IN THE COMMENTS: Geoffrey Firmin said:
Isn't that use of "refuted" pretty hilarious? I thought that word used to mean "proved false" rather than "denied."They were trying to think of "repudiated," and they got as far as "refudiated," realized therein lies mockery, and retreated to "refuted."
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Isn't that use of "refuted" pretty hilarious? I thought that word used to mean "proved false" rather than "denied".
Give him a break, it's hard to lie forever.
I think that's crap. Should have never gone in.
Vicki
The problem with lying never changes:
You've got to keep the story straight.
As the world turns. Dems hated Bush's evil fraudulent Iraq war that snagged the oil fields and gave us a tactical base from which to fight our Iranian enemy.
But with the coming surrender in Afghanistan being announced, the Obama Gang also has to brag about their toughness in the war in Iraq.
You know, that Iranian enemy is the reason.
Obama is awesome.
I'm confused. Wasn't the reason for the US invasion of Iraq to repel the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait?
Or are you talking about the resumption of military action that deposed Saddam Hussein and his government? If so, I thought the reason for that was Saddam's continued refusal to abide by the terms of the cease-fire that allowed him to remain in power after the first invasion.
I have no doubt that the war against al-Qaeda was part of the motivation, but did the Bush adminstration cite it as a casus belli? I don't think so
Vicky dear,
We were "in;" there was only one war with 10-year unilateral cease-fire.
Well, since the surge worked and since Al Qaeda was gutted there and discredited in the Islamic world there, it's nice to see our intellectual betters in the Democrat Party finally catching up with reality.
PS Only slightly OT:
Off Drudge, "demonstrators" invade the US Embassy grounds. "Both the U.S. and France accused Syrian security forces of being too slow to respond to the attacks."
IIRC, this is how it started in Teheran 32 years ago. Can we start calling him "Jimmy" Obama now?
Oh baby, that will mess up the talking points.
Let me see, trad, have we actually gotten any oil out of those oil fields we snagged? Uh, no!
We have gotten absolutely nothing out of that war.
Hager dear, spell it right and get your info right
Vicki
We have gotten absolutely nothing out of that war.
Not true at all. Our NCO and junior officer ranks are full of combat veterans with real-world experience. That's hardly "nothing".
The Democrats have always been at war with EastAsia.
When the Democrats lie about so many things, it's hard for them to keep the lies straight.
Give Panetta a pass. He's just not that bright. In two years, we'll be rid of this bunch and can put the adults back in charge.
Alas Hagar, I think Vicki maybe was in 5th grade when we first went in.
She's unaware of the daily violations by Saddam Hussein of the no-fly zone. Silly rules. Silly UN.
She doesn't know about the camp in Northern Iaq. Doesn't care about the payments to the suicide bomber's families, thinks the plane fuselage in the Baghdad palace grounds was for the grandkids to play in, and on and on ...
Probably thinks the plastic shredder was for recycling, too.
Iraq being green and all that.
It will be interesting to see how Panetta does. I have my doubts, seeing him mainly as a closer / hatchet man to gut the military.
2012. Come quickly.
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Let's not get carried away. He said Al Qaeda attacked the U.S. on 9/11, and that we've been fighting because of that. I didn't hear him link Iraq to 9/11 or Al Qaeda. Instead he only linked the Iraq invasion to 9/11, which I think is undisputed (no 9/11, no invasion or regime change).
I have no doubt that the war against al-Qaeda was part of the motivation, but did the Bush adminstration cite it as a casus belli? I don't think so
Bush advanced the theory that Iraq would provide AQ with chemical, biological, and possibly nuclear weapons. This was definitely part of the casus belli for regime change.
victoria said...
Let me see, trad, have we actually gotten any oil out of those oil fields we snagged? Uh, no!
Have We?
No, dear, the Iraqi people have.
And if We had gotten any oil out of there, you and the rest of the Lefties would be screaming about American Imperialism.
victoria,
We have gotten absolutely nothing out of that war.
