2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: "How the National Rifle Association helped get Bernie Sanders elected" [View all]slipslidingaway
(21,210 posts)shock and awe, who could forget! Not the millions of people who were being liberated by our invasion and those who voted to allow such an invasion and later saying it was a mistake!
Problem is that 14 years later Iraq is still suffering from the MISTAKE that some our politicians voted for, their lives will never be the same, Whole generations have missed a step. Going to school, having children etc. Can we even comprehend what we have done to millions of people who have been displaced?
Bush said 'why do they hate us' and the Dems are asking the same question? Look what we have done to destabilize the region going back to the 1950's. We better start to take a close look and see the havoc we are causing. And that includes Clinton with her blasé attitude towards invading another country.
'Shock and awe' campaign underway in Iraq
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/fyi/news/03/22/iraq.war/
"Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld held a news conference at about 1:40 p.m. EST. He announced that the air war had begun, and he listed some of the coalition objectives in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Those objectives included defending Americans against Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction, ridding the Gulf country of such illegal weapons, liberating the Iraqi people, and ending the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
Rumsfeld said that the strike had taken place "on a scale that indicates to Iraqis" that Saddam and his leadership were finished. He added that the allies would work to search for, capture, and drive out terrorists who had found safe harbor in Iraq, as well as to deliver humanitarian relief to the Iraqi people..."