Do you agree with the Death to America sentiment in the mid east? Who are you rooting for?
I just wanted his answer on if we should have overthrown Saddam in ‘03 so we could all see how dumb he is.
I don’t think the response to Death to America sentiment is to wage endless war against them and wasting our blood and treasure.
I voted for the invasion, but in hindsight feel it was a mistake and have apologized for it. That said, it wasn't like leaving Saddam in power was a great option either for stability in the region and international precedent when it comes to WMD inspections regimes. It's much like Vietnam in this respeck in that there weren't a lot of good options on the table.
The good option was to do nothing. Saddam didn’t have WMD and the IAEA said so in 2002, which the Bush admin sought to discredit. We should listen to the people that do the inspections, and probably the people who were against the war from the outset. Removing Saddam was far more disastrous for regional stability than letting him remain in power would have been.
Yes, the good less bad option was to leave him in power.
We? should have gone in hard without lube on Saddam during Desert Swarm when the entire fucking world was on our? side.
Then pivoted and rammed it hard into Iran after a brief refractory period just because we? were tanned and ready.
This
I remember 1979 as one of the working stiffs when I saw a guy with a Bomb Iran shirt
Should have nipped that shit in the bud
Many of our problems in the Middle East (and Persia) stem from our not going in dry on the Ayatollah in 1979. That was an act of war that required blowing them back into the stone age. Embassies are sovereign soil.
Do you agree with the Death to America sentiment in the mid east? Who are you rooting for?
I just wanted his answer on if we should have overthrown Saddam in ‘03 so we could all see how dumb he is.
I don’t think the response to Death to America sentiment is to wage endless war against them and wasting our blood and treasure.
I voted for the invasion, but in hindsight feel it was a mistake and have apologized for it. That said, it wasn't like leaving Saddam in power was a great option either for stability in the region and international precedent when it comes to WMD inspections regimes. It's much like Vietnam in this respeck in that there weren't a lot of good options on the table.
The good option was to do nothing. Saddam didn’t have WMD and the IAEA said so in 2002, which the Bush admin sought to discredit. We should listen to the people that do the inspections, and probably the people who were against the war from the outset. Removing Saddam was far more disastrous for regional stability than letting him remain in power would have been.
Yes, the good less bad option was to leave him in power.
We? should have gone in hard without lube on Saddam during Desert Swarm when the entire fucking world was on our? side.
Then pivoted and rammed it hard into Iran after a brief refractory period just because we? were tanned and ready.
This
I remember 1979 as one of the working stiffs when I saw a guy with a Bomb Iran shirt
Should have nipped that shit in the bud
Many of our problems in the Middle East (and Persia) stem from our not going in dry on the Ayatollah in 1979. That was an act of war that required blowing them back into the stone age. Embassies are sovereign soil.
Come see the chickenhawks call for more pointless brutal war. What great threat does modern Iran represent that we needed to level their country now or 40 years ago.
Islam knows all about pointless brutal war. I guess embassies can get attacked with 0 consequences
Chickenhawk wants to go to war against every country in which our embassy was attacked. Gotta be ready to deploy in dozens of them. It’s just common sense.
Root root root for the away team
If they don't win its a shame
For its one two three nuclear strikes and its the old ball game
Some Condi “we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud” fear mongering right here.
Do you agree with the Death to America sentiment in the mid east? Who are you rooting for?
I just wanted his answer on if we should have overthrown Saddam in ‘03 so we could all see how dumb he is.
I don’t think the response to Death to America sentiment is to wage endless war against them and wasting our blood and treasure.
I voted for the invasion, but in hindsight feel it was a mistake and have apologized for it. That said, it wasn't like leaving Saddam in power was a great option either for stability in the region and international precedent when it comes to WMD inspections regimes. It's much like Vietnam in this respeck in that there weren't a lot of good options on the table.
The good option was to do nothing. Saddam didn’t have WMD and the IAEA said so in 2002, which the Bush admin sought to discredit. We should listen to the people that do the inspections, and probably the people who were against the war from the outset. Removing Saddam was far more disastrous for regional stability than letting him remain in power would have been.
Yes, the good less bad option was to leave him in power.
