White House seeks Congressional Mandate to use American military in Iraq again.

[TheKentuckian]

60. The neat part is each time you cycle the boogieman gets worse and it is easier to incite

the next one. Add in a dose of "this time it is different", sprinkle in some "___ is President now, ___ is no longer going to be mismanaging our forces" and a dash of "interests in harm's way" and it not only works every time but might become more likely with each attempt.

Same line of crap since and including fucking Korea but add in a level of incompetence compounded by some serious failure to comprehend a culture that has never been seen at once and you have what should rightfully be a severe confidence crisis but amazingly does not and you have again with no exit conditions and we are stuck with dangerously stupid.

We have nothing but bombed ourselves into deeper dire straits for over a decade. Maybe we need to step back and recalibrate?