‎4487 dead and 32226 wounded,

[bushwacked]

712000000 dollars invested.

 

0 WMDs

 

 

Goodbye Iraq War and good riddance.

[Ursa Majoris]

712000000 dollars invested.

 

0 WMDs

 

 

Goodbye Iraq War and good riddance.

 

Pretty sure that's $712,000,000,000.........so far.

Edited December 15, 2011 by Ursa Majoris

[SayItAintSoJoe]

712000000 dollars invested.

 

0 WMDs

 

 

Goodbye Iraq War and good riddance.

 

If we would have found 1 WMD we could at least come up with a cost per WMD figure. Damn "division by zero" rule.

[tazinib1]

So when do we prosecute Bush Jr???????

[Yukon Cornelius]

[-O<

[CowboyGal2011]

"Now let me be clear -- I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power. He has repeatedly defied UN resolutions, thwarted UN inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity. He's a bad guy. The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him."

 

Senator Barack Obama (Democrat, Illinois)

During an interview on "Chicago Tonight" with Elizabeth Brackett

April 5, 2004

 

http://freedomagenda.com/iraq/wmd_quotes.html#bE2hIPfbAg

 

[Pope Flick]

"Now let me be clear -- I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power. He has repeatedly defied UN resolutions, thwarted UN inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity. He's a bad guy. The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him."

 

Context is a terrible thing to taste:

Senator Barack Obama (D-Il), then an Illinois state senator, delivered these remarks in October 2002 at the Federal Plaza in Chicago.

 

(Also see Iraq War Statistics & Results, Updated.}

 

"I stand before you as someone who is not opposed to war in all circumstances. The Civil War was one of the bloodiest in history, and yet it was only through the crucible of the sword, the sacrifice of multitudes, that we could begin to perfect this union and drive the scourge of slavery from our soil.

 

I don't oppose all wars. My grandfather signed up for a war the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, fought in Patton's army. He fought in the name of a larger freedom, part of that arsenal of democracy that triumphed over evil.

 

I don't oppose all wars. After September 11, after witnessing the carnage and destruction, the dust and the tears, I supported this administration's pledge to hunt down and root out those who would slaughter innocents in the name of intolerance, and I would willingly take up arms myself to prevent such tragedy from happening again.

 

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz and other armchair, weekend warriors in this administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne.

 

What I am opposed to is the attempt by political hacks like Karl Rove to distract us from a rise in the uninsured, a rise in the poverty rate, a drop in the median income, to distract us from corporate scandals and a stock market that has just gone through the worst month since the Great Depression.

 

That's what I'm opposed to. A dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.

 

Now let me be clear: I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power.... The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him.

 

But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors...and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history.

 

I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a U.S. occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences.

 

I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda.

 

I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars. So for those of us who seek a more just and secure world for our children, let us send a clear message to the president.

 

You want a fight, President Bush? Let's finish the fight with Bin Laden and al-Qaeda, through effective, coordinated intelligence, and a shutting down of the financial networks that support terrorism, and a homeland security program that involves more than color-coded warnings.

 

You want a fight, President Bush? Let's fight to make sure that...we vigorously enforce a nonproliferation treaty, and that former enemies and current allies like Russia safeguard and ultimately eliminate their stores of nuclear material, and that nations like Pakistan and India never use the terrible weapons already in their possession, and that the arms merchants in our own country stop feeding the countless wars that rage across the globe.

 

You want a fight, President Bush? Let's fight to make sure our so-called allies in the Middle East, the Saudis and the Egyptians, stop oppressing their own people, and suppressing dissent, and tolerating corruption and inequality, and mismanaging their economies so that their youth grow up without education, without prospects, without hope, the ready recruits of terrorist cells.

 

You want a fight, President Bush? Let's fight to wean ourselves off Middle East oil through an energy policy that doesn't simply serve the interests of Exxon and Mobil.

 

Those are the battles that we need to fight. Those are the battles that we willingly join. The battles against ignorance and intolerance. Corruption and greed. Poverty and despair."

[SayItAintSoJoe]

"Now let me be clear -- I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power. He has repeatedly defied UN resolutions, thwarted UN inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity. He's a bad guy. The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him."