We? should have gone in hard without lube on Saddam during Desert Swarm when the entire fucking world was on our? side.
Then pivoted and rammed it hard into Iran after a brief refractory period just because we? were tanned and ready.
This
I remember 1979 as one of the working stiffs when I saw a guy with a Bomb Iran shirt
Should have nipped that shit in the bud
Many of our problems in the Middle East (and Persia) stem from our not going in dry on the Ayatollah in 1979. That was an act of war that required blowing them back into the stone age. Embassies are sovereign soil.
Do you agree with the Death to America sentiment in the mid east? Who are you rooting for?
I just wanted his answer on if we should have overthrown Saddam in ‘03 so we could all see how dumb he is.
I don’t think the response to Death to America sentiment is to wage endless war against them and wasting our blood and treasure.
I voted for the invasion, but in hindsight feel it was a mistake and have apologized for it. That said, it wasn't like leaving Saddam in power was a great option either for stability in the region and international precedent when it comes to WMD inspections regimes. It's much like Vietnam in this respeck in that there weren't a lot of good options on the table.
The good option was to do nothing. Saddam didn’t have WMD and the IAEA said so in 2002, which the Bush admin sought to discredit. We should listen to the people that do the inspections, and probably the people who were against the war from the outset. Removing Saddam was far more disastrous for regional stability than letting him remain in power would have been.
Yes, the good less bad option was to leave him in power.
We? should have gone in hard without lube on Saddam during Desert Swarm when the entire fucking world was on our? side.
Then pivoted and rammed it hard into Iran after a brief refractory period just because we? were tanned and ready.
This
I remember 1979 as one of the working stiffs when I saw a guy with a Bomb Iran shirt
Should have nipped that shit in the bud
Many of our problems in the Middle East (and Persia) stem from our not going in dry on the Ayatollah in 1979. That was an act of war that required blowing them back into the stone age. Embassies are sovereign soil.
Come see the chickenhawks call for more pointless brutal war. What great threat does modern Iran represent that we needed to level their country now or 40 years ago.
Islam knows all about pointless brutal war. I guess embassies can get attacked with 0 consequences
Chickenhawk wants to go to war against every country in which our embassy was attacked. Gotta be ready to deploy in dozens of them. It’s just common sense.
Root root root for the away team
If they don't win its a shame
For its one two three nuclear strikes and its the old ball game
Some Condi “we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud” fear mongering right here.
Do you agree with the Death to America sentiment in the mid east? Who are you rooting for?
I just wanted his answer on if we should have overthrown Saddam in ‘03 so we could all see how dumb he is.
I don’t think the response to Death to America sentiment is to wage endless war against them and wasting our blood and treasure.
I voted for the invasion, but in hindsight feel it was a mistake and have apologized for it. That said, it wasn't like leaving Saddam in power was a great option either for stability in the region and international precedent when it comes to WMD inspections regimes. It's much like Vietnam in this respeck in that there weren't a lot of good options on the table.
The good option was to do nothing. Saddam didn’t have WMD and the IAEA said so in 2002, which the Bush admin sought to discredit. We should listen to the people that do the inspections, and probably the people who were against the war from the outset. Removing Saddam was far more disastrous for regional stability than letting him remain in power would have been.
Yes, the good less bad option was to leave him in power.
We? should have gone in hard without lube on Saddam during Desert Swarm when the entire fucking world was on our? side.
Then pivoted and rammed it hard into Iran after a brief refractory period just because we? were tanned and ready.
This
I remember 1979 as one of the working stiffs when I saw a guy with a Bomb Iran shirt
Should have nipped that shit in the bud
Many of our problems in the Middle East (and Persia) stem from our not going in dry on the Ayatollah in 1979. That was an act of war that required blowing them back into the stone age. Embassies are sovereign soil.
Do you agree with the Death to America sentiment in the mid east? Who are you rooting for?
I just wanted his answer on if we should have overthrown Saddam in ‘03 so we could all see how dumb he is.
I don’t think the response to Death to America sentiment is to wage endless war against them and wasting our blood and treasure.
I voted for the invasion, but in hindsight feel it was a mistake and have apologized for it. That said, it wasn't like leaving Saddam in power was a great option either for stability in the region and international precedent when it comes to WMD inspections regimes. It's much like Vietnam in this respeck in that there weren't a lot of good options on the table.
