We did not unleash them. They chose to fight us[/QUOTE)
I must have missed the Iraqi attack on America. When was this?
We were the approved occupying power. They instituted the violence against us.
Approved by whom, the puppet government we set up?
We were not fighting a counterinsurgency, even though one developed. We corrected that mistake and protected the population. This stopped the civil war. Absolutely we take credit for stopping it
.
Figures we would take credit for something we started. All part of our justification for killing for oil, so we can feel good about ourselves!
Were we suppressing the opposition with a secret police, torture and murder? I don't think so.
**** that ****, we have bombs and tanks to do our killing for us!
Yes. We could have anticipated it better. We disbanded the Army as it was a force of Sunni power, which had to be broken for true democracy to form
.
What true democracy? Is a corrupt puppet government we set up and have to protect from its own people what you call a democracy?
By invading and occupying a country that was not a threat to us. That brought in people from all over the region that hate us and the Iraqis, including most of the suicide bombers who were Saudi. Where were the insurgents before our invasion?
I can tell right from wrong by myself, thanks.
Yes, you are a reprobate for not merely assuming the worst on our part, but for talking about it in ways that assigns blame to us for things we are not to blame for, like killing tens of thousands of Iraqis.
Look if it makes you feel better to pretend that we invaded Iraq for any and every reason other than our own self-interest in the world's largest remaining oil reserves, knock yourself out. Just don't expect the majority of the country to buy it any longer. The cat is already out of the bag.
