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What bothers me about Iraq

What bothers me about Iraq

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by: Retired_Engineer Active Indicator LED Icon 13 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Jun 23, '14 1:17pm  
The thing that bothers me about Iraq is that Obama and others in DC thought that the Iraqi people would turn to peace and embrace democracy.  That shows complete ignorance about their culture and history.I breathed a huge sigh of relief when we finally removed our troops from there.  Now, Obama is sending up to 300 soldiers to RETRAIN Iraqis.  Obama has passed ignorance and gone straight to stupidity!  We spent YEARS training Iraqis and that didn't work.  Sending 300 "instructors" will only put their lives in danger and will accomplish nothing.  All training does is take an average Iraqi and turn him into a soldier.  A soldier that can change his loyalty and affiliation AND NEW SKILLS at will.American soldiers should not be in Iraq or Afghanistan.  Afghanistan has a veil of democracy but it is very corrupt and is still primarily a tribal controlled country.  The billions of $ we give them goes into the pockets of politicians and to the very people that we are fighting. 4951
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justanirishgirl Active Indicator LED Icon 10
~ 9 years ago   Jun 23, '14 1:35pm  
agreed- 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Jun 23, '14 1:44pm  
The poll, the findings of which were released Saturday, show former President Bill Clinton has the highest favorability of all living former and current U.S. presidents, with 64 percent favorable opinion and 34 percent unfavorable.Next up was the senior George Bush with a 63 percent favorable opinion and 31 percent unfavorable opinion. The younger Bush had 53 percent favorable and 44 percent unfavorable, Jimmy Carter was at 52 percent favorable and 32 percent unfavorable and finally Obama had 47 percent favorable and 52 percent unfavorable.Obama was the only president that had a more unfavorable than favorable opinion.Gallup interviewed 1,027 adults in the United States between June 5 and 8 for the poll. There was a 4 percent margin of error. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Jun 23, '14 1:44pm  

if they hadn't decided they had big balls, we wouldn't be in this situation now. *******es!! 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Jun 23, '14 1:51pm  
we wouldn't be in this situation now
 
@ProblemAgain: Probably, however we are here, and it is getting worse now.
You just have more forward from where you are.We don't seem to be, nor does the middle east either. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Jun 23, '14 2:34pm  
@Retired EngineerYou said it perfectly!  You are never going to be able to help the Iraqis!  I thought the same exact thing when I read that Obama is going to send 300 soldiers there.  You are putting their lives in danger!   I would be so upset if that was my son/daughter there!  They are going to be sitting ducks! 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Jun 23, '14 2:37pm  
"I breathed a huge sigh of relief when we finally removed our troops from there."That's what caused the current problems.  The "people in Washington" who originally started the action in Iraq didn't have the straw man misconceptions you claim.  That's why W Bush was negotiating to keep troops in Iraq after the general withdrawal. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Jun 23, '14 2:46pm  
My Husband watched this on You tube today..........as did I. Sit back and take 41 minutes to watch this you tube. Pretty freaking scary. Coincidence---I think NOT. @retiredengineer would you be so kind as to hyperthingy the link? Hmppfff. Link below not going to the actual You tube video It's the one on the top left with Isaiha 9:10 with Pastor Jimmy Evans.http://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=the+harbinger+by+jonathan+cahn&ei=UTF-8&hspart=att&hsimp=yhs-att_001&t 4951
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Retired_Engineer Active Indicator LED Icon 13 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Jun 23, '14 3:11pm  
"I breathed a huge sigh of relief when we finally removed our troops from there."That's what caused the current problems.  The "people in Washington" who originally started the action in Iraq didn't have the straw man misconceptions you claim.  That's why W Bush was negotiating to keep troops in Iraq after the general withdrawal.
 
