Everyone remember when they said deposing Saddam was gonna work out Just Great?

[phantom power]

Democracy! Nation Building!

And the dirty hippies who said it all seemed a bit optimistic were just a bunch of nay-saying cheese eating surrender monkeys.

Well, here we are -- Iraq in chaos, bombing in Syria, and arming rebels. I, myself, am counting the days until I'm once again asked Why Do I Hate America?

[VanillaRhapsody]

1. I was one of those dirty hippies then....but I don't agree with you on this....

this is not unilateral.

[malthaussen]

2. Well, I blew that one myself.

Not that I thought there was any point to regime change, but back in the first Iraqi war, I said that unless we ended up hanging Saddam from a lamppost, we had wasted our time. I figured some other sub-moronic strong man would take his place. Allah knows there are a sufficiency of those in the region.

-- Mal

[Maedhros]

3. "Why do you hate America?" has been played out.

The war pigs are now floating "More civilians will die from our inaction than from our air strikes!"

Funny how that talking point showed up en masse.

[customerserviceguy]

4. Hey, that was when Republicons

were saying that we would be greeted as liberators.

I'm sure that now we have a Nobel Peace Prize laureate working this thing, that it's all going to turn out completely different.

[randome]

5. 'Dirty hippies' is as over-used as 'morans'.

'They' who said that about Saddam were incompetent liars. I don't judge the current administration by what came before. And you shouldn't, either.
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[badtoworse]

6. You're right. Saddam was a great guy.

[JEB]

7. Evidently this latest

bloody mess of welfare for the MIC is going to pay for itself since the middle class is largely bust and so many working class jobs are overseas. Of course it would be unpatriotic to ask the rich to cough up any dough.

[Make7]

8. For some people it is working out great.

The question is: are the people who is it working out for influential enough to prolong it, or are the people it is harming going to be able to stop it?