Could it be kinda like Texas in years ahead?
Do you think the plan could work after all?
2007-11-01 07:09:31 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
To all the responses about WMDs - I realize that there aren't any and that was a big part of the premise for going in - if we did find them, wouldn't we be in the same place we are now?
What the plan has been was to create a place better than life under Saddam - not too hard you would think. A place where democracy could potentially happen and by kinda like Texas I mean with a dry climate and oil and a group of people living relatively peacefully.
Maybe I'm totally wrong - those are all barbarians, etc. but I really don't know at this point.
2007-11-01 09:07:01 · update #1
I had a chance encounter with Brig. Gen. Samir A. Hassan at the Reagan airport in Washington DC.
He is an Orthopedic surgeon and the Surgeon General of Iraq.
He had just returned from a news conference at the Pentagon.
He told me that he had his first chance to experience with the American news media and said that they are "100% incorrect".
The surge has worked and the country is well on it's way to relative prosperity.
He said he doubts that there is a place on Earth as bad as the US media says Iraq is.
2007-11-01 07:18:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What you are saying is nonsensical - Iraq is not intended to be like Texas ie. a nice place to live - they want to make it into an area where the locals slave away for nothing while they control the oil supply and American oil companies and all the hangers on make a buck.
Welcome to the real World.
2007-11-01 14:22:23 · answer #2 · answered by airmonkey1001 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Too late. They had nothing to do with 9/11 and they had no WMD's. They did not embrace us as benevolent liberators. They did not embrace democracy in any meaningful way. Oil has not even approached the cost of securing Iraq, let alone reconstructing it.
2007-11-01 14:16:29 · answer #3 · answered by jehen 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Thats impossible .
Saddam openly told the world that the United States could oversee inspectors looking for evidence of WMD's long before the invasion .
Bush had a one track mind and that was the invasion of the Middle east .
2007-11-01 14:15:16 · answer #4 · answered by TroubleMaker 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Oh, you mean the weapons were found? Where? Rumsfeld said they knew exactly where the weapons were.
Bush basically said Saddam was sitting on an Wile E. Coyote acme-style pile of nukes underneath his palace. Where were the weapons?
2007-11-01 14:30:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The invasion/occupation of Iraq was put in place to provide the U.S with strategic military positioning in the Middle East. Right or wrong is irrelevant.
2007-11-01 14:13:04 · answer #6 · answered by gone 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Truth is a lie told 1000 times. Does it really matter at this point in our history? Some things become impossible to prove if dilluted enough with politicking
2007-11-01 14:15:24 · answer #7 · answered by TexasTrev38 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Hard to say. If the Army piled a stack of WMD in the middle of Baghdad as proof the press would not cover it and the anti-war types would claim the US planted it. The war will not be won in the press regardless of what happens.
2007-11-01 14:14:41 · answer #8 · answered by davidmi711 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
What do you mean "kinda like texas" I live in tx and there is no realtion with iraq here.
2007-11-01 14:16:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
If bush is right about Iraq, then all americans should be
glad he was president for 8 years as he will have saved
US from getting bombed over here. And, if not, it still
was worth the effort as we're still here and no war is happening on our soil. They do mean business when
they say they want to wipe US and Israel off the map.
2007-11-01 14:14:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 5⤋