The good option was to do nothing. Saddam didn’t have WMD and the IAEA said so in 2002, which the Bush admin sought to discredit. We should listen to the people that do the inspections, and probably the people who were against the war from the outset. Removing Saddam was far more disastrous for regional stability than letting him remain in power would have been.
Yes, the good less bad option was to leave him in power.
We? should have gone in hard without lube on Saddam during Desert Swarm when the entire fucking world was on our? side.
Then pivoted and rammed it hard into Iran after a brief refractory period just because we? were tanned and ready.
This
I remember 1979 as one of the working stiffs when I saw a guy with a Bomb Iran shirt
Should have nipped that shit in the bud
Many of our problems in the Middle East (and Persia) stem from our not going in dry on the Ayatollah in 1979. That was an act of war that required blowing them back into the stone age. Embassies are sovereign soil.
Come see the chickenhawks call for more pointless brutal war. What great threat does modern Iran represent that we needed to level their country now or 40 years ago.
Islam knows all about pointless brutal war. I guess embassies can get attacked with 0 consequences
Chickenhawk wants to go to war against every country in which our embassy was attacked. Gotta be ready to deploy in dozens of them. It’s just common sense.
Root root root for the away team
If they don't win its a shame
For its one two three nuclear strikes and its the old ball game
Some Condi “we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud” fear mongering right here.
Supporting Saddam in the brutal Iran-Iraq war was bad enough, but these chickenhawks think we should’ve gotten our own troops involved and bombed a few thousand Persians ourselves. Just a “common sense” response to an “act of war” like seizing an embassy.
Supporting Saddam in the brutal Iran-Iraq war was bad enough, but these chickenhawks think we should’ve gotten our own troops involved and bombed a few thousand Persians ourselves. Just a “common sense” response to an “act of war” like seizing an embassy.
Supporting Saddam in the brutal Iran-Iraq war was bad enough, but these chickenhawks think we should’ve gotten our own troops involved and bombed a few thousand Persians ourselves. Just a “common sense” response to an “act of war” like seizing an embassy.
Supporting Saddam was great realpolitik
Was it? The Iraqi invasion was repelled and it ended in stalemate with the Iranian regime still in place and close to a million dead on each side when the fighting ended. Of course an idiot like you thinks that’s brilliant “realpolitik”. Mass unnecessarily death for the sake of your high-minded “realpolitik”. Was overthrowing Saddam in ‘03 brilliant “realpolitik” as well?
Supporting Saddam in the brutal Iran-Iraq war was bad enough, but these chickenhawks think we should’ve gotten our own troops involved and bombed a few thousand Persians ourselves. Just a “common sense” response to an “act of war” like seizing an embassy.
Supporting Saddam was great realpolitik
Was it? The Iraqi invasion was repelled and it ended in stalemate with the Iranian regime still in place and close to a million dead on each side when the fighting ended. Of course an idiot like you thinks that’s brilliant “realpolitik”. Mass unnecessarily death for the sake of your high-minded “realpolitik”. Was overthrowing Saddam in ‘03 brilliant “realpolitik” as well?
I like to blame America for Sunni vs Shia violence
Supporting Saddam in the brutal Iran-Iraq war was bad enough, but these chickenhawks think we should’ve gotten our own troops involved and bombed a few thousand Persians ourselves. Just a “common sense” response to an “act of war” like seizing an embassy.
Supporting Saddam was great realpolitik
Was it? The Iraqi invasion was repelled and it ended in stalemate with the Iranian regime still in place and close to a million dead on each side when the fighting ended. Of course an idiot like you thinks that’s brilliant “realpolitik”. Mass unnecessarily death for the sake of your high-minded “realpolitik”. Was overthrowing Saddam in ‘03 brilliant “realpolitik” as well?
I like to blame America for Sunni vs Shia violence
Well we created a "mindset" when we called them evil that made this all possible.
The way she can barely contain her laughter...it's amazing the left can't see she hates America. She's not even trying to hide it.
What Derek just said. A good chunk of the left hates America right there with her. Obviously the electorate in Minnesota does. They knew what she was, and elected her anyway. Nothing good comes from Minnesota. Except Prince.
