The End of the Bush Cheney Disaster in Iraq
Posted on 20. Dec, 2011 by Dr Rodrigue Tremblay in US
By Rodrigue Tremblay
"Just think of what happened after 9/11. Immediately before there was any assessment there was glee in the [Bush-Cheney] administration because now we can invade Iraq." Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman (R-Tex.) and 2012 Republican presidential candidate
“After the war [against Iraq] has ended, the United States will have to rebuild much more than the country of Iraq. We will have to rebuild America's image around the globe.” Sen. Robert Byrd, (D-W.Va), March 19, 2003
“Let me say this as plainly as I can: by August 31, 2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end… Through this period of transition, we will carry out further redeployments. And under the Status of Forces Agreement with the Iraqi government, I intend to remove all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of 2011.” President Barack Obama, Friday, February 27, 2009
The Obama administration officially put an end to the Iraq war [http://www.examiner.com/city-buzz-in-los-angeles/obama-offiically-ends-the-iraq-war] on Thursday December 15, 2011, close to nine years after the March 20, 2003 military invasion of Iraq, dubbed “shock-and-awe.”
I had not intended to comment on the end of this most unnecessary war, but since I wrote a book [http://www.amazon.com/New-American-Empire-Rodrigue-Tremblay/dp/0741418878/ref=sr_11_1/104-8428100-2298348?ie=UTF8] to explain how it all came about, I feel that I must say something.
Analysts have begun to describe this war, launched on false pretenses, as “the Biggest Mistake In American Military History.” [http://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthompson/2011/12/15/the-biggest-mistake-in-american-military-history/]
Indeed, beginning right after 9/11 and throughout 2002, the Bush-Cheney administration had its mind firmly set to invade Iraq military, and no fact, law or argument could deter it from doing so.
In that, it was following the blueprint that neocons and pro-Israel "Likudniks" under the leadership of Paul Wolfowitz (Bush's future deputy secretary of defense) and Lewis "Scooter" Libby (Cheney’s future chief of staff) had drafted in 2000 under the auspices of “The Project for the New American Century”, in a report entitled "Rebuilding America's Defenses, Strategy: Forces and Resources For a New Century". [http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf]
This was a neo-conservative imperial project that became officially the “Bush Doctrine”. [] Its goal was to project, as far as possible into the future, the "unipolar advantageous position" that the United States inherited after the break-up of the Soviet Union, in December 1991.
It was really a hubristic and bare-knuckle strategy of world hegemony, based upon unilateral interventionism—militarily, economically and politically—by the U.S. It was an "America First" doctrine, based not upon modern international law, but rather on a solipsistic approach to American interests and the elementary principle of brute force. In fact, it was a giant step backward that could have consequences for decades to come.
In the book that I wrote in 2003 to denounce such a suicidal shift in American foreign policy (see: The New American Empire), [] I pointed out that “the 'Bush Doctrine' was a near identical reenactment of the infamous 1968 Soviet Union's 'Brezhnev Doctrine', which …paved the way for the [Soviet] invasion Afghanistan in 1979.” Ultimately, it also led to the demise of the Soviet Union.
Contrary to what some still think, the war against Iraq did not arise from a generous desire to promote democracy around the world. In fact, “spreading democracy” was little more than a domestic war propaganda slogan.
After the events of 9/11, the policy was to divert the war against international terrorism and the al Qaeda network, and turn it towards the real big prize, i.e. Iraq, its armaments and its oil. In the spirit of the newly designed “Bush Doctrine”, it was obvious that the war against international terrorism offered a strategic opportunity to promote American interests around the world.
Nobody can understand why so many lies, so many distortions and so many artifices were used by the Bush-Cheney administration and its sycophants in the media to justify the illegal invasion of Iraq, a country that had no connection to 9/11 whatsoever, if one does not understand the policy that prepared it.
But here we are with that most unnecessary war and what are the results?
This is a war that destroyed a country, killed hundreds of thousands of its inhabitants and drove 4,500 American soldiers to their death and severely injured 30,000 [http://www.click2houston.com/news/Last-U-S-troops-exit-Iraq/-/1735978/5983476/-/format/rss_2.0/-/cnt3xw/-/index.html] more.
