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After the United States won the battle for Baghdad in the Iraqi war, the nation’s military essentially collapsed. And former Vice President Dick Cheney says maybe the United States should have prevented the military establishment from disintegrating once strongman Saddam Hussein was ousted.
“It may have been a mistake,” Cheney said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday.
To be sure, what to do about Iraq’s military wasn’t all under U.S. control, the former vice president pointed out.
Originally posted by JIMC5499
reply to post by Paulioetc15
There could be some truth to what you say. Personally I think that they expected the Iraqi Army to put up more of a fight than they did and were not prepared for winning that fast. Rather than have large groups of potentially hostile people, behing your lines, with minimal forces to guard them, they decided to disband the Iraqi Army. 20/20 hindsight proved them wrong.
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Originally posted by DaddyBare
More of a side note...
but if you go to USA jobs... the government jobs web site and type in "Iraq"
guess what you get???
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Current active jobs over there... a good many require small arms expertise tooedit on 20-9-2011 by DaddyBare because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by muzzleflash
That's our politicians.
They seem to be very good at making huge mistakes and creating massive problems, especially in the face of mass public criticism, when many of us were saying not to disband them in the first place.
And then 10 years later they come and say "oops".
I have no idea why anyone believes in government/corporate mouthpieces anyways. This is a pattern and it is repeatable and measurable.
Just go elect someone. Then in 10 years, they will apologize for messing everything up worse.
That is how government and corporations work. That's it's purpose. To relieve criminals of accountability and make sure that no one is ever responsible.
I just wish people would stop believing in their lies. That's all.
Originally posted by trollslayer
reply to post by Paulioetc15
Demilitarization of a regime is often the most difficult and pivotol phase of "liberating" a nation. This is why USASF tend to water down the training of their guerillas as they are more than likely going to return and dismantle them when they try their own power grab. Case in point: nearly every South American country we have dabbled in.
Originally posted by illuminatislave
We shouldn't have been in Iraq in the first place, I don't want to hear a bunch of bull# about what we should have done.
What should have been done? Arresting that war criminal Dick Cheney would have been a good start at doing "something".
This is comical.
Originally posted by Paulioetc15
Originally posted by illuminatislave
We shouldn't have been in Iraq in the first place, I don't want to hear a bunch of bull# about what we should have done.
What should have been done? Arresting that war criminal Dick Cheney would have been a good start at doing "something".
This is comical.
We should have went into Baghdad and toppled Saddam Hussein's Regime from power in 1991 after Iraqi troops were thrown out of Kuwait. It would have been for the better for the world. More Allied troops would have been conduced with UN and Arab State support with a proper occupation. Then Iraq would have been a first class world economy instead of a mess they are in now.
Look at what we did in Japan and Germany. A proper occupation of it make those two countries first world class economies.edit on 20-9-2011 by Paulioetc15 because: (no reason given)