Progressives seem to have a chinstinctive revulsion to the familiar, a certain homophobia of their own. Transexuals are celebrated simply because they are different, for example. This is most evident with progressive relationship to the Middle East and Islam. Their values couldn't be more different. However, Middle Eastern countries are opposed to the United States and thus are adopted as allies of the progressives, closer held by progressives the more virulent opposed to the US those countries are. By extension, Muslims are upheld by progressives because they believe Islamic values most challenge mainstream American values. Other than perhaps Islam's economic teachings, it's hard to see ideological comity between the two value sets.
They mostly just hate white people
So do I. But I hate sand people too. I basically hate everyone except Orthodox Jews.
The way she can barely contain her laughter...it's amazing the left can't see she hates America. She's not even trying to hide it.
What Derek just said. A good chunk of the left hates America right there with her. Obviously the electorate in Minnesota does. They knew what she was, and elected her anyway. Nothing good comes from Minnesota. Except Prince.
Progressives seem to have a chinstinctive revulsion to the familiar, a certain homophobia of their own. Transexuals are celebrated simply because they are different, for example. This is most evident with progressive relationship to the Middle East and Islam. Their values couldn't be more different. However, Middle Eastern countries are opposed to the United States and thus are adopted as allies of the progressives, closer held by progressives the more virulent opposed to the US those countries are. By extension, Muslims are upheld by progressives because they believe Islamic values most challenge mainstream American values. Other than perhaps Islam's economic teachings, it's hard to see ideological comity between the two value sets.
They mostly just hate white people
So do I. But I hate sand people too. I basically hate everyone except Orthodox Jews.
It's their best-in-the-world Joobs that exempts them, isn't it?
Do you agree with the Death to America sentiment in the mid east? Who are you rooting for?
I just wanted his answer on if we should have overthrown Saddam in ‘03 so we could all see how dumb he is.
I don’t think the response to Death to America sentiment is to wage endless war against them and wasting our blood and treasure.
I voted for the invasion, but in hindsight feel it was a mistake and have apologized for it. That said, it wasn't like leaving Saddam in power was a great option either for stability in the region and international precedent when it comes to WMD inspections regimes. It's much like Vietnam in this respeck in that there weren't a lot of good options on the table.
The good option was to do nothing. Saddam didn’t have WMD and the IAEA said so in 2002, which the Bush admin sought to discredit. We should listen to the people that do the inspections, and probably the people who were against the war from the outset. Removing Saddam was far more disastrous for regional stability than letting him remain in power would have been.
He had some old chemical weapons buried in the ground. That’s a far cry from being weaponized or the “smoking gun mushroom cloud” that we were sold. No active nuclear weapons program. No biological weapons. No weaponized chemical agents. And no evidence any of those materials would be given to Al Qaeda.
He had chemical weapons that were supposed to have been destroyed, as per the unconditional surrender of Desert Storm. Weaponized chemical weapons that were buried to hide them from the inspectors. Don’t make it out that he misplaced his Tonka truck in a sandbox.
Do you agree with the Death to America sentiment in the mid east? Who are you rooting for?
I just wanted his answer on if we should have overthrown Saddam in ‘03 so we could all see how dumb he is.
I don’t think the response to Death to America sentiment is to wage endless war against them and wasting our blood and treasure.
I voted for the invasion, but in hindsight feel it was a mistake and have apologized for it. That said, it wasn't like leaving Saddam in power was a great option either for stability in the region and international precedent when it comes to WMD inspections regimes. It's much like Vietnam in this respeck in that there weren't a lot of good options on the table.
The good option was to do nothing. Saddam didn’t have WMD and the IAEA said so in 2002, which the Bush admin sought to discredit. We should listen to the people that do the inspections, and probably the people who were against the war from the outset. Removing Saddam was far more disastrous for regional stability than letting him remain in power would have been.
Yes, the good less bad option was to leave him in power.
We? should have gone in hard without lube on Saddam during Desert Swarm when the entire fucking world was on our? side.
Then pivoted and rammed it hard into Iran after a brief refractory period just because we? were tanned and ready.
