ONE YEAR AFTER - The Failure of a Unilateral War

POLITICS: ONE YEAR AFTER - The Failure of a Unilateral War

One year after the war in Iraq began, the newest possession of the United States has been made into the newest hotbed of terrorism. This New York Times editorial outlines where the country stands today and the challenges that still remain. Despite the constant efforts to paint the picture of a budding democracy and a Pax Americana of flowers and happiness, the new Iraq is chaotic and ill-prepared for the handover of power to the hand-picked governing council.

Worldwide protests today aim to hold the administration accountable for its actions. We were told that the removal of Saddam Hussein was necessary to protect the U.S. and its allies from weapons of mass destruction. Now, when George W. Bush and his "Mayberry Machiavelli" harangue hired crowds about the great victory of Iraq, these weapons are seldom mentioned. Why? Because their own inspectors and experts have testified that they aren't there, and likely never were.

The American voters are all that can bring our nation back from the brink. Send George W. Bush and his hired corporate lackeys out to pasture, and start the process of repairing our credibility with the rest of the planet. Send them back to the ranch--before it's too late.

Unfortunately, John Kerry and the Democrats are not the answer to our problems.

So what you are saying is?

*nod*
welcome to another election of "the least worst of"
at least his environmental stance is worth supporting, tho

Actually, I should have directed that more at Kerry. I think he was definitely one of the weaker presidential candidates running - and what he actually stands for still isn't clear to me. I liked Edwards. I just think that Bush is going to win again this year.

John Kerry is running on a "but I'm not Bush" campaign.. and you know what? It'll work on me.

Risk is a great game

GeeDub and Karl Rove's "Reality Distortion Field" makes Steve Jobs', look like it's got whiskey-dick.

I'm voting for Mickey Mouse again.

Maybe this time he will win.

Shouldn't the title of this thread be different? Does anyone here think that if our European allies had been more willing to join in that terrorism wouldn't be taking place in Iraq right now?

Are you kidding?!! The last thing the terrorists want to see in Iraq is any form of stable non-Islamic government. We will continue to see this sort violence as long as that is either a.) a possibility, or b.) a reality. Why would it matter if European countries had been 100% behind the U.S. effort?

Read my statement again. Then, read yours... we're saying the same thing.

Now I'm probably gonna get chewed for this, but I'll take "not the answer to" our problems over "a storied tradition of exacerbating" our problems any day.

Total World attendance at these rallies failed to rival NASCAR participation this weekend. Undeterred, the Reinstall Saddam forces marched on to support terror and tyranny.

Yawn.

Luckily, the attendance of the rallies didn't reflect people opinions about the war, it just reflects the fact that people have realized that nobody cares what they ´mean, least of all Bush..
i didn't participate.
i'm still against the war.
I'm sure you could find numerous other like me here on the board..

"Reinstall Saddam forces." Cute. Is Ann Coulter ghost-writing for you now?

Hmmm...yeah. My reading comprehension after a full day of drinking isn't too hot. Actually, I'm amazed that I actually made sense in that post.

trog,

Silly Rabbit! If you had any connection to the blogsphere worth mentioning, you'd have seen that I was channeling Lileks!
http://www.lileks.com/bleats/archive/04/0304/032204.html

He talks further about the failure and vacuity of multilateral stupidity. Read it if you dare.

Wow man, that's deep. Apparently Coulter *is* ghost-writing for you.

You're absolutely correct, I have no connection to the "blogosphere." Nor do I want to. I don't know why you expect me to put any weight on the opinions of annonymous windbags on the internet.

[Edited on Mar 23, 2004 by troglodyte]

Ah, but you see theres the beauty of it. Because you guys are only alloted one original thought a day, by simply reading you, we can skip all the other angry white guys' vanity pieces.

Ask Saddam how badly the war failed.

Why am I getting a distinctly "Comic Book Guy" vibe here?

And people wondered why I said "Fuck the Blogosphere!" in a group discussion.

"I'm on Blogger.com, hear me roar!"

*sigh*

"Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land."

- George H. W. Bush, in his 1998 memoir A World Transformed



"Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us are happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush? They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are the racists and hatemongers among us -- they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis.

And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. Fuck them."

- Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear





[Edited on Mar 23, 2004 by kurtdiedfayasins]