Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money

On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 12:38:23 -0500, Cryptoengineer
<petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

On 1/13/2025 11:17 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On 12 Jan 2025 17:01:34 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
 

Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net> wrote:

Thanks to your buddy GWB.  It wasn't necessary or required to invade
Iraq over some made up nuclear danger, but you were cheering him on.

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I'd blame Chaney and Rumsfeld much more, even though GWB really was very
enthusiastic about it.  It confused the hell out of the generals and the
intelligence community, all of whom thought we were fighting Bin Laden
when they all had to do a complete turnaround and start fighting our ally.
It confused Saddam Hussein too, who thought the Americans were his ally
until the bombs actually started dropping.

 
But ... but ... but ... the Shrub /had/ to remove the blot on the
family eschuteon from his father's failure to remove Saddam in the
early 90s.
 
His good buddies, the Republicans, told him so.

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He also claimed that Saddam was behind a failed
assassination attempt on his father ("He tried to
kill my Daddy", iirc), which made it personal for
him.
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Iraq War 2 was an unjustified war of aggression, and
a shame on the US.

Still, you have to admit that the American Soldiers involved did one
heck of job of aggression. It was so effective that, when Obama
followed the Shrub plan for withdrawal ... ISIS popped up.

--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"