This was a war that did not improve U.S. National Security to any extent, because it has now made Islamist Iran the primary influence in the Middle East region.
Moreover, this is a war that seriously diminished the United States' global credibility and moral posture [http://www.apsanet.org/media/PDFs/APSAUSStandingShortFinal.pdf] around the world.
Finally, this is a war that has also contributed in breaking the U.S. economy, [] because it caused the U.S. government's fiscal deficit to spiral out of control and because that deficit was mainly financed with foreign debt.
All considered, except for the war profiteers [http://www.businesspundit.com/the-25-most-vicious-iraq-war-profiteers/] who filled their pockets, this so-called Iraq war was an unmitigated disaster.
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Rehmat
21. Dec, 2011
"And the winner is Iran," Lord David Owen, former British Foreign Secretary.
http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/lord-owen-iran-is-the-most-powerful-country-in-the-region/
Afriq
22. Dec, 2011
Um, lets see Iran the winner?
Nay me thinks not. the britshits are the most evil, vile barbarians, read their insane savage history.
The comment below is more accurate. the most lucrative contracts have been won by the fucking ugly whore the bloody bshiters her majesty slaughter gov.
Now why would the ugly royal whore win such lucrative contracts if Iran won?
Do not parrot mossad/raw/mi5/6/7/.0000BS/cia/rita trans katz SITE mantra. Use your intelligence. Iran has as a head of state an individual who has a degree. If they had ANY control, they would have sought to UNITE the Muslims as apposed to vilary's uneducated hoodlum the sword dancer eunuch GCC+ cursed house of saud (Allah destroy them ALL).
Do not put the disgusting revolting insane savage Muslim brotherhood with Iran – the difference is extremely vast. the writer has used islamist a word that the west uses as its asset -to gain or to destroy. but we know them and their mossad experts of nothing rita katz bullshiters
pazzums
21. Dec, 2011
Yes ! The US is "leaving "Iraq. Sort of…The winner is Blackwater in it's 3rd name change.Now Blackwater is called ACADEMI they will have 15,000 merc's in Iraq who can commit all the war crimes they want because they never signed the Geneva Convention! So the dog and pony show is that "we"are leaving and Obama is a hero ! In reality though there won't be much of a changebecause now Hillary's little State Department will be in charge of the (Blackwater)ACADEMI "privatized contractors".Unfortunately BILLIONS of dollars of equipment is being left behind and Blackwater gets it for FREE!!!!!!!!!! Yippee! Blackwater sure is pretty lucky! A Blackwater goon gets a minimum of $200,000 a year.Others make more.Quarter million half million and all they can steal! So $200,000 a year x 15,000 goons. On top of that? They get FREE US MILITARY Equipment because it's just rummage sale junk beccause the US soldiers are coming home so we have to give the equipment away.But cheer up because it all won't go to Blackwater,some will go to the locals at ROCK BOTTOM prices because it's just um,junk now.Yeah ! That's it .It's just junk now.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/dec/15/gear-galore-left-in-iraq-as-last-troops-pull-out/?page=all
Hillary has her own Blackwater army of 15,000+ and no one will even pay attention.Who pays for that? You do!Lets rejoice ! hehehehe I hope our military will have enough equipment after we leave it all there for free.Maybe we'll have to buy them some more! Probably,and they will say they urgently need to spend for YOUR defense because we gave all our Iraq equipment away and now the military needs some new stuff from the Defense Contractors.Looks like a sucker play to me.
samel
21. Dec, 2011
The winner is not Iran but Israel.
Afriq
22. Dec, 2011
britshit, US, france, italy the revolting EU
the whole international community of fucking COWARDS
None had the balls to say "fuck/piss/sod off"
may they ALL suffer to the rest of their parasitic lives!
Ulugh Beg
21. Dec, 2011
Pakistan, North Korea and China have formed a triumvirate that will rule the world. Our missiles will circle the globe, and our weapons will cause the unholy Jew-Hindu-Christian shiver in dread.
Moha
21. Dec, 2011
is it really over ? depleted uranium can still kill babies for thousands of years and israel is all over the place from dubai to