This
I remember 1979 as one of the working stiffs when I saw a guy with a Bomb Iran shirt
Should have nipped that shit in the bud
Many of our problems in the Middle East (and Persia) stem from our not going in dry on the Ayatollah in 1979. That was an act of war that required blowing them back into the stone age. Embassies are sovereign soil.
Do you agree with the Death to America sentiment in the mid east? Who are you rooting for?
I just wanted his answer on if we should have overthrown Saddam in ‘03 so we could all see how dumb he is.
I don’t think the response to Death to America sentiment is to wage endless war against them and wasting our blood and treasure.
I voted for the invasion, but in hindsight feel it was a mistake and have apologized for it. That said, it wasn't like leaving Saddam in power was a great option either for stability in the region and international precedent when it comes to WMD inspections regimes. It's much like Vietnam in this respeck in that there weren't a lot of good options on the table.
The good option was to do nothing. Saddam didn’t have WMD and the IAEA said so in 2002, which the Bush admin sought to discredit. We should listen to the people that do the inspections, and probably the people who were against the war from the outset. Removing Saddam was far more disastrous for regional stability than letting him remain in power would have been.
Yes, the good less bad option was to leave him in power.
We? should have gone in hard without lube on Saddam during Desert Swarm when the entire fucking world was on our? side.
Then pivoted and rammed it hard into Iran after a brief refractory period just because we? were tanned and ready.
This
I remember 1979 as one of the working stiffs when I saw a guy with a Bomb Iran shirt
Should have nipped that shit in the bud
Many of our problems in the Middle East (and Persia) stem from our not going in dry on the Ayatollah in 1979. That was an act of war that required blowing them back into the stone age. Embassies are sovereign soil.
Come see the chickenhawks call for more pointless brutal war. What great threat does modern Iran represent that we needed to level their country now or 40 years ago.
We're rooting for America
I understand that you aren't
Agree to disagree
You let someone attack without consequence they keep attacking. You would have made a great Hitler apologist too
Modern Iran is just like Nazi Germany. We must defeat them into total submission in order to secure us from their nefarious activity.
No shit Sherlock. Iran is and has never been an existential threat in the way Nazi Germany was. But how can you have deterrence without a credible threat of force. Iran has is led by radical religious zealots and has been destabilizing the region for 40 years. If we had made them pay in 1979 the world would be a better place. Our getting it wrong on Iraq War 2.0 doesn’t change this.
Do you agree with the Death to America sentiment in the mid east? Who are you rooting for?
I just wanted his answer on if we should have overthrown Saddam in ‘03 so we could all see how dumb he is.
I don’t think the response to Death to America sentiment is to wage endless war against them and wasting our blood and treasure.
I voted for the invasion, but in hindsight feel it was a mistake and have apologized for it. That said, it wasn't like leaving Saddam in power was a great option either for stability in the region and international precedent when it comes to WMD inspections regimes. It's much like Vietnam in this respeck in that there weren't a lot of good options on the table.
#metoo
I've eaten some crow here thanks to @dflea #NeverForgetting
Your total war post nailed it.
Hey most of us were suckered in when they trotted Colin Powell out and got him to lie to us all. I always supported a preemtive war to get chemical weapons out of the hand of a lunatic who would likely use them against us. I believed Powell. Once I realized we all got duped I was pissed, and probably more pissed than most because I had to spend the next several years over there bombing terrorists who only came there because we showed up to fight. Total fuck up, and the last time I ever trust this government.
Do you agree with the Death to America sentiment in the mid east? Who are you rooting for?
I just wanted his answer on if we should have overthrown Saddam in ‘03 so we could all see how dumb he is.
I don’t think the response to Death to America sentiment is to wage endless war against them and wasting our blood and treasure.
I voted for the invasion, but in hindsight feel it was a mistake and have apologized for it. That said, it wasn't like leaving Saddam in power was a great option either for stability in the region and international precedent when it comes to WMD inspections regimes. It's much like Vietnam in this respeck in that there weren't a lot of good options on the table.
#metoo
I've eaten some crow here thanks to @dflea #NeverForgetting
Your total war post nailed it.
