Eradicating Iraqi Christians

Eradicating Iraqi Christians

 

Thank goodness that, at least according to President Barack Hussein Obama, the war in Iraq is finally over. 

That was certainly the implication when our president fulfilled a campaign pledge by withdrawing most U.S. troops in 2009 thereby washing his hands of the conflict after six bloody years during which we lost 4,486 brave soldiers and 32,222 members of the military were wounded.

Surely, Obama would not have withdrawn our forces had hostilities not ceased.  That would have effectively declared our troops had wasted their time and blood, suffered tens of thousands injuries and given their lives for nothing, and that America had pissed away a trillion dollars of our national treasure on a useless effort.

Well, that’s exactly what our president did and what happened in Iraq subsequent to our bug-out has proven how disastrous fulfilling a campaign promise can be.  Considering that he has failed to come through on most of his hopey-changey pledges, it’s odd that prematurely pulling out of Iraq was so near the top of his priority list, no?

I guess the scholar Obama never studied Gen. Douglas MacArthur who wisely said it makes no sense to get involved in a war unless you were prepared to win it.

It’s not the purpose here to evaluate the merits of the Iraq War which, at this point, will probably go down in history as a defeat, along with our Korea and Viet Nam failures.

Suffice to say, many reports in 2003 had indicated Saddam Hussein still possessed the deadly weapons of mass destruction he had already  employed against his own people and it was widely felt, even by such venerable Democrats as Sen. Ted Kennedy, that he wouldn’t hesitate to use them again.  The fact those WMDs were never found is most likely not attributable to President George W. Bush’s evil designs as much as to Hussein having relocated them in anticipation of an invasion.

That said, following Obama’s bug-out, Iraq has gradually descended into utter chaos as Islamic Sunnis and Shiites reignited their age-old, never ending, fratricidal, civil war.  Many Iraqis have came to wonder whether their lives under the mad Saddam and his psychopathic sons, Uday and Qusay, may have been preferable to living under their corrupt Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

Iraqi Christians, however, were much less ambivalent over their Sophie’s Choice than Sunnis and Shiites.  For the most part, they were treated no more brutally than Muslims under the Hussein clan.  That situation, that treatment, radically changed after America abandoned them. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=38330.

A Retrospective on the First Irag War

A Retrospective on the First Iraq War

 

Now that it’s vividly clear that President Barack Hussein Obama has successfully snatched humiliating defeat from the jaws of tenuous victory in Iraq and that the United States will have to return to Iraq with some sort of military action, members of the Democrat Party and their stooges in Obama’s mainstream media are busily attempting to attach blame for that extremely regrettable situation and for its future consequences on former President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and anyone else in the previous administration they can possibly scapegoat.

That pathetic effort is a reflection of how disgraceful–and forgetful–today’s liberal-leftist Democrats and their media lackeys have become.

That disgrace was highlighted by reports this week that the State Department has revealed that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) now occupies the Al Muthanna Chemicals Weapons Complex housing sarin, mustard gas, and the nerve agent VX, situated less than 50 miles from Baghdad, weapons of mass destruction the Obama administration has dismissed since they were old, contaminated, difficult to move, and therefore constituted no  military value.
 
In view of the fact our ever-indecisive commander-in-chief has yet to decide exactly what future military action would entail, let’s set aside for the moment the probable consequences of America’s re-involvement in Iraq and the possible use by ISIS of those allegedly valueless WMDs. 

Instead, let’s focus for the nonce on how and why we went into that Mideast cesspool in the first place and the Democrat senatorial hypocrites who approved of our intervention.

In a nutshell, Saddam Hussein was a certifiably sadistic megalomaniac and his sons, Uday and Qusay, were potentially worse.

While Uday and Qusay rampaged and raped their way through Iraq, Saddam was committing his own atrocities: He boasted about his weapons of mass destruction which he wouldn’t hesitate to use.  He demonstrated his bloodthirst by invading, looting, and annexing neighboring Kuwait in 1990-91.  

His hitlerian ambitions were ultimately and soundly repulsed in Operation Desert Shield, a war waged by coalition forces from 34 nations led by the United States.  

He subsequently, repeatedly defied 16 U.N. Security Council resolutions demanding, among other things, he destroy his WMDs and permit U.N. inspectors to verify their destruction.

In another nutshell, Saddam Hussein was a treacherous despot and represented not only a serious danger to the Mideast but to America and the world in general.  And, at the time, most Democrats concurred in that estimation as well as in the pressing need to take military action to remove him and the threat he posed with his devastating weaponry. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=37768.)