*Leave Iraq Alone!---it won't happen.the warmongers are making too much
money to stop.*
On Sunday, November 30, 2014 9:28:19 PM UTC-6, MJ wrote:
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> November 24, 2014
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> *Rand Paul Is Wrong. Leave Iraq Alone! *by Jacob G. Hornberger
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> Still opposing the Iraq War in 2003, Senator Rand Paul now wants Congress
> to declare war against the Islamic State and engage in military action in
> Iraq. He says that “national security” is at stake.
>
> I’ve got a better idea: Leave Iraq alone! Hasn’t the U.S. government done
> enough damage already in Iraq?
>
> Consider all the death and destruction that interventionists have wrought
> on this poor nation. Some people estimate that more than a million Iraqis
> have died as a result of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. The
> reason we don’t have a more precise figure is because the U.S. military
> announced at the inception of the invasion in 2003 that it would not keep
> track of Iraqi dead. It would keep track of American dead but not Iraqi
> dead. The number of Iraqis killed in the conflict just didn’t matter.
> Iraqis were looked upon the same way that U.S. military officials looked
> upon Vietnamese people as “gooks” during the Vietnam War.
>
> Consider all the maimed Iraqis the paralyzed, the blind, the
> handicapped. Their lives will never be the same again.
>
> Consider those who were injured but managed to recover. Who cares about
> the pain and suffering they underwent? Certainly not the people who caused
> it.
>
> Consider all the destruction that came with the invasion and occupation.
> Homes, businesses, roads, bridges. Bombed, shot up, and destroyed.
>
> Consider the torture sessions at Abu Ghraib, where the troops disrobed
> Iraqi men and committed all sorts of sexual and physical mayhem on them. In
> fact, think about the Iraqi prisoners who were executed while in CIA or
> U.S. military custody.
>
> Indeed, consider the brutal, tyrannical regime that is now governing Iraq.
> The only difference between it and Saddam’s regime is the identity of the
> victims.
>
> Interventionists continue to say that it was all worth it, a rather
> cavalier attitude given that it was the Iraqi people who bore most of the
> costs for the operation. Yes, it’s true that thousands of U.S. troops were
> killed, maimed, injured, or came back all screwed up in the head, but those
> horrors pale in comparison to what the Iraqi people have suffered.
>
> Interventionists will tell you that the Iraqis had it coming that they
> were nothing but “bad guys.”
>
> Of course, there is just one glaring problem in all this: The U.S.
> government was the aggressor in the war! It was the violator of the
> principle against “wars of aggression” that was enforced against Nazi
> officials at the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal. The U.S. government
> attacked Iraq. Iraq was the defending nation.
>
> Nonetheless, Americans are constantly exhorted to thank the troops for
> their “service” in Iraq: “Thank you, troops, for killing, maiming,
> injuring, and torturing all those Iraqis during your war of aggression
> against Iraq, a type of war declared a war crime at Nuremberg.”
>
> Of course, that’s not how the actual praise goes. Instead, it goes “Thank
> you for defending our rights and freedoms in Iraq.” Never mind that neither
> the Iraqi government nor the Iraqi people ever threatened “our rights and
> freedoms.” Americans need something anything to salve the conscience
> after the orgy of death and destruction that the U.S. government unleashed
> on a country that never attacked the United States or even threatened to do
> so.
>
> Wouldn’t you love to know exactly how the Islamic State supposedly poses a
> threat to “national security,” a term that has no objective meaning? Do
> interventionists imagine that an Islamic State victory would mean that the
> United States would fall into the ocean? Does they imagine that it would
> mean that Iraq would end up invading, conquering, and occupying the United
> States, taking over the IRS, the Interstate Highway System, and the Federal
> Reserve? Does they imagine that it would mean that Americans would have to
> learn Farsi?
>
> The reality is that it wouldn’t mean any of those things. In fact, the
> reality is that an Islamic State victory in Iraq would constitute no threat
> whatsoever to the United States or to “our rights and freedoms.”
>
> After all, would an Islamic State government be any different from Saddam
> Hussein’s regime or, for that matter, tyrannical regimes in Saudi Arabia,
> Egypt, Bahrain, Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela, Vietnam, Burma, China, or the
> regime currently governing Iraq? Isn’t it rather clear that the United
> States is still standing notwithstanding the existence of tyrannical
> regimes in the world?
>
> Didn’t we hear these imperialist bromides throughout the Cold War? If
> North Vietnam were to win the war, the dominoes would start falling, and
> the American people would soon be speaking communist. If Chile, Venezuela,
> Nicaragua, Bolivia, or other Latin American countries were to join Cuba on
> the road to communism and socialism, it wouldn’t be long before the United
> States would fall to the U.S. Communist Party.
>
> It was all imperialist nonsense. South Vietnam fell, and the United States
> is still standing. Those Latin American countries have all gone socialist
> or communist, and the United States is still standing. Indeed, Cuba is
> still communist, and the United States is still standing.
>
> Forget declaring war on the Islamic State. The U.S. government has done
> enough damage in Iraq. More intervention will only pour fuel on the fire
> that the U.S. government ignited with its wrongful invasion and occupation
> of Iraq in 2003.
>
> Leave Iraq alone! It’s the best thing that the U.S. government could ever
> do for the Iraqi people. Enough is enough.
>
> http://fff.org/2014/11/24/rand-paul-wrong-leave-iraq-alone/
>
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