I guess your region must venerate a catatonic, cud chewing capacity for dissembling along with a talent ofr self delusion equalled only by your belief in your own intelligence and omnipetence. Most people learn that being infantile, indolent, and inspid is not what you want on your resume.

So do us all a favor and post at DU where great minds like yours bray at the moon.

It has become clear that Bush’s real plan in invading Iraq was for oil and to establish a military fortress in the heart of the Middle East. Forget the phony WMDs and any talk of creating a democracy for the downtrodden people of Iraq.

Good to see the Anti-American/Pro-Jihadi Democratic Traitor Leftist Nutbag (TM) make an appearance….

My “exaggeration” was all inclusive for the entire cost. Which, I absolutely guarantee will be trillions.

Let’s not forget about the massive cost of the health care for the physically and mentally maimed veterans. Extrapolate that cost over the number of years that the very last one lives.

Add that to the cost of the continued occupation for untold years.

Trillions. Guaranteed.

We are now in the position to ensure that we have achieved and can secure an honerable retirement from the battlefield with a stong sense of a hard earned victory. One we earned with blood, treasure and sweat.

Whether it was specific to the original goal is immeterial.

No plan survives contact with the enemy after all.

Ha! Yeah. That’s been the goal. Sure. I would say that there are about 15% of the people that still actually believe that. What a thought. Trillions in debt, and countless dead and maimed, so that Iraq could have it’s own state.

Trillions in debt, and countless dead and maimed, so that Iraq could have it’s own state

The war has cost around $800 billion. That’s hardly adding “trillions” to the debt. But you knew that. You wrote it because exaggeration is the only way you can make a point. You can’t argue on an intellectual level so you argue on an emotional level.

I would guess your age at about 14 but that might be a little generous.

ed.

First, they have no air defense or fixed wing close air support capability. In the battle against the Madhi Army in Basra, we provided close air support with fixed wing and rotorcraft. One of the units left in Iraq should be alert facilities and surface to air defense systems.

Second, the Kurds (acyually the PKK) are a problem. Once we are gone, the Turks will act with considerably less restraint.

Third, they have no logistics/mobility assets. These would be easier to develop than fighter and rotorcraft operators, but again we need to get them started.

Bush continues to “secretly” negotiate with Prime Minister Maliki. Senator Casey PA-D) spoke from the senate floor recently in asking that Bush allow Congressional approval of any deal being proposed. Bush and his cronies have been telling the American people and Congress to go to hell for the last seven years by operating a secret and contemptuous administration that refuses to be restrained by law and public opinion – nowhere is this more evident than with the secret negotiations with Iraq. Why doesn’t our congress have any say in any long term agreements with Iraq? Why won’t disclose the plan to the American people?

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Bush’s plan to steal as much Iraqi oil as possible -

Bush and the oil companies put together a sweetheart deal that would have given them exclusive rights on most of Iraq’s oil. It looked like a done deal as contracts looked imminent. However, yesterday, Iraq told Bush and the competing oil companies to go to hell when Iraq’s Oil Minister; Hussein al-Shahristani, told a press briefing:
“We did not finalise any agreement with them because they refused to offer consultancy based on fees as they wanted a share of the oil. Iraq will not enter into production-sharing contracts with any energy major, while service arrangements for overseas firms would require locals partners. We think there is no need to share Iraq’s oil with anybody.”

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Bush’s plan to make Iraq a “client state” -

Some of the details have been made public (Iraq informs their people and both the prime minister and their parliament must approve the deal) which has created quite a controversy as the Iraqi people, clerics and Government representatives are uniting in opposition to any “agreement” that strips them of their national sovereignty - God bless them! Not to be deterred, Bush issued a threat, essentially blackmail in the amount of $50 billion dollars, to pressure Iraq into accepting his terms.

The Iraqis are reasonable in objecting to Bush’s demand for 58 military bases. Iraq would become a client state instead of a sovereign state. And the Iraqis know their country would be used by the US to launch covert military operations in both Iran and Syria and they would be pulled into the coming US/Israeli war against Iran.

Bush’s rush to get the deal done may be part of a plan to attack Iran. According to press reports; the Bush administration is seeking the “power to determine if a hostile act from another country is aggression against Iraq.” Ali al Adeeb, a leading member of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s Dawa party, confirmed that “the Americans insist that is they who define what is an aggression on Iraq and what is democracy inside Iraq.”

This language could allow the U.S. to brand Iran as an enemy of Iraq and attack Iran in the name of defending Iraq. The Washington Post explains that the administration is seeking “the prerogative for U.S. forces to conduct operations without the approval of Iraq.

A spokesman for Muqtada al-Sadr voiced the growing resentment in Iraq in stating that “The agreement must be rejected because it is synonymous with humiliation and disgrace.” Jalal al-Din al-Saghir from the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq called the US proposals “more abominable than the occupation. Now we are being asked to sign for our own occupation.”

The lame duck Bush should stop negotiating in secret. I am certain the vast majority of Americans wants out of Iraq and do not want to build an empire – from the pay checks of the disappearing middle class. Don’t expect Bush to allow Iraq to become a sovereign state. He will fight this tooth and nail. Bush should be placed in country club prison for the remainder of his term to protect us and the world from his diabolical ambitions.

“It has become clear that Bush’s real plan in invading Iraq was for oil…”

Yeah - clear as mud. It’s only clear to those who choose to blind themselves to reality.

ed.