500,000 Iraqi civilians flee Mosul fighting, migration group says:

After the longest and costliest wars in USA’s history this is the end result; 500,000 civilians felling their cities in Iraq to escape from the terrorist that the USA was supposed to eliminate.

I said when the USA invade Iraq it was a big mistake and their country as well as our country would be worse off than when we got there. My assertion was exactly the end result but not the end of the story. I based my opinion on another disasters like Vietnam  that most people should remember.

That move was labeled a “strategic withdrawal”.  For clarification, that means running away with your tail between your legs.  The USA left hundreds of million of dollars in equipment on the ground for the enemy to use when they made hasty withdrawal.

We shouldn’t be involved in any wars at all but if we are for the sake of protecting our own country, fight the war like a war should be fought to win.  It should not be a political or popularity contest.

If any country were to attack the USA their first target would be New York City and other major big cities to put us out of commission with no regard for human casualties.  War is not a game of tag but serious undertaking and should be fought like it.

If it was not for the politics involved the USA has the capabilities to end all of the wars we are in today in one week without putting any boots on the ground.

What it cost our country to go into places where we did not belong  is incalculable all because we had some egotistical mad men in the White House that were bound and determined to go to war, regardless of all of the negative opinions of the public or it’s cost.

They deliberately disregarded the fact finding report their “top notch” weapons inspectors came back from Iraq with.  Their report said conclusively there were no weapons of mass destruction hidden in Iraq. That was supposed to be the primary reason for the invasion.

Why did they send anyone to Iraq to inspect if they were not going to respect their findings?

The only reason the inspector was sent to Iraq was for “show and tell”. President Chaney and Vice President Bush made up their minds long before the inspection team took their fact finding trip that they were going to war.

When the initial contingent of troops got to Iraq and began moving through the country they substantiated what the inspector had reported, no weapon of mass destruction existed.

If the USA invaded Iraq because they thought Iraq had these weapons and found out conclusively there were none, why didn’t they retreat and come home?

Reason being; there were many companies that were slated to make billions over this war. Most of them made their money through “non-bid” backdoor arrangements. Check out what company Cheney was the CEO of and who gave him a $35,000,000.00 “WALKING AWAY BONUS” when he left to serve as vice president.

Facts from Think Progress:

The Bush administration predicted that it would cost around $50-60 billion in total. They were wrong by more than a factor of ten, sending the U.S.’ debt soaring, a condition that has yet to be rectified. According to a recent study, the war is set to have cost the U.S $2.2 trillion, though that number may reach up to $4 trillion thanks to interest payments on the loans taken out to finance the conflict. Of that staggering amount, at least $10 billion of it was completely wasted in rebuilding efforts.

That is a very interesting fact, The USA borrowed money to fight a war. Makes a lot of sense.

The soldiers charged with fighting the war were stretched to their limits, put through multiple tours, with increasing length of time overseas as the war stretched on and shrinking downtime in between each. All-told, over 4,000 U.S. troops died during the country’s time in Iraq, with another 31,000 wounded in action. In the aftermath, the cost of providing medical care to veterans has doubled, adding to the difficulties faced by those who served. Up to 35 percent of Iraq War veterans will suffer from PTSD according to a 2009 study, while the suicide rate among veterans has jumped to 22 per day.

And today who is suppose to be taking care of all of the casualties of this and other wars? The VA that has been accused of killing at least 50 people and ignoring 1000’s of other all for the sake of increasing their bonuses. These heartless low-life’s that run the VA should get the full measure of the law for their misdeeds. I am sure when it is all settled they will come out smelling like a rose, just like in every coverup the government is involved in.

If someone is drunk and kills another person while driving, they are charged with vehicular homicide. They didn’t mean to kill some but the facts still remain they did. The same prescience should be used with the deliberate mishandling of the men and women that serve our country.

Even worse, the war in Iraq caused the U.S. to take its eye off the ball in Afghanistan. Rather than following through, the Bush administration allowed the country to stagnate, prompting a Taliban resurgence beginning in 2004. As the West focused almost exclusively on Iraq, Taliban fighters’ imported tactics seen in Iraq to great effect, keeping the Afghan government weak and U.S.-led NATO forces on their heels. The result: the United States is still attempting to tamp down on Taliban momentum today.

The Taliban will never be defeated. When people from any society or organization have no regard for their own life, how are they stopped. Do you threaten to kill them???

Aside from missed opportunities in Afghanistan, the Iraq War-effort was all-consuming, pulling resources from all other areas of U.S. defense policy. Relationships with key allies were allowed to grow stale and U.S. prestige around the world plummeted. Fighting in Iraq was realized to be a diversion from combating al Qaeda, drawing funding that could have gone towards a litany of other efforts to effectively counter terrorism.