Sit down, Dearie, I don't think war is your strong suit.
NOW they tell us that the invasion of Iraq was AOK? TG and all those you-tube vids are right. Obama is AWESOME!"
Depends a bit on how you define "al Qaeda."
If it is just Osama bin Laden's operation, then I think other, unsung, agencies of our Gov't stifled that by cutting off their access to financial networks.
If it is "radical Islam" in general, then I think we got a lot out of this war by removing Saddam and planting the beginnings of a democratic republic in their midst. The "Arab Spring," such as it is, would not have happened woithout the Iraq war(s). And that is not over yet; the Assad regime in Syria is fighting for its life - though that is not getting much coverage, for some reason - and even in Iran, which is our main remaining enemy, there are constant rumbles of unrest - which also is not getting much coverage, for some reason.
Geoffrey, I think they meant "refuted." They know what it means.
"Dems hated Bush's evil fraudulent Iraq war that snagged the oil fields and gave us a tactical base from which to fight our Iranian enemy."
Actually, any American who was intellectually honest and opposed to our engaging in baseless and criminal wars of aggression hated Bush's fraudulent invasion of Iraq, not just Democrats--and many Dems in Congress supported it, to their everlasting discredit.
As to "our Iranian enemy," they are so only because we choose to make and keep them so, (in the same way we chose to make Castro's Cuba our enemy, to no good purpose at all).
This is becoming too stupid to counter. I mean, now Cookie is on the case:
No need to go any further - we've hit the bottom of dumb.
"Our NCO and junior officer ranks are full of combat veterans with real-world experience."
BFD. We don't need combat ready soldiers given that we have not fought in any necessary wars since WW II, (and some argue that was unnecessary).
I was not really in favor of invading Iraq, but if we do have to invade someone....
Recall that Saddamn paid..was it $20,000...to the family of anyone who would murder a Jew. For that reason alone, I am happy to see the old fascist dead.
If lefty enviromental types oppose invading Iraq, ask them about the Marsh Arabs and what happened to the ancient wetlands of Iraq.
"Bush advanced the theory that Iraq would provide AQ with chemical, biological, and possibly nuclear weapons. This was definitely part of the casus belli for regime change."
And it was pure bullshit, given that:
A. Saddam had no links with Al Qaeda, and:
B. He had no WMD to provide them even if he had had links with them, which:
C. To repeat: he didn't
Democrats were: a) cynically undermining the country in a time of war in order to regain power, or; b) idiots who didn't understand the issues in Iraq specifically, and the GWOT generally.
I guess they figure "b" is the least embarassing option. After voting for the AUMFI, they claimed it was because they were tricked by the retarded chimp.
In Obama's case, I think it really may be: c) all the above.
BFD. We don't need combat ready soldiers given that we have not fought in any necessary wars since WW II, (and some argue that was unnecessary).
Wonderfully argued, Cook.
Cook, it is nothing short of astonishing that your batting average for truthful content in your comments in this thread is .000
Well, Scott, if we have had not actually had to fight any wars in nearly 70 years--as opposed to choosing to wage wars to impose our political will on the world--why expend our national treasure on training redundant soldiers?
Even George Washington warned against the perils of maintaing standing armies. (Which was not common practice prior to WW II; why must it remain so now?)
Let me see, trad, have we actually gotten any oil out of those oil fields we snagged? Uh, no!
We have gotten absolutely nothing out of that war.
Hey vicki - wasn't your side chanting "NO BLOOD FOR OIL" back in '03? Weren't you accusing Bush of STEALING Iraqi oil? When he didn't - then you blame him for not STEALING Iraqi oil?
Liberal, you have no shame.
I'm wondering if Robert Cook is even an American. Maybe he's an Iranian agent.
why expend our national treasure on training redundant soldiers?
Because others do train soldiers, a concept you seem unable to grasp. The world is what it is, not what you want it to be. I could quote De Re Militari to you, but it wouldn't sink in, so what's the use.
