Did We Win In Iraq?

Did we win in Iraq?  To answer this question, you must first determine what “we” stands for.  If you look at that decade long war from the perspective of the CEO’s of our arms manufacturers, our logistics team (Halliburton) or our private army (Blackwater) it was a clear and decisive win.  Perhaps somewhere in America, in a very nice country club or aboard a two hundred foot yacht, there should be a celebration held by the wealthy war profiteers.  Off of the Cayman Islands would be appropriate.  I would guess that it has already been held, but somehow wasn’t covered by our news media.

For the rest of us, who hold our commemoration on the ship of fools, it is not so joyous, nor can it be considered a win.  We attacked an innocent people, who had nothing to do with our 9/11 event.  We murdered well over one hundred thousand human beings.  Remember, the dozen and a half nuts on the 9/11 planes were Saudis.  Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction and we knew this before we started the bombing.  “United We Stand” was the war cry of the gullible who mindlessly followed the war drums of the Bush Administration.  As for “Freedom”, who the hell got freedom?  What we did was rekindle the flames between the Shiites and the Sunnis and Baathists.  Do you believe that the butchering of Muslims by the US helped relations between Israel and its neighbors?  And do you believe that this recent Crusade helped the relationship between Christians and Muslims?  Lt Calley, of Mia Lia fame, best summed your involvement in this war up by saying, “We of the military are a spear.  We are thrown by the American People.”  So, you no longer need to worry about going to Heaven.

Now for a glimpse into the future:  there are roughly 5,000 embassy personnel remaining in Iraq, with a little over 100 U.S. Marines providing security.  The U.S. Embassy there coordinates U.S. foreign military sales to Iraq and the rest of the Middle East.  Those arms will ultimately be used against us, if history repeats itself.

How many embassy folks were killed in Benghazi?  Was it five?  Well, that is but a drop in the bucket compared to what will probably happen in Iraq to our embassy there.  We are operating our largest embassy in the world in a country where we have no friends, but the vultures.   Americans are no more loved in Iraq than in Benghazi.  If you were a life insurance company, how would you feel about insuring those 5,100 lives and will the Democrats or the Republicans be blamed for this coming event?  I would guess that they will blame each other.

Will the religious wars ever end in the Middle East?  If you are a person of Faith, you know that Jesus will come down from the Heavens and sweep up His little darlings who chose to flame the fire.  There will be some suffering, then silence in our world.

    

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