Haven't Bush learnt the lessons of attacking Iraq and now planning to attack Iran?

Answer 1

No, he will never learn unless he sends his twin daughters to fight too.....................

Answer 2

Pray tell: WHAT exactly are the "lessons learnt" from the US in Iraq?

The only ones I gather (from the various media reports) are:

1. Ordinary Iraqis no longer need to live under tyranny
2. Ordinary Iraqis can now shape a more meaningful future for themselves and the country
3. US-Iraq need to do more militarily (more US troops) to eliminate the scourge of terrorist activities sponsored by Iran/Syria
4. US and other Western powers must exert more pressure (diplomatic, economic and military) on Iran-Syria to stop interfering in Iraqi affairs.

Whether Iran gets bombed or not depends on how they respond to UN demands for cessation of nuclear enrichment activity. So far, no good.

Answer 3

Iran is actually been the whole reason for us going into Iraq. It's about time. We were trying to keep the guys from Iran out of Iraq and taking over.

Answer 4

If Bush don't attack now, Iran later will be worst than Iraq. Whoever the next president , he or she must keep pressuring Iran.

Answer 5

I certainly hope so. By taking the war to the enemy, the islamofascists have not been able to mount an attack on the United States since 9/11. Sitting idly by and waiting for Iran to nuke the U.S. is simply idiotic. Thank God for President Bush.

Answer 6

We invaded Iraq not because Saddam was strong and an immediate threat but rather he was weak, problematic and control of Iraq and it’s resources would be strategically advantageous.
The tactical reasons are obvious. The Oil and Iraq’s strategic location from the stand point of military bases in order to control oil resources in the entire region.
The political motives are more complex.
Bush Junior and his cabinet for the most part objected to Bush senior leaving Sadam in power after the first Gulf war.
Sanctions started by Bush Sr. and carried on by two terms in office by Clinton had left Iraq in a terrible state in which corrupt government continued to prosper and carry out excesses against any that would oppose them, all the while at the expense of the people who perished to the tune of 1.5 million or more( mostly children) due primarily to lack of proper nutrition , lack of potable water, and lack of proper Medical attention all of which Saddam was able to blame on the West’s policy of Sanctions.
The motivation for them to carry out the invasion when they did and the way that they did was 9/11.
“Make hay while the sun shines”
Prior to 9/11 another major military invasion into Iraq was a hard sell to make to the American people.
In the words of PNAC (the Neo Conservative “ Project for the New American Century” ) an event on the order of Pearl Harbor was needed in order gain the public support required to do so .
So it was not so much because they thought Iraq was responsible for 9/11 but more because 9/11 enabled them to gain the public support they needed to carry out the invasion.
Again it was the OIL and Military bases they were/are ultimately after, WMD and Alkaeda connections were used as tools of propaganda and 9/11 served to justify and bolster the propaganda . IMHO The Administration felt confident it would be easy enough to find a couple of Al Kaeda members in the general population and enough WMD bits and pieces scattered about to back up their rhetoric once they demonstrated to the world that a thriving and secure Iraq was setting an outstanding model of Democracy in the Mid East.

Considering what actually developed out of all this the only honorable course of action left is that of reconciliation, reconstruction, and repairing the public security as best we can without overtly taking sides or trying to micro manage a Civil War.
IMO Unfortunately Iraqi’s have been left with little alternative but to fight it out till it burns out and some power emerges that restores public security.
This is not a solution but rather a situation that has arisen out of circumstance.
Plans of continuing on with overt demands for Private US oil exploitation, political manipulation and usury as a Military base of operations to expand the war on into Iran and Syria have been dashed by shear ineptitude, dishonesty and deceit carried out by the Administration.
IMO The most we can ask of the people of Iraq at this juncture is a reasonable guarantee that they will not engage in all the terrible untrue things we accused them of engaging in as a premise to blow their infrastructure and public security to smithereens in the first place.

Answer 7

Sounds like you "havent learnt" to read and write. You must be one of those that Bush refers to in his "No Child Left Behind" legislation.

Answer 8

In my opinion, I am so tired of what is happening in Iraq and I agree with your question and info. The words speak of itself.

Answer 9

he is a real slow learner.