It was not common practice because the Brits did it for the rest of us.
Post WWII and the fall of the Soviet Union, the U.S. is the big kahuna, and it is in our interest to prevent the smaller fish from starting anything that might grow into something.
"Because others do train soldiers, a concept you seem unable to grasp. The world is what it is, not what you want it to be."
Meaning?
Given that we have not actually been really threatened by any other power in over half a century, what is this "world is what it is" you speak of?
(Yes, yes...you'll mention the Soviets, but they were more afraid of us than we of them-because of our bombs, not because of our soldiers--and we were never going to have a shooting war with them. Our post-WWII military buildup has never had a thing to do with facing "the world as it is" and everything to do with enriching arms merchants, enlarging and consolidating the power of the military/industrial/intelligence complex, and imposing our will on the rest of the world.)
"Post WWII and the fall of the Soviet Union, the U.S. is the big kahuna, and it is in our interest to prevent the smaller fish from starting anything that might grow into something."
Instead, we're doing that. How many more wars do we have to start before they all add up to one big WORLD War?
(The Uncredentialed, Crypto Jew)
BFD. We don't need combat ready soldiers given that we have not fought in any necessary wars since WW II, (and some argue that was unnecessary).
But Cookie we couldn’t have saved your beloved USSR had we not fought WWII…Stalin would not have prevailed and where would Social Justice be today, otherwise?
Oh and BTW Cooke ALL wars are “wars of choice.” Just like ALL fights are fights of choice, you CHOSOSE to fight…an aggression takes only one person a conflict takes more than one…so ALL wars are wars of choice…Poland didn’t have to fight back in 1939, just like the Czech’s chose to NOT fight in 1968…doesn’t mean you don’t get occupied, but it does mean there’s no war.
(The Uncredentialed, Crypto Jew)
Given that we have not actually been really threatened by any other power in over half a century, what is this "world is what it is" you speak of?
We ahven’t been threatened since 1776, Cooke…please try another tack.
Hmm so we HAD to go into Iraq
and this sounds eerily like
"Mission Accomplished"
Its
Deja Vu all over again.
Robert Cook wrote:
We don't need combat ready soldiers given that we have not fought in any necessary wars since WW II, (and some argue that was unnecessary).
No war is "necessary" if we and our allies are willing to surrender and die.
Robert Cook seems to be willing. I have a suggestion for his final meal.
Cooke, like many other peaceniks on the far right and far left, doesn't understand that the enemy gets a vote. We will get peace when our enemies decide to give us peace and not a moment before.
Alex,
"I'm wondering if Robert Cook is even an American. Maybe he's an Iranian agent."
I don't think so - they wouldn't make it so obvious.
Well, speaking as a [former] Norwegian, I am very thankful that the Americans felt it "necessary" to fight in WWII; I could only wish that Mr. Roosevelt had figured that out a little sooner, or even much sooner, and perhaps applied a little pressure to ht French and the British to stop Hitler when he first marched into the Rhineland.
And stopping Herr Hitler in 1936 would have involved some "necessary" violence, though not nearly as much as after 1939.
@Vicki: How many al Qaeda nutjobs were attracted to and killed in Iraq by superior force? I know we suffered terrible casualties, but the enemy paid even higher prices due to less favorable defensive fighting conditions. Contrast that with conditions in Afghanistan.
A strategic notion behind Iraq was to draw forth the bastards and kill them in the open. Of course, many on your side resisted demonizing the "freedom fighters."
http://www.regimeofterror.com
Maybe the press shouldn’t have blindly accepted partisan lies from their fellow leftwingers….
Cook, of course, is mad because we won the Cold War and remembers, before Barbarossa, when all the Commies wanted FDR to declare war on Britain and France because Al and Joe were BFFs.
They forget nothing at the Daily Worker.
And being attacked does not constitute a necessary war.
(I know, it wouldn't have happened if we didn't support the Jooos)
Robert Cook said...
"Bush advanced the theory that Iraq would provide AQ with chemical, biological, and possibly nuclear weapons. This was definitely part of the casus belli for regime change."
