Meet the new boss, same as the old boss [View All]

[WilliamPitt]

It is truly amazing. For decades, Saddam Hussein and his Ba'athists were our guys. We used them to overthrow an Iraqi government which had the gall to nationalize its oil, we used them to contain an Iran that was dabbling with the Soviets, we used them to squash Islamic fundamentalists in Iraq.

And then Hussein used our weapons, training and money to take Kuwait. Because he threatened the petroleum balance, we bashed him back into Baghdad, and put the screws to him and his people for twelve years. In that time period, President William Jefferson Clinton used a combination of sanctions, military power and United Nations inspectors to destroy Hussein's stockpiles of WMDs, which by the way we helped Hussein assemble in the first place.

In comes Bush, and out goes Hussein and the Ba'athists. Chaos results.

But today, we are letting Ba'athists back into positions of power. Today, we are basically reconstituting Hussein's army so it can fight in Fallujah. Our old proxies are back in the game. All that is left, really, is to let Hussein out.

The Iraqi people were right. Most of them despised Hussein, but were not siding with us because they weren't sure who was going to win this thing. They were right to be cautious - a lot of Hussein's people are getting guns and power, and are being keys to the country again. Saddam Hussein, basically, has won the war.

Epic failure. Massive failure. Total and complete failure.