 

Senator Barack Obama (Democrat, Illinois)

During an interview on "Chicago Tonight" with Elizabeth Brackett

April 5, 2004

 

Truer words have never been spoken. Saddam Hussein was a very bad man. I think everyone can agree on that.

[CowboyGal2011]

"My position is very clear: The time has come for decisive action to eliminate the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. I'm a co-sponsor of the bipartisan Resolution that's presently under consideration in the Senate. Saddam Hussein's regime is a grave threat to America and our allies. We know that he has chemical and biological weapons today, that he's used them in the past, and that he's doing everything he can to build more. Every day he gets closer to his long-term goal of nuclear capability.

 

Senator John Edwards (Democrat, North Carolina)

Speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies

October 7, 2002

[CowboyGal2011]

"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including Al Qaeda members

 

Senator Hillary Clinton (Democrat, New York)

Addressing the US Senate

October 10, 2002

[lkirc]

I am glad it is over. It took way too long and way too many lives on both sides.

 

While I am an isolationist, I think any President would have eventually invaded Iraq. Oil is too important to our ecenomy to ignore the opportunity to gain a political foothold in the region.

 

Let the attacks begin. I am just stating my ignorant opinion.

 

I am very happy for the soldiers and their families.

[SayItAintSoJoe]

"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including Al Qaeda members

 

 

Senator Hillary Clinton (Democrat, New York)

Addressing the US Senate

October 10, 2002

 

 

Boy did she get that one wrong or what? Cost her the nomination in 2008 to the one that got it right, IMO.

[bushwacked]

Boy did she get that one wrong or what? Cost her the nomination in 2008 to the one that got it right, IMO.

 

i think the moral of the story is when CowboysGal agrees with Hilary Clinton it couldn't be a dumber and more disastrous idea.

[bpwallace49]

712000000 dollars invested. completely and utterly pissed away

0 WMDs

 

 

Goodbye Iraq War and good riddance.

 

fixed

[evil_gop_liars]

Senator John Edwards (Democrat, North Carolina)

Speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies

October 7, 2002

 

 

Senator Hillary Clinton (Democrat, New York)

Addressing the US Senate

October 10, 2002

 

Sure then you were in favor of bipartisanship. Now with a crapped out economy and middle class families struggling a time when it really really matters, all you can say is NO. Typical...

Edited December 15, 2011 by evil_gop_liars

[CowboyGal2011]

Sure then you were in favor of bipartisanship. Now with a crapped out economy and middle class families struggling a time when it really really matters, all you can say is NO. Typical...

 

"Normally, you don’t raise taxes in a recession, which is why we haven’t and why we’ve instead cut taxes. So I guess what I’d say to Scott is – his economics are right. You don’t raise taxes in a recession. We haven’t raised taxes in a recession.”

[tazinib1]

Kinda like haynesworth and sacks playing for the redskins.

 

Too soon?

 

 

Ask the families of our fallen soldiers.

[SEC=UGA]

This ain't gonna end well...

[jetsfan]

Ask the families of our fallen soldiers.

 

Dude!

You cannot introduce reality into a Tailgate thread. Bad things happen.

F'n noob.

[Hugh 0ne]

Kinda like haynesworth and sacks playing for the redskins.

 

Too soon?

 

You and Randull would get along great.

[Ursa Majoris]

Kinda like haynesworth and sacks playing for the redskins.

 

Too soon?

Unworthy of response.

[Jimmy Neutron]

Good.

 

Next up: Afghanistan.

[I Like Soup]

Good.

 

Next up: Afghanistan.

Shoot, bring 'em all home from all the bases around the world. I'm pretty sure the Europeans can take care of themselves nowadays and let's face it, we aren't fighting the Cold War anymore and have to be the big kid on the block.

[Yukon Cornelius]

Shoot, bring 'em all home from all the bases around the world. I'm pretty sure the Europeans can take care of themselves nowadays and let's face it, we aren't fighting the Cold War anymore and have to be the big kid on the block.

money, money,money,moneymoney

[isleseeya]

712000000 dollars invested.

 

0 WMDs

 

 

Goodbye Iraq War and good riddance.

 

Amen