And it was pure bullshit, given that:
A. Saddam had no links with Al Qaeda, and:
Czech intel says different as does the terrorist training center at Salman Pak
B. He had no WMD to provide them even if he had had links with them, which:
WikiLeaks says otherwise.
C. To repeat: he didn't
To repeat - Wrong!
WV "dummo" (no kidding) Knock yourself out.
We have gotten absolutely nothing out of that war.
Nonsense. We don't have Saddam in the way any longer, we cut back on an open flow of logistical support across Iraq, we cut out a major source of funding for the PLO.
The theory underlying the invasion of Iraq had two parts. The first was the CIA's assertion that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction (mostly poison gas) and those weapons of mass destruction would soon (if they didn't already) include nuclear devices and lethal pathogens. And, some of those weapons could fall into al Qaeda hands via any of a number of pathways, of which actually receiving them from the hands of Saddam was probably the least likely. Regardless of whether Saddam Hussein would be willing to hand over WMD to al Qaeda, it would only take the suborning of a handful of key men in key places to get these weapons into al Qaeda hands.
The second part was a calculated decision to leave our troops in Iraq as a target for al Qaeda attacks. The idea was that we would prefer AQI (al Qaeda in Iraq) to target troops who were trained, armed, and able to fight back, versus possible al Qaeda attacks on unarmed Americans in the United States.
Well, we did find some small stocks of poison gas, no weaponized pathogens, and no nukes. Looks as though George Tenet and Valeri Plame (the analyst responsible for assessing Iraqi WMD) were wrong.
On the other point, Rumsfeld failed to provide adequate doctrine and armored vehicles to protect the troops. We could have lost to AQI, but we won despite Rumsfeld. (Though I can't figure out why Obama is dragging out the end game.) But we won only thanks to General Petraeus and George W. Bush, not to mention troops that are person for person better than any soldiers that have ever served anywhere at any time.
Scott M said...
We have gotten absolutely nothing out of that war.
Not true at all. Our NCO and junior officer ranks are full of combat veterans with real-world experience. That's hardly "nothing".
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Unfortunately, along with the trillions that went to bail out the deregulated Banking and Securities industries and all their poison paper...we also squandered 1 trillion on the Noble Purple-fingered Iraqi Freedom Lovers.
Now forced to make big defense cutbacks to keep the tax cuts for the wealthy....Republicans are saying no more neocon wars of adventure, no more hideously expensive "Hero Boots on The Ground".
That means substantial cuts are coming for the Army and Marines - and a lot of those "combat veterens with real life experience" will be applying that valuable insight, hopefully with some head of the line consideration on job applications - for those ChinaMart positions.
With us forced by economic necessity into a greatly reduced land warfare force - drones, the AF, the Navy, and CIA prevail.
China gets the Iraqi oil contracts.
Karzai's clan gets to be billionaires.
Republicans and Dems combined to bail out "too big to fail" Bankers and Wall Streeters, many who have used those new printed dollars to substantially enrich their pre-2008 positions.
And the people that became IED fodder and who we found were a money pit to deploy....for 8 years lauded as "the hero troops with boots on the ground" - are the losers.
A. Saddam had no links with Al Qaeda, and:
In the immortal words of Dr. Emmett Brown, "You have to learn to think four-dimensionally Marty!"
B. He had no WMD to provide them even if he had had links with them, which:
Once again, just because he didn't have them at the time doesn't mean he couldn't have had them at some point in the future. I thought this was the weak link in the Bush casus belli, too much emphasis on existing capability, not enough emphasis on latent capability.
@C4
None of that glazed-donut screed of yours changes the fact that our core military personal are highly experienced, battle-hardened experts at what they do.
Robert Cook said...
BFD. We don't need combat ready soldiers given that we have not fought in any necessary wars since WW II,
So says someone who has never served in the military.
Your ignorance is staggering.
"...just because he didn't have them at the time doesn't mean he couldn't have had them at some point in the future."