@fcabanski:  So you think we should still have troops in Iraq?!?
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Retired_Engineer Active Indicator LED Icon 13 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Jun 23, '14 3:14pm  
My Husband watched this on You tube today..........as did I. Sit back and take 41 minutes to watch this you tube. Pretty freaking scary. Coincidence---I think NOT. @retiredengineer would you be so kind as to hyperthingy the link? Hmppfff. Link below not going to the actual You tube video It's the one on the top left with Isaiha 9:10 with Pastor Jimmy Evans.http://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=the+harbinger+by+jonathan+cahn&ei=UTF-8&hspart=att&hsimp=yhs-att_001&t
 
@cgm10sne1:   This one?


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cgm10sne1 Active Indicator LED Icon 10
~ 9 years ago   Jun 23, '14 3:17pm  
Yes! Thank you @retired_engineer 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Jun 23, '14 3:39pm  
Might as well let Obama go down in flames 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Jun 23, '14 3:46pm  
[quote-tag-mismatch][quote-tag-mismatch]viet nam taught us you can't save a country that won't save itself, a
country where corruption is more important than patriotism. and after
23 billion dollars spent training and arming the iraqi military, as soon
as a bunch of guys in suvs and pickups show up, the military drops
their weapons, abandons their tanks, changes into civvies and runs for
home. another example...syria....all the voices calling for us to arm
the rebels fighting al-assad...which rebels?  and what keeps the rebels
you do arm from passing those arms onto groups you don't want armed.
al-assad may be a bad guy but is he a bad guy like hussein was, keeping a
country from descending into total chaos?
oh and we appear to have armed the isis group recently...since we DID arm the iraqis
 
Beirut (AFP) - Jihadists
fighting in Syria's war put to use for the first time on Sunday
American-made Humvees that they seized during a lightning offensive in
Iraq this month, a monitor said.
The Islamic State of Iraq and
the Levant, or ISIL, used the armoured vehicles to capture the villages
of Eksar and Maalal in Aleppo province, which borders Turkey, said the
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
It came after heavy fighting
against the Islamic Front and its Al-Qaeda-affiliated ally, the Al-Nusra
Front, said the Observatory, a Britain-based group that gets its
information from a network of sources on the ground.i
thought an interview of marco rubio sunday morning was a good
illustration of our country politically right now. he was carrying on
about president obama and what obama was or was not doing in iraq and
syria. when o'donnell asked him what he would do, he tried to sidestep
the question and when pressed with the same question, he stuttered
stammered and finally said we should cut off the flow of arms tho he didn't have any steps to recommend to do that.  now
that's a fine goal for someone whose party wants more weapons poured in
for the rebels in syria. so what we have is people who don't know what
to do but just know the other guys are doing it wrong
 
i'll take a clue for 200 alex

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~ 9 years ago   Jun 23, '14 4:42pm  
@Retired EngineerYou said it perfectly!  You are never going to be able to help the Iraqis!  I thought the same exact thing when I read that Obama is going to send 300 soldiers there.  You are putting their lives in danger!   I would be so upset if that was my son/daughter there!  They are going to be sitting ducks!
 
@calliecat: Good thing early Americans actually believed slavery could be ended. Lest we forget 750,000 Americans died in the civil war.
 
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~ 9 years ago   Jun 23, '14 4:44pm  

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>> "I breathed a huge sigh of relief when we finally removed our troops from there."That's what caused the current problems.  The "people in Washington" who originally started the action in Iraq didn't have the straw man misconceptions you claim.  That's why W Bush was negotiating to keep troops in Iraq after the general withdrawal.
 
@fcabanski:  So you think we should still have troops in Iraq?!?
 
@Retired_Engineer: what about Germany? Japan? Italy?
 
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Retired_Engineer Active Indicator LED Icon 13 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Jun 23, '14 6:33pm  

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>> "I breathed a huge sigh of relief when we finally removed our troops from there."That's what caused the current problems.  The "people in Washington" who originally started the action in Iraq didn't have the straw man misconceptions you claim.  That's why W Bush was negotiating to keep troops in Iraq after the general withdrawal.
 
@fcabanski:  So you think we should still have troops in Iraq?!?
 
@Retired_Engineer: what about Germany? Japan? Italy?
 
 
@rundmv: So you compare them to Iraq and Afghanistan?!?   Emoticon  Come back when you have a cohesive thought.
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