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JackRiddler

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6. The travesty is not over...

Thu Mar 27, 2014, 08:39 PM

Mar 2014

only now it's the Iraqis living with the horror, all on their own.

And the U.S. military involvement continued under the Obama administration right up until the deadline in the SOFA reached under Bush, with a failed attempt to extend the U.S. presence past that date.

Hardly "ending the travesty," when the withdrawal was already scheduled in the treaty.

What about reparations? What about helping Iraqis to recover? What about the hundreds of thousands who have not returned home? What about letting them immigrate here? They live in ethnically cleansed enclaves, under a virtual dictatorship, with continuing high levels of violence - this is the U.S. legacy.

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11 Years On, Bearing Witness to Iraq War's Lasting Harm [View all] G_j Mar 2014 OP

Does no one care anymore what our country did to the Iraqi people? I am Mnemosyne Mar 2014 #1

I share your dismay nt G_j Mar 2014 #3

Thanks for that, G_J, feels lonely sometimes doesn't it? nt Mnemosyne Mar 2014 #34

it does G_j Mar 2014 #35

Since 1991, when Poppy Doc Bush lied America into war on Iraq. Octafish Mar 2014 #16

+100 G_j Mar 2014 #28

I shudder when I read people on DU claim that Poppy was a half-way "decent" guy. Mnemosyne Mar 2014 #33

K&R Solly Mack Mar 2014 #2

Thank God Obama ended that travesty. JaneyVee Mar 2014 #4

it ain't really over for the Iraqi people. nt G_j Mar 2014 #5

The travesty is not over... JackRiddler Mar 2014 #6

Bush ended his own war! joshcryer Mar 2014 #8

Why would you say something so ridiculous? JackRiddler Mar 2014 #10

You say Bush's SOFA = got us out of Iraq. joshcryer Mar 2014 #12

I know that some things can never be fixed, once broken G_j Mar 2014 #9

The U.S. needs to increase foreign aid to Iraq, agree? n/t ProSense Mar 2014 #17

from the link, G_j Mar 2014 #18

Is that a yes or a no? n/t ProSense Mar 2014 #19

LOL G_j Mar 2014 #20

No answer? n/t ProSense Mar 2014 #23

thanks, but no thanks G_j Mar 2014 #24

Do you understand the difference between "foreign aid" and "reparations"? Scootaloo Mar 2014 #29

Yes: ProSense Mar 2014 #15

DU rec n/t Catherina Mar 2014 #7

Recommended Autumn Mar 2014 #11

k G_j Mar 2014 #13

HUGE K & R !!! WillyT Mar 2014 #14

The day the bombs started dropping - Hell Hath No Fury Mar 2014 #21

Yay! The system works! Zorra Mar 2014 #22

Recommend...it's important! KoKo Mar 2014 #25

While George Bush paints self-portraits & Cheney gets invited to Sunday morning talk shows. CrispyQ Mar 2014 #26

K&R. NCTraveler Mar 2014 #27

Not all was bad. As Obama pointed out, it was a multi-lateral effort Steve Martines Mar 2014 #30

I don't see many Iraq-war-supporters taking any responsibility. Whatsoever. johnnyreb Mar 2014 #31

I'm shocked and offended by suggestions that it's time to get over Iraq.... mike_c Mar 2014 #32