"We created the breeding ground for a force that is much more significant than al Qaeda.....

[grahamhgreen]

Al Qaeda considers it 'too militant'. A force that hardly had any leverage before.

So that in the name of defeating al Qaeda, we invaded a country that had nothing to do with all Qaeda, and now we've created an even worse force in a strategically far more important and sensitive area of the world" - Robert Scheer


Let's not do it again by prolonging our engagement further.

[spanone]

1. and cheney / bu$h are free men....shame on us

[tblue37]

2. Is this from an article? If so, do you have a link? nt

[grahamhgreen]

4. He said it on "Left, Right and Center" last night:

http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/left-right-center

[sabrina 1]

3. Cheney, Bush et al lied and this is the result.

He is correct of course. Everything that is happening in the ME now is a direct result of the neocon policies of invading their countries and turning the 'entire ME into a parking lot', or whatever that quote was.

We killed over a million people in Iraq alone, tortured and imprisoned who knows how many more, raped and sodomized women and children.

Now we act SHOCKED that our puppet government in Iraq, which has completely alienated a whole segment of the population for years, ordering the shooting and killing of peaceful protesters there, his US Trained police, torturing people etc, has created so much anger that extremists have been able to thrive there.

Four million Iraqis were driven out of their country years ago, into Jordan and Syria where they had to live in refugee camps, and still do.

Now we are going back?? To do what? Didn't people WARN against going into that war?

Here's what WE need to do. Arrest and try the War Mongers who started all of this.

[grahamhgreen]

5. That is exactly the solution. Good pro-active thinking:)

[sabrina 1]

12. Thank you.

[MisterP]

6. like Hamas and Afghanistan circa 1980, drugrunning in Honduras c. 1985 (the 1979-82 cocaine

was Buenos Aires's initiative), shelling Mogadishu 2006, Libyan and Syrian AQ 2011!

our responses to the "current crisis ZOMG we have to do something" will cause the "next crisis ZOMG we have to do something"

[hifiguy]

7. And nothing is learned one more time.

The US midwifed Al Qaeda by way of Raygun's supporting the Afghan mujaheddin. Chimpy and Darth's "adventure" in Iraq is directly responsible for ISIL.

The one lesson history teaches is that no one learns the lessons of history.

[lunatica]

8. Again oil is in the mix

people have money and profit to make. Get out of the way.

And as long as we keep blaming the wrong factions and people, or ourselves, the few are laughing all the way to the bank. Cause not only do they make oil profits, but they also make arms profits and military equipment profits. Organizations like Blackwater make money hand over fist 'protecting' them too.

[tblue37]

9. +1! nt

[GeorgeGist]

10. It's all part of neocon plan B ...

so they'll claim once they think of it.

[grahamhgreen]

11. Plan B: trick the Dems into Iraq again, then blame the whole mess on us!