The power vacuum left after the fall of Saddam and the lack of adequate U.S. forces left room for U.S. adversaries to fill the void. Counter to what some still believe, Al Qaeda had no presence in Iraq prior to 2003. Instead, it was only in the post-Saddam climate that they gained a foothold in the form of Al Qaeda in Iraq. The group continues to carry out attacks against civilians to this day, keeping the Iraqi government on edge.

What did was the cost and what was the end result of killing Saddam. It cost billions and the outcome did not resolve anything but some very expensive bragging rights.

In the end, it was not the United States that gained the most strategically from invading Iraq, but the Shiite-dominated Islamic Republic of Iran. In removing Saddam Hussein’s predominantly Sunni regime from power, the U.S. opened the door to a greater Iranian influence in the region. That influence has been seen playing out counter to U.S. interests in situations such as allowing Iranian planes bearing weapons for Syria to cross Iraqi airspace.

“The end of former Iraq President Saddam Hussein’s brutal regime represents a consider- able global good, and a nascent democratic Iraqi republic partnered with the United States could potentially yield benefits in the future,” CAP’s Matt Duss writes in the Iraq War Ledger, A Look at the War’s Human, Financial, and Strategic Costs, “But when weighing those possible benefits against the costs of the Iraq intervention, there is simply no conceivable calculus by which Operation Iraqi Freedom can be judged to have been a successful or worthwhile policy. The war was intended to show the extent of America’s power. It succeeded only in showing its limits.”

Iraq was 100% better off when Saddam was in power. Some people do not want to comprehend  that countries like Iraq have survived under these types of rule for a 1000’s years and are for the most part very functional.

Some people say that Russia was better off under communism than it is now. I think Putin is headed back in that direction.

I doubt that one of these days the people in power in the USA will come to the realization that not every country in the world has to dance to their tune. We have so many issues to deal with here in the United States that we have no business going around the world and interfering with the way other governments run their country. They did it before and will continue to rule their way when we leave defeated.

With all of these facts in hand and all of the ass kickings the USA has taken in the last 50 years by sticking their nose into places it does belong, one might think that they should have learned their lesson. It doesn’t appear that way.

There are injustices perpetrated on people all over the world by mad-men dictators on a daily basis and it is going to continue that way until that giant asteroid collides with Mother Earth and settles the score with everyone.

Where the hell is it written that the “Good Old USA” has to be the savior for everyone on earth? We have turned into the laughing stock of the world.

I would go so far as to say “if some of the wars we have gotten into for no good reason and  the USA was victorious, that would help ease the bleeding but that is not the case. The USA has had “their ass handed to them” in each and every war we have idiotically gotten involved in. How many times does any country have to be humiliated and taken to the poor house before they learn their lesson? As the old saying goes ” an organization is only as good as it’s leaders”!

I find it inconceivable that the people running our country are that ignorant and out of touch to see the reality to continue making the same costly mistakes time after time, turning this once most powerful country on earth into a third world nation.

Ask the people in Detroit and the rest of the nation that are eating out of garbage cans if they agree our country should be taking care of the rest of the world and ignoring them.

These pictures are the tip of the iceberg. It is not war torn Iraq but Detroit, Michigan in the USA. There are hundreds of thousands of other places just like it in this country that the politicians are ignoring and turning a blind eye to.

Ever-day when their chauffeured  driven limos take these politicians/decision makers to work, all they see is what is Pennsylvanian Ave, the mansions they live in and have little to no regard for the way many of the citizens of this country are living.

I am sure that there is a very small percentage of politicians that care about the conditions of the country but they are out-numbered and out voted at every turn. Most of the people in office are a bunch of self-centered, self-serving, pampered individuals.

Today not tomorrow, every military person in the world should be brought home no matter where they are serving and close all of the “do little embassies’” around the globe.  I always maintain, “Charity begins at home”.

We have to remember “it is always about the money” and the politicians are always going to take care of themselves first.

There is one fact that stands out in my mind about the character and quality of the overpaid and under worked politicians that clearly demonstrates just where their priorities are.

When the bums in the $1,000.00 suits thought that the government was going to close down last year, they voted that their pay checks would not stop if that eventuated. No regard for the citizens of the country, only for themselves. If there is no other factor beside this one example, this demonstrates exactly where their priorities lie. It surely is not the American people. I compare them to the captains of the ship in Italy and the fairy boat in Korea that sank. Save themselves first.

It doesn’t  surprise me that their approval rating is negative only 78% – the other 22% of the people must be their relatives.

I am waiting to see what other dilemma the USA is going to get into next. I will bet on it.