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Originally Posted by Environment Man
Well the mission DID change once the WMD issue was off the table.
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Which was a bullshit
LIE to begin with. They only changed the mission to try to cover their collective ass.
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Al qaeda, insurgents and Iran are still fighting so Bush probably became too ambitious in attempting to nation build.
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Al Qaeda represents only a small part of it. And the insurgents who are primarily Sunni will never be happy since Bush gave the Shia political power.
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But it was and is the right thing to do.
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It was an idiotic thing to do. Which is why guys like General Zimmi thought it was the very wrong thing to do.
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We could not just pull out and leave the shia and kurds to the mercy of the sunnis.
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LOL, you mean after supporting Saddam for over ten years while he killed them?
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We need a base in the Middle East anyway since the Saudis kicked us out. We will be in Iraq forever. Get used to it.
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No you will be in Iraq forever. US military personal will continue to die and at a cost of around 100 billion dollars of year. You get used to it.