Just because Micronesia isn't a threat to America now doesn't mean that someday they won't one day develop nuclear-powered laser-beam shooting real-life Transformers that will take over the world! Or, that just because the weasle-eyed asshole who lives next door has never threatened or even spoken to you up to now, he won't go fucking berserk tomorrow or next week or next month and try to take out your family!
Why shouldn't we assume every single nation and every single individual outside our own nation or families, respectively, (or even inside our own families) is a deadly threat just waiting to happen, and take preemptive action? Why shouldn't the police arrest every manjack of us on the presumption that eventually, one day we will all break a law or utter a harsh word get into an altercation of some kind with somebody?
Because that's crazy, that's why.
Scott M said...
@C4
None of that glazed-donut screed of yours changes the fact that our core military personal are highly experienced, battle-hardened experts at what they do.
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And many are about to be RIF'd.
(Reduction in Force) - so wish them luck on life after the Army and Marines.
To preserve the "no taxes" Pledge to Grover Norquist, Republicans have agreed to some bigtime gutting at Defense.
That's what you get when you fight a trillion dollar nation building sort of war with no one paying for it over 10 years on presumption "tax cuts" would "grow the economy".
Now the bills are due and the Army and Marines look to be the fall guys.
Lance -
" He had no WMD to provide them even if he had had links with them, which":
Once again, just because he didn't have them at the time doesn't mean he couldn't have had them at some point in the future. I thought this was the weak link in the Bush casus belli, too much emphasis on existing capability, not enough emphasis on latent capability.
The great weak link in endless Neocon wars of prophylaxis - you invade anyone that "COULD" someday have the capacity to "send WMD to Evildoers!!" besides the America is bankrupt thing ---is the sheer number of nations that such an idiot neocon base condition for endless war would involve.
About 15-18 Muslim nations have the capacity to develop WMD and give them to Evildoers!! someday. Or already have WMD. Plus another 15-20 possibly unsavory or unsavory in the future regimes elsewhere (Russia, China, Cuba, Venezuela, Nigeria, S Africa, Burma, Israel, Germany, etc.) passing on weaponry by ideaology or simply to make money.
The Neocon Era of multiple preventative wars for "Freedom Loving" is over. Now we are back to deterrance, which like in the Cold War will rest on, ability to kill lots of enemy - fighters and non-combatants - if attacked.
About 15-18 Muslim nations have the capacity to develop WMD and give them to Evildoers!!
15? Name them.
Just because Micronesia isn't a threat to America now doesn't mean that someday they won't one day develop nuclear-powered laser-beam shooting real-life Transformers that will take over the world!
Reductio ad absurdum. Look it up.
Hussein proved he was both capable and willing to use WMD's. He also proved his willingness to sponsor terrorist attacks, primarily against Israel but also against other nations. That's a far cry from Micronesia.
Cookie...Will you then join me in pushing for Obama's imprisonment for making war under false pretenses?
I agree with you that Obama's attacking Iranian sponsored Al Qaeda in Iraq is is illegal usurpation of power, birth certificate or no birth certificate.
And what is Libya if not attemts to murder the head of State of a foreign country?
Lance said...
About 15-18 Muslim nations have the capacity to develop WMD and give them to Evildoers!!
15? Name them.
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Remember WMD includes poison gas, biowar materials..not just nukes:
The List:
1. Turkey
2. Egypt
3. Morocco
4. Algeria
5. Libya
6. Sudan
7. Malaysia
8. Indonesia
9. Iraq
10. Iran
11. Pakistan
12. Saudi Arabia
13. Bangladesh
14. Tunisia
15. Syria
16. Hezbollah in Lebanon
17. Yemen
18. Albania-Kosovo
19. Khazakstan
20. Azerbijan
21. UAE
6 are nuclear capable, inc Pakistan, oviously.
