Post by DoDPost by ClavePost by DoDPost by ClaveSo you'd prefer that he'd left our troops in there to stand trial for
war crimes.
No.... the top generals all said that could have been negotiated
through..
All of them, eh? I'd sure like to see your source for that.
Watching the news....
"Watching the news"?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
You know, I "heard" that Trump's daughter is pregnant with his child.
Post by DoDOne of the ideas floated IIRC was giving soldiers the
immunity of diplomats..
"One of the ideas floated . . . " Give me a break. You don't know
shit and can't cite your claim. You're even too lazy to do a google
search for it and find credible cites.
Such an idea wouldn't even be legal and if it was it *still* wouldn't
work. For a diplomat to claim immunity, he must be *accredited* as a
diplomat by the country he's assigned in. Do you really think Maliki
was going to give blanket diplomatic immunity to 50,000 us troops.
Not to mention, the whole problem was we wanted immunity for our
troops and Iran wasn't willing to let Maliki give it to us.
Iow, your claim is full of shit.
Post by DoDPost by ClaveSo what do you think a prolonged occupation would have accomplished? ISIS
would not have been prevented.
The left always says that ISIS was formed during the Bush admin....
The left never said that. I never head it.
Post by DoDNow we
are thinking that it was formed
in the Obama admin? Wish we could make up our minds, sigh.... Anyways,
military commanders were saying that
we had great intel going on until the end...
And Bush said we had great intel before the beginning . . .
Post by DoDIn fact that is why A Q quit
sending reinforcements to Iraq because they
would get whacked right away... Definitely ISIS couldn't have formed the way
it did, if we kept a residual force...
How would a residual force in Iraq have prevented ISIS from forming IN
SYRIA?
Post by DoDFor
sure they wouldn't have billions of our dollars in the form of humvees
etc...
Those were given to Iraq for it's military. Baghdad have that
equipment to ISIS.
Post by DoDI have also read that Maliki talked tough
in the open, but behind closed doors he wanted a residual force.....
He was as concerned as anybody about being unable to control the
rebellious Sunnis and he was right. But by then, Teheran was calling
the shots and Maliki had to do as he was told.
Post by DoDRemember it was a campaign promise of Obama
to get us out of Iraq altogether.....
And the voters overwhelmingly agreed with him. The GOP lost first,
the Congress, and then the Presidency over Bush's incompetence in
Iraq. And here's another dumb as a post Republican saying we should
have stayed? Jesus fucking Christ!
Post by DoDIt makes sense that he would use any
excuse... How long were we in Germany and
Japan after WW2? Oops... we are still in both places....
You're stuck in a conflict think nearly a century old. Germany and
Japan were vanquished foes in a clear war between nation states. Those
rules don't apply here. Our soldiers aren't being shot down in the
streets by snipers or being killed and maimed by roadside IEDs.
Nothing dumber than a conservative hawk who doesn't even have the
balls to enlist.
Swill
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S. E. Cupp has characterized Trump as wearing the Republican party
like a rented tuxedo. When the prom is over, it's going to end up on
the floor with the liquor stains and cigarette butts.