents and terrorists, they're at least liberated from a brutal dictator. Finally, we were told that it was to bring stability to that region; however, I cannot remember the region ever being so unstable in my lifetime.
Notwithstanding the claim that we are now winning in IRAQ, we are losing miserably if in fact the current objective (of our ever CHANGING reason(s) for going in and being in IRAQ) is to stabilize the region.
Turkey is being threatened by the Northern Iraqi Kurdish people and Turkey is threatening to invade. Pakistan is under Marshall Law. Iran is claiming they will have Nukes in about a year and I'd suggest that North Korea is quietly becoming a dangerous, DANGEROUS place. Keep your head in the sand if you wish, regular people in middle eastern countries are most likely blaming the US invasion of IRAQ for the instability. It WILL create a whole new breed of children, who hate Americans and blame Americans for their problems, ready to be suicide bombers and unfortunately, they won't be as wrong as they were in the past.
I am not one of the extremists who believes we should just cut and run (although I wish we could), I just don't think it's fair or just for us to go in, tear up the IRAQI's country, then split. However, I can "unsafely" say, that I can only HOPE that I will live long enough to see the damage that George W. Bush and company has done to the country and the world repaired.
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