12 Of them have fielded indigenously developed war gases inc. nerve gases. Most dropped it in the 70s with Nixons NPTs.
8 had developed significant biowar capacity by the 70s, mainly Anthrax but Egypt, Syria, Pakistan, and Turkey had other lethal bugs. All but Iran, Iraq, Pakistan dropped them under pressure, w/Iraq finally caving, in 1995.
So the neocon idea of endless wars and nation building to "prevent the option" of any Muslim nation with capacity to do it - developing and giving WMD to "Evildoers" was a pipe dream to start with. The US does not have the treasure or the will to do that.
So the neocon idea of endless wars and nation building
I would love for you to provide some actual evidence that anyone, that is any single one person, argues in favor of "endless wars"
I'd also like you to provide evidence that said person is a "neocon"
However, I won't hold my breath...
That's what you get when you fight a trillion dollar nation building sort of war with no one paying for it over 10 years on presumption "tax cuts" would "grow the economy".
Um, people indeed did "pay for" the war(s) and tax cuts did indeed grow the economy (federal revenues increased 44% between '03-'06).
You are a walking talking point.
To preserve the "no taxes" Pledge to Grover Norquist, Republicans have agreed to some bigtime gutting at Defense.
Actually, Republicans have agreed to no such thing.
But keep flailing, bozo.
In negotiations, rather than raise taxes, Republicans agreed to go along with substantial defense budget reductions. That would be Cantor and Speaker Boehner.
No flailing, just facts.
And the Army takes the bulk of the planned cuts on the chin because they are fiendishly expensive to deploy over long periods of time. Unless we plan to invade and Nation-build, the AF,Navy are far more effective and cheaper to use in global power projection.
Bad days for the last of the Neocons...
What Cook is really saying is that it would have been preferable to have European Jewry destroyed. Unnecessary my ass.
But Ark had it right earlier: the lack of compliance with the cease fire was the casus belli offered by the Bush administration. WMD was one of a very long list of arguments in favor of resuming hostilities. There were so many arguments offered, by the way, that the New York Times wrote an op-ed complaining that Bush offered too many reasons. Just a few years later, they'd somehow forget about all but one.
Sarah Palin's new word has already been added to the Urban Dictionary and Merriam-Webster will add it before the 2012 elections are over. You heard it first right here.
Refudiate v. To reject with denial.
"Cookie...Will you then join me in pushing for Obama's imprisonment for making war under false pretenses?"
I have long stated that Obama has joined his predecessor in the ranks of war criminals deserving of prosecution.
"What Cook is really saying is that it would have been preferable to have European Jewry destroyed. Unnecessary my ass."
I said no such thing. Neither did I even imply any such thing.
On the subject of WMD and Saddam’s intentions: There’s the fact of the 550 metric tons of yellowcake that Saddam had stored away since even before the invasion of Kuwait. And of course the centrifuge that in 2003 was dug up where it was buried on the property of one of Saddam’s former regime officials. Yellowcake + centrifuges = weapons grade fissionable material sometime down the road when the US would tire of keeping a close eye on Saddam, or at least that seemed to be Saddam’s hope. But after 13 years of Saddam stubbornly violating every sanction imposed after his defeat in Kuwait Bush, jr. had enough and decided to kick ass.
Saddam evidently thought that he could pull his shenanigans with impunity. After all, hadn’t Bush, sr. left Saddam in place after he was run out of Kuwait? That fact probably helped Saddam fall for the “US is a paper tiger” meme fostered by OBL.
Contrast can be an effective persuader. In most of the nations in the area you have oppression and misery. In Iraq you have something obviously better. It pisses off the miserables. Democratic elections, a free press, a plethora of political parties vying for the Iraqi voters’ attention – all this helped foster the “Arab Spring.” Bless your heart, Bush. And your guts.
As of now Iraq is the only nation, aside from Israel, that has any degree of freedom in that region, a situation that seems to trouble Obama, a situation he seems to be trying his best to change.
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On the 21-nation list: Scary, very scary. The commentor posts the list in order to persuade us that much of our military is unnecessary. Oh, my.
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