Nobody wants to admit this: Saddam Hussein would be our ally against ISIS

[shadowmayor]

65. Thanks for your reply

Calimary - that was right-said-Fred! Believe it or not, there were some (certainly a minority) of us in the military who thought the whole the whole Iraq story was crap from the get-go. I spoke out loudly and often and many in my unit thought I was some kind of commie-kissin', Hillary-huggin', hippy dipstick who didn't belong in this man's army. After several weeks in Abu Ghraib I started getting visits late at night from my fellow soldiers who usually said something like: "You weren't joking about this stuff, were you?" or "man I thought you were nuts and an asshole, and I'm sorry". And so the conversations would begin.

The PNAC list is a real who's who of heartless human excrement. And it is truly perpetual war for perpetual empire. Smedley Butler was right, war is a racket. Pax Americana is Pox Americana. To see Cheney or Rumsfeld or Condi on TV makes my blood boil and I question the sanity of a population that doesn't demand their swift "rendition" to the Hague. I know a lot of the beltway echo chorus comes from the think tanks you mentioned - propaganda centers that really gathered steam after Goldwater got crushed by LBJ. And let's not forget how many of the PNAC shit-stains got their start under Dick Nixon's tutelage and guidance.

I don't often post, but sometimes it just seems like the right thing to do? I appreciate your reply and at the end of the day, a slice of key lime pie and a good book will remind me that maybe there is hope for the simians after all?

The Shadow Mayor