Hey most of us were suckered in when they trotted Colin Powell out and got him to lie to us all. I always supported a preemtive war to get chemical weapons out of the hand of a lunatic who would likely use them against us. I believed Powell. Once I realized we all got duped I was pissed, and probably more pissed than most because I had to spend the next several years over there bombing terrorists who only came there because we showed up to fight. Total fuck up, and the last time I ever trust this government.
If u just trust the Dems they'll make everything right
Do you agree with the Death to America sentiment in the mid east? Who are you rooting for?
I just wanted his answer on if we should have overthrown Saddam in ‘03 so we could all see how dumb he is.
I don’t think the response to Death to America sentiment is to wage endless war against them and wasting our blood and treasure.
I voted for the invasion, but in hindsight feel it was a mistake and have apologized for it. That said, it wasn't like leaving Saddam in power was a great option either for stability in the region and international precedent when it comes to WMD inspections regimes. It's much like Vietnam in this respeck in that there weren't a lot of good options on the table.
The good option was to do nothing. Saddam didn’t have WMD and the IAEA said so in 2002, which the Bush admin sought to discredit. We should listen to the people that do the inspections, and probably the people who were against the war from the outset. Removing Saddam was far more disastrous for regional stability than letting him remain in power would have been.
Yes, the good less bad option was to leave him in power.
We? should have gone in hard without lube on Saddam during Desert Swarm when the entire fucking world was on our? side.
Then pivoted and rammed it hard into Iran after a brief refractory period just because we? were tanned and ready.
This
I remember 1979 as one of the working stiffs when I saw a guy with a Bomb Iran shirt
Should have nipped that shit in the bud
Many of our problems in the Middle East (and Persia) stem from our not going in dry on the Ayatollah in 1979. That was an act of war that required blowing them back into the stone age. Embassies are sovereign soil.
Do you agree with the Death to America sentiment in the mid east? Who are you rooting for?
I just wanted his answer on if we should have overthrown Saddam in ‘03 so we could all see how dumb he is.
I don’t think the response to Death to America sentiment is to wage endless war against them and wasting our blood and treasure.
I voted for the invasion, but in hindsight feel it was a mistake and have apologized for it. That said, it wasn't like leaving Saddam in power was a great option either for stability in the region and international precedent when it comes to WMD inspections regimes. It's much like Vietnam in this respeck in that there weren't a lot of good options on the table.
The good option was to do nothing. Saddam didn’t have WMD and the IAEA said so in 2002, which the Bush admin sought to discredit. We should listen to the people that do the inspections, and probably the people who were against the war from the outset. Removing Saddam was far more disastrous for regional stability than letting him remain in power would have been.
Yes, the good less bad option was to leave him in power.
We? should have gone in hard without lube on Saddam during Desert Swarm when the entire fucking world was on our? side.
Then pivoted and rammed it hard into Iran after a brief refractory period just because we? were tanned and ready.
This
I remember 1979 as one of the working stiffs when I saw a guy with a Bomb Iran shirt
Should have nipped that shit in the bud
Many of our problems in the Middle East (and Persia) stem from our not going in dry on the Ayatollah in 1979. That was an act of war that required blowing them back into the stone age. Embassies are sovereign soil.
Come see the chickenhawks call for more pointless brutal war. What great threat does modern Iran represent that we needed to level their country now or 40 years ago.
We're rooting for America
I understand that you aren't
Agree to disagree
You let someone attack without consequence they keep attacking. You would have made a great Hitler apologist too
Modern Iran is just like Nazi Germany. We must defeat them into total submission in order to secure us from their nefarious activity.
No shit Sherlock. Iran is and has never been an existential threat in the way Nazi Germany was. But how can you have deterrence without a credible threat of force. Iran has is led by radical religious zealots and has been destabilizing the region for 40 years. If we had made them pay in 1979 the world would be a better place. Our getting it wrong on Iraq War 2.0 doesn’t change this.
“Destabilizing the region” like when they prevented ISIS from sweeping through Damascus and Baghdad in 2015? I’m not big on Iran but pretending they’ve been a bigger force for destabilization than the Saudis is laughable. Or the single biggest event that destabilized the region in the 21st century, the Iraq War.
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Something your team actively prevents
I like to blame America for Sunni vs Shia violence
I guess not
Hard to Argue
HTH