He Warned Them of Disaster ...

[sheshe2]

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A Refresher on Iraq for Republican Revisionists



4• The Bush administration had made their case for the urgency of regime change in Iraq by early 2003. American and "coalition" forces attack, Saddam Hussein is overthrown. His fate decided by his Shiite enemies whom we turned him over to, he meets "justice" at the end of a rope. The Shia cheer. The Sunnis disappear. The Kurds begin making noise about a Kurdish state. The Turks freak out. The mullahs in Iran grin. The Syrians start getting ideas. The Israelis lose sleep. Donald Rumsfeld insists less than 7,000 US troops are all that will be required to control Baghdad, a city of 5 million people, in place of the 250,000 Saddam used to maintain order. What could go wrong?




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[Old and In the Way]

1. Cheney is not nearly as bright as he thinks he is.

Clearly, the Iraq War he wanted was the pinnacle of stupid hubris on display. But thinking he can undermine the current administration by projecting the Bush-Cheney failures on Obama will backfire incredibly bad. He's opened an old wound that any honest political commentator will have to react to. And it will be a universal acknowledgement that this current mess is precisely what many in opposition expected. Even Beck admitted that liberals got it right...and he didn't.

Enjoy the blowback, Dickhead. And, instead of hiding behind a cowardly editorial, why don't you debate this issue, in public, against people who can and will school you on recent American history.

[dawg]

3. I meet lots of people like Dick Cheney. They are smart enough to have a basic understanding ...

of the issues. They use this basic understanding to come to all sorts of black and white opinions that fail to take account of all the different nuances that are involved.

They know more than the average person, but they know far less than someone who is well-informed and aware of all the different variables. Unfortunately, they think they know more than the well-informed. The Dunning-Kruger effect is in full swing with these folks. Fortunately, most of then aren't in positions of real power. They just wind up losing their life savings by putting it all in gold, or Iraqi Dinars, or some stupid shit like that. Dick Cheney, on the other hand, wound up running the country.

[dawg]

2. Even though I have had some big disagreements with President Obama ...

it has been so nice to have an 8 year break from having a megalomaniacal warmonger in the White House.