Jim Morin for March 22, 2015

The majority of the Muslims of Iraq are Shia Muslims, and they would want their friends of Iran to stay. After all, what have we actually done for them excep cause them untold misery?

Just ignore ConserveGov, the troll, and do not respond to him.

Why didn’t anyone in our government realize when we the US invaded and overthrew their Suni leader, allowing the Shiite majority to take power, it would be helping Iran?

All countries, religions and companies operate in their own self interest. The trick is in finding ways they can constructively cooperate without killing each other.

Our type of freedom is good for us. It does not seem that the middle east much cares for no dress code and individuality. Why do we want to force our view on them? It has not worked before, so why do we not work on perfecting our strange view of the world? We have a long way to go- look at the state of our politics and culture- a long way to go

Excellent comments, all of them.

“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Whether FDR said it or not doesn’t matter. The veracity cannot be credibly denied.

IAI

“Will anything save us from the ill-informed and naive? The shites and sunni’s have been hating each other since 661 A.D. and people still think it is America’s fault. As the world burns they attack the two countries that celebrate individuality and freedom.”-Ya know, logic, you could have saved everyone a LOT of trouble if you had just mentioned this to The Decider and The Dick before we invaded Iraq.

I have no problem with your factual statement about the hatred between the sunnis and the shites, no problem at all. But I do not think that Iraq has any current intentions of attacking either Israel or the US. In order to attack Israel they would have to go through Jordan. And I somehow think the Jordanians might just object to such an invasion, even possibly to the extent of asking even Israel for help in repelling such an invasion. I know this sounds impossible, but in the MIddle East nothing is truly impossible!

As for attacking the US on the other side of the world, well you can logically see the problems with that scenario, can you not?

In fact, most of the Iraquis are shite Muslims, and are now in a fight with the ISIS types, who do not seem to represent even the sunnis, but a far more fundamentalist and extreme version of the Muslim religion, which most Muslims of any persuasion are against. Personally, I think that eventually they will be defeated, but hopefully not by us, but by local more moderate Muslims, who we should at least support with continued air support and military supplies and advice. But as little of the blood of our precious youth as is absolutely necessary!!

“If you live in Texas, it probably does. Saudi Arabia is on our side, by the way.”-Saudis are on “our” side? Not the ones who committed the 9/11 attacks.Not the ones who were immediately hustled out of the country before they could be interviewed by the FBI or CIA.

Well, yeah, they are close personal friends and business partners with the Bushes and cozy with our patriotic multinational oil corporations, but on our side?

Hard to see much evidence.

But you can dissent without fear of being murdered. Or you could move to Oklahoma.

Those are not candid pics of Afghan Women on the streets of Kabul Churchy….they are FASHION ads. Slightly staged. ( Oh, they date back to before the Soviet invasion, too. )

As for Bush’s remarks, then why did he okay the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq only a year later?

‘Which one had a firmer grasp of reality?’

The one who invaded Iraq?

The one who signed an agreement to withdraw? (I don’t think this was confirmed by the Senate, but honestly do not remember.)

Iraq has been in Iran since the day the Us invaded Iraq. We opened the door for them. What makes you think they will leave?

Bush a grasp on reality WMD, the war will cost us nothing, mission accomplished and on and on.The reality of why we pulled all our troops out of Iraq is that Nouri al-Maliki government wanted the right to hold, arrest, and bring to Iraq courts American troops. Obama refused. We had to pull our troops out. Would you have agreed to subjugate our troops to the Iraq judicial system?

Nouri al-Maliki has ties and is friendly to Iran. Nouri al-Maliki became president of Iraq while Bush was president and Bush Fully support Nouri al-Maliki.

President Bush reiterated his support of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al -Maliki on Wednesday in plain language.

“Prime Minister Maliki is a good guy, good man with a difficult job and I support him,” Bush told a crowd at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention on Wednesday. “And its not up to the politicians in Washington D.C. to say whether he will remain in his position. It is up to the Iraqi people, who now live in a democracy and not a dictatorship.”

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2007/08/bush-i-support/

Saudi Arabia is on our side because they have most of the easily gotten at oil in the world. And therefore, the big oil companies want them on our side, and the US government which is controlled by that Big Oil money, also then wants the Saudis on our side!

The people of either political persuasion may not like that, but that is the way it is!!

@churchillwasright

We shouldn’t have supported Maliki in the first place let alone invade Iraq with the little planning for the future which we did. So Obama was urge to cut ties with Maliki earlier that would have meant pulling out our troops. Either way it is the same conclusion.

We opened the door for Maliki and Iran and I can tell you that it wasn’t Obama that did it. Not that I am a big support of Obama but I hate revisionist.

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