Iraq War Reaches 5th Year

[yeahwho]

Nothing but more disgust and disappointment. This is the same post and thread done over and over on a daily basis on message boards and blogs worldwide. I'm not even sure why I bothered to put this on this site. It just becomes routine I guess.

It's the same rally cry with a slightly different agonizing twist. Another letdown and depressing marker in the Bush legacy.

March 20, 2007 marks year 5 of the Iraq War. Four years on, war costs Bush at home and abroad, By David Alexander (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070317/pl_nm/iraq_usa_bush_dc_1)

The U.S. image abroad continues to suffer, despite a concerted administration effort to repair the damage by consulting with other governments.

"The impact has been devastating," Eichenberg said. "American standing abroad is by all measures at its lowest point in history. This is true in Europe, this is true in other parts of the world. Whether this can be reversed in a new administration, Republican or Democrat, we will have to see."

[JobDDT]

I think you mean four.

Feels like five hundred.

[yeahwho]

I think you mean four.

Feels like five hundred.


Fuck. Has it not already been 4 years? Have we not begun the fifth year of fighting in Iraq?

March 20, 2003

+March 20, 2004
+March 20, 2005
+March 20, 2006
+March 20, 2007

Am I going nutz?

[kaiser soze]

And where is Osama Bin Laden???

I bet bush couldn't find Waldo if someone pointed him out

In other news, bush motorcade in accident while speeding out of D.C....to dodge the protests I assume

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-03-16-motorcade-crash_N.htm?csp=34

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20070316/i/r4045964384.jpg

Just another mess to dismiss for the bush administration

[yeahwho]

Yeah and some General with a Gay porn star name "Peter Pace (http://news.google.com/news?q=peter%20pace&svnum=10&hl=en&sa=N&ndsp=18&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&tab=in)" doesn't mind homosexuals...... just thinks homosexual acts are immoral. He says that they are OK in the army as long as they don't be homosexual. WTF? Huh? I'm not too sure how smart this guy is. He's a general?

Lead away Peter Pace, lead away.

[JobDDT]

Fuck. Has it not already been 4 years? Have we not begun the fifth year of fighting in Iraq?

March 20, 2003

+March 20, 2004
+March 20, 2005
+March 20, 2006
+March 20, 2007

Am I going nutz?

I didn't know you meant we were beginning the 5th year, I thought you were speaking of the anniversary.

[yeahwho]

I didn't know you meant we were beginning the 5th year, I thought you were speaking of the anniversary.

The more I look at my post the more I realize I write George W. Bush talks. I'm still not sure what my own point is. Thanks for trying though. :)

[Documad]

You are all correct, and the war has been going on way too long. What gets to me is that very few people in the US really give a shit. If you ask them about it, they'll have something to say, but it doesn't touch their lives on a regular basis. The only reason it touches my life is because I know a few people with family over there.

I've changed my mind. I think we should have more large protests. If only so I can remember how many other people are pissed off about this.

On my way from my work to my car every night, I walk past one of those scrolling news boards, and almost every night there is a line about how many people (usually just the US citizens) died in Iraq that day. It's become habit. I don't think I'd pay it any special attention unless the number really went up one day.

[kaiser soze]

Everyone should always remember this is a war of choice by bush's cabinet, Iraq was never an imminent threat

This war is an abomination to the innocents of Iraq, our soldiers, Christianity, Islam, the Middle East peace process, the environment, conservation of our resources, politics, and the true meaning of liberty, freedom, and justice.

Will bush attend at least one funeral........he's spent enough time at fundraisers

[yeahwho]

From an ABC-TV appearance Stephen Hadley, the national security adviser echoed a call from Bush for House Democrats to halt their effort to attach conditions or deadlines to a war- funding measure, an effort the administration has portrayed as political.

"Let's not go through the charade," he said. (So now the will of the people of which over 2/3's now are opposed to the Iraq war is a charade?)

Hadley, when asked whether Bush would have ordered the invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003, had the administration known the vast challenges it would face, replied, "I think he would." He acknowledged that "the cost has been enormous;" *but he added, in an ABC-TV appearance, that most Iraqis seemed willing to pay it to be rid of Saddam Hussein.

Hadley's comments, however, came amid new signs of weakening public support for the war — signs that included antiwar protests that drew thousands of demonstrators from Washington to Istanbul. And a new ABC/USA Today poll found that only half of Iraqis have confidence in their government, and fewer than 1 in 5 have confidence in U.S. and British troops.

*WMD was the reason we went in to Iraq.....WTF? Regime change?

[kaiser soze]

Iraqis seemed willing.....I highly doubt they were even asked how they felt

[JobDDT]

For every one time Bush said "liberate the Iraqi people" in his reasoning in the lead-up to the war, he said "Weapons of Mass Destruction" at least 30 times.

The only problem was, when there were no weapons (what they knew all along; September 11th was just a convenient holocaust that allowed them to invade a country they had wanted to get into since the first day of their administration), they changed their tune.

[QueenAdrock]

I thought that we won this thing like, 3 years and 10 months ago. Mission Accomplished and such.

Are you trying to tell me that was a lie?

[DroppinScience]

I've changed my mind. I think we should have more large protests. If only so I can remember how many other people are pissed off about this.


There was one yesterday (Saturday). There's been regular marches every few months.

[Ali]

What about the War on Terror? How long's that been goin' on?

And Afghanistan?

[yeahwho]

What about the War on Terror? How long's that been goin' on?

And Afghanistan?



I was sort of talking about Iraq in this thread. Though they correlate within this administrations strategy of escalate I'm kind of focused on this one major fuck up.

And it is so agonizing to see him escalate over and over again, he has no hope at all in his message, just spend and kill.


Todays News "Bush pleads for patience on war anniversary"
(http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2963847)

[kaiser soze]

too bad patience wasn't an option when they wanted to invade Iraq

bush's statement on Iraq fell thousands of feet short of convincing many...and then he ran out of the room skirting any chance to answer a question

he is not a leader, just a parrot