Origanalist
08-14-2013, 09:31 AM
HarrisonBergeron2
Or that you were wrong. In response to the latest Sunni-Shiite violence in Iraq, Americaneocon blames Obama’s foreign policy. Huh? It was the Bush administration that agreed to this non-negotiable provision with the puppet Iraq government:
“All the United States Forces shall withdraw from all Iraqi territory no later than December 31, 2011.”
Now that U.S. occupation forces have left, old battles have resumed. In fact, no other outcome was possible since the Allies of WWI deliberately cobbled together random regions of the old Ottoman Empire to ensure oil-rich Iraq would be unstable and easily exploitable.
Iraq is fracturing into its component cultural regions, which Americaneocon http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/2013/08/scores-killed-as-new-wave-of-bombings.html notes, but wrongly attributes to Bush’s “global democratic revolution”:
There’s been a few bright spots, like the northern Kurdish region, where democratization is taking hold. But that’s despite the best efforts of this administration to sabotage the movement toward freedom in the country. What a shame.
In fact, the Kurds have long agitated for their independence. One of the sad ironies of the run-up to the invasion of Iraq was the charge that Saddam “attacked his own people,” referring to his use of poison gas against the rebellious Kurds http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halabja_poison_gas_attack. Of course, the U.S. government not only failed to condemn Iraq at the time — after all, Saddam was D.C.’s paid-for client then — but even tried to shift blame to Iran http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halabja_poison_gas_attack#Allegations_of_Iranian_i nvolvement.
http://conservativetimes.org/?p=14336
Or that you were wrong. In response to the latest Sunni-Shiite violence in Iraq, Americaneocon blames Obama’s foreign policy. Huh? It was the Bush administration that agreed to this non-negotiable provision with the puppet Iraq government:
“All the United States Forces shall withdraw from all Iraqi territory no later than December 31, 2011.”
Now that U.S. occupation forces have left, old battles have resumed. In fact, no other outcome was possible since the Allies of WWI deliberately cobbled together random regions of the old Ottoman Empire to ensure oil-rich Iraq would be unstable and easily exploitable.
Iraq is fracturing into its component cultural regions, which Americaneocon http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/2013/08/scores-killed-as-new-wave-of-bombings.html notes, but wrongly attributes to Bush’s “global democratic revolution”:
There’s been a few bright spots, like the northern Kurdish region, where democratization is taking hold. But that’s despite the best efforts of this administration to sabotage the movement toward freedom in the country. What a shame.
In fact, the Kurds have long agitated for their independence. One of the sad ironies of the run-up to the invasion of Iraq was the charge that Saddam “attacked his own people,” referring to his use of poison gas against the rebellious Kurds http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halabja_poison_gas_attack. Of course, the U.S. government not only failed to condemn Iraq at the time — after all, Saddam was D.C.’s paid-for client then — but even tried to shift blame to Iran http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halabja_poison_gas_attack#Allegations_of_Iranian_i nvolvement.
http://conservativetimes.org/?p=14336