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The tragedy of the U.S. ‘victory’ in Iraq
By Peter Van Buren WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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englisc aspyrgend
Classic US strategy.
President Kennedy said "there is only one thing worse than being the enemy of the USA, and that is being their friend".
1glenn
I am perpetually reminded of how Dick Cheney, the Vice President under Bush, destroyed the CIA spy network dedicated to tracking weapons of mass destruction. They would not support his view that Iraq needed to be invaded because, he claimed, they were pursuing nuclear weapons, and the CIA said they were not.
katsu78
The current POTUS is continuing that blinkered tradition.
And his fanatics beg for a war with North Korea or Iran that would be just as pointless and destructive to America as the Iraq War.
ozziedesigner
Victory ? Yeah right....
Strangerland
Republicans - formerly the party of fiscal responsibility.
MASSWIPE
"Victory ? Yeah right...."
Read the article, or actually just read the title. The word "victory" is in quotation marks for a reason. I wish more people would be more openly critical of then Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro for having so wholeheartedly and enthusiastically supported America's invasion of Iraq in March 2003, 15 years ago next month. The counterargument is that foreign oil-reliant Japan was really in no position to oppose America, given the flak Japan had taken 12 years earlier in 1991 for not contributing soldiers to the multinational coalition that fought in the first Persian Gulf War against Iraq.
But still, I found the chumminess and camaraderie between Koizumi and George W. Bush to be absolutely embarrassing and cringeworthy. I hope that at least some Japanese citizens felt the same way.