The Quiet Conservative December 18, 2011
The End of the Iraq War...Really?
No bad day starts out being really bad with a warning beforehand that you should stay in bed. Unless
the family cat gets sick on the bed, and then you can't stay in bed. For today, the day made it past
morning Mass to a check of the news before it turned. I got a personal email from the President letting
me know that the war in Iraq had ended. I know it was personal, because he used my first name and
signed it with his first name.
Early this morning, the last of our troops left Iraq.
As we honor and reflect on the sacrifices that millions of men and women made for this war, I wanted
to make sure you heard the news.
Bringing this war to a responsible end was a cause that sparked many Americans to get involved in
the political process for the first time. Today's outcome is a reminder that we all have a stake in our
country's future, and a say in the direction we choose.
Thank you.
Barack
Allow me to translate. Since taking office my buddy hadn't changed a thing about how the military
operated other than to hobble it at every opportunity. The one thing left to do in Iraq after the Bush
years was to sign a lease for bases. That's it.
It was a real estate deal and his administration so botched the job we got kicked out. You heard that
right. We didn't leave because we wanted to, we got evicted.
"Bringing this war to a responsible end was a cause that sparked many Americans to get involved in
the political process for the first time. Today's outcome is a reminder that we all have a stake in our
country's future, and a say in the direction we choose."
Barack was never a supporter of the war. He opposed it. He worked against it. He worked against
America's interests and against the interests of freedom worldwide. From this little paragraph he is
ashamed we won the war.
He shares no credit for ending the Iraq War because it ended before he took office. Of course, the war
'ends' when the media says it does. It already ended last August when the last of the combat troops
left, didn't it? That was when the war was declared over by the media last time. So this new end of
the Iraq War means it is really, really, over. Again. Or, is it the press covering up the screw up of their
bosses in the administration over getting kicked out?
I guess the new definition of the war 'ends' when all the troops leave. By this logic World War Two is
still running on the clock because we have bases in Germany, Italy, and Japan. So if having a presence
overseas is the mark of a war, when will that conflict be declared at an end?
Let's clear up a few dates for those Twitter affected minds out there. The Iraq war began in 1991
when Iraq invaded Kuwait. The first President Bush kicked them out and under the guise of UN
cooperation, stopped the war before a conclusion was reached which could be defined as total victory.
We then muddled through eight years of a corrupt Clinton Administration and a thoroughly corrupt UN
allowing Iraq to fester while the bribe money flowed- which, along with a jaunt of a completely
amateurish nature in Somalia- both laid the groundwork for 9/11. So do we count those years in the
war?
The second President Bush takes office and lances the boil of Iraq after Saddam Hussein mistakes the
difference between a Democrat who doesn't want America to win, and a Republican who does, in the
White House. After Hussein decides not to listen, after Hussein decides to not allow inspectors back,
after Hussein changes the status quo and won't change back, we finish the original 1991 operation in
2003. By April 9th of that year the country falls. You see, though, there didn't have to be a war at all
if Hussein had allowed the inspectors back in. If he had, there would have been no second Iraq war
and he would still be in power. How convenient the press has air brushed that little fact out of history.
Now, this is where the disinformation really flourishes and the Marxists push the message having laid
the background of distortion. A country that had suffered under a murderous dictator for 24 years and
saddled with the murderous ideology of Islam didn't transform itself into a European socialist model in a
week, so the press wasn't happy.
They got more unhappy when the people there, despite the chaos and foreign terrorists, finally voted in
their own government. The press got even more unhappy when the trouble kept going with Iran's
constant, and active, intervention (that they didn't, and still don't, report on), yet we held firm. Finally,
when the surge took that out, and things quieted down, the press got so unhappy with the successful
outcome they stopped reporting altogether.
If you want to see the mistakes in Iraq, well, the government is full of committed and nihilistic liberals.
What can they touch and not make things worse? Look what they are doing in this country, and
imagine what they can do in a country as screwed up as one in the Middle East.
So, years go by but have you noticed Iraq faded from view? The more Iraq got their act together the
less interesting they became for the press. What war? Where was the coverage on the nightly news of
tanks and air strikes and RPG's? Gone because there wasn't any. Just like there was no coverage or
any acknowledgement of what the troop surge (doomed to failure, but succeeded) and the elimination
of foreign terrorists accomplished in 2007. Iraq seems to have come out the other side successfully and
that can't be allowed, or at least acknowledged. America can't be seen to do anything right when a
Republican is in charge. But then we voted in the Apologist in Chief and the anti-American party. Iraq
continued on their own to build an independent country. They got so successful, they got fed up with
us and told us to get the hell out.
The Iraq mission ran on the plan that was put in place by the Bush Administration. The only thing
Barack accomplished in that regard was to not change what was already being done. Then, all his
administration had to do was sign some leases for some bases in the end somewhere in Iraq to support
Afghanistan, and to pose a security opposition to Iran. And they screwed it up.
Now, here is the thing not reported on by any major news outlet. What was the Status of Forces
Agreement the US had signed with Iraq under President Bush and agreed to by the Iraqi Parliament?
Anybody? Anybody? It was the agreement that all US forces would be out of Iraq by December
31st, 2011! It was President Bush's Administration that agreed to have all troops out of Iraq by this
date. It was up to the Obama Administration to work out a deal for our future presence. So even here
President Bush did what the press now honors Obama with. Our current president has done nothing.
And that's the problem with voting present once again. It was a stinking real estate deal and it didn't get
done.
Barack has yet to accomplish a single thing domestically or on foreign policy level. And no, he gets no
credit for Osama either. The Bush years rebuilt much of the Clinton destroyed intelligence services and
the special ops. Those services, along with much else in the military, would be gutted by the tax and
spend Marxists in charge currently.
We all do have a stake in our country's future, and a say in the direction we choose. But it is safe to
say if you like America, if you want a strong, safe, prosperous, and free America, see what Barack and
his friends are doing, and choose the opposite direction.
Nothing like a personal email from my buddy to turn a good day into a bad day. All in all, I think I
would rather have had the family cat get sick on the bed instead.