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2018-03-23 Iraq

The Iraq War Was A Mistake. So Why Can't Gen. Petraeus Finally Admit It?

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-03-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 You know who wrote the infamous fake WMD memo that was used to justify the war? Robert S. Mueller III. Yup, that same one. And people say the Deep State doesn't exist. The smoking gun:

https://fas.org/irp/congress/2003_hr/021103mueller.html

Posted by Herb McCoy7309 2018-03-23 01:50|| 2018-03-23 01:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Going in wasn't the mistake. Leaving too soon was the mistake. Anything else is a bullshit lie.

Playing the "with what you know now" game is absolute horseshit and deserves no answer. We did not know then with any certainty, and we did have indicators that pointed toward WMD there, especially with the game-playing with UN inspectors and so on. So we had to act or risk a mass destruction attack on the US. The September 11th attacks showed that we cannot remain complacent, nor can we wait for "perfect" intelligence.

Anything to the contrary is just a bunch of crap by people trying to rewrite history and play "gotcha". Screw them.

Posted by OldSpook 2018-03-23 03:05|| 2018-03-23 03:05|| Front Page Top

#3 The war wasn't a mistake - Muslims, and Arabs especially, need to be reminded periodically who is who and what is what. "Nation building", now that was a mistake!

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-03-23 05:04|| 2018-03-23 05:04|| Front Page Top

#4 This is the second time I've seen a story from "Task & Purpose". Folks, it claims it's for US servicemen, but it has a regular column titled "The Long March". Caveat emptor.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2018-03-23 07:58|| 2018-03-23 07:58|| Front Page Top

#5 WMD = chemical, biological, nuclear.

Reminder of all the chemical weapons seized and destroyed since occupying Iraq. Stuff that was suppose to have been gone well before we went back in. Remember the freak out when ISIS occupied one of the site were the material was being processed out of weapon status?

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-03-23 08:38|| 2018-03-23 08:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Going in was no mistake. The ultimate pursuit of the war absolutely was. We had the chance to do the right thing and on multiple levels in '91 and stopped for no intelligible reason.

Posted by Cesare 2018-03-23 11:05|| 2018-03-23 11:05|| Front Page Top

#7 People in my old company in the 82nd died from those non-existent WMD's. Trapped and exposed in a WMD chemical storage bunker with no gear. Buried info now.

This "Task and Purpose" org is just another one to hate. And Mueller was involved in the finding? Find a link between him and Jamie Gorelick. Oh wait, another traitor from Hale and Dorr, now Wilmer Pickering Hale and Dorr. A nest of traitors since the '50's. Maybe earlier, I can't tell. But commies all.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2018-03-23 11:09|| 2018-03-23 11:09|| Front Page Top

#8 Sorry got the commie bastards company name wrong. It is now Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2018-03-23 11:15|| 2018-03-23 11:15|| Front Page Top

#9 I wanted to believe that Bush knew what he was doing in Iraq. Now we know better. Live and learn. These days I believe the best revenge against Arabs is to leave them to their own devices.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-03-23 11:44|| 2018-03-23 11:44|| Front Page Top

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