Comments on: What Was/Is The Prize?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 20:33:46 +0000

Oh, yes, free to elect democratically the government the US chooses, unlike those ungrateful terrorist voters in Palestine, Lebanon, and Venezuela.

The problem with having free and democratic elections in Iraq is that they would result in a pro-Iranian Shi’ite government that would kick the crap out of the Sunnis, and the Sunnis and their supporters know it.

I still maintain that one of the biggest mistakes made was not arranging for a formal surrender with the existing Iraqi government, which would have provided a framework as existed in Germany and Japan after WWII with whom the US could work.

Going in a firing everyone was not exactly the kind of thinking that gets you a place on the big bus. There was too much gratuitous destruction of infrastructure – physical, political, social, and economic – for anything other than a disaster to ensue.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 08:29:02 +0000

The answer they always say is “a free and democratic South Vietnam” when you ask that question, just as they always say “a free and democratic Iraq” when you ask them what’s the end game in Iraq. Thing is, that’s not a military objective. A military objective is, say, the defeat of an enemy force and the capitulation of the government which fielded said force. Furthermore, it is an objective that has nothing to do with America and Americans. Okay, so you have a free and democratic South Vietnam or Iraq. How’s that help America and Americans? I thought I was paying my taxes to the government of the UNITED STATES, not to the government of IRAQ? I want my government to be taking care of me and mine, not some folks overseas who can darn well put together their own government!

– Badtux the Buchananite Penguin