Bombing Iraq. Not what I voted for.

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5. The MIC always finds a way to trick the voters.

Remember how the Dems won big in '06 by running against the Iraq War?

What happened?

Rumsfeld resigned, which was good. But Bushco went ahead with the "Surge" which sent even more troops to Iraq.

Obama ran on ending the war in Iraq and fighting Al Qaeda.

What happened?

He removed troops from Iraq and went hard after Al Qaeda, taking out their chief propagandist (Anwar Al-Awlaki) and their leader (Osama Bin Laden). He also implemented the drone policy to target Al Qaeda affiliates (which he overdid IMO, but that's for another argument).

So far, so good.

But in the meantime, supporting uprisings in Libya and Syria incubated a whole new breed of terrorists, even worse than Al Qaeda and this time with a standing army.

So we're back to square one. The MIC gets its wars and the police state gets what it wants. The good side is that there are less American boots on the ground in the war zones.

(Not to mention the posturing against Russia, which was a u-turn from previous indications).

A step towards a way out of this is to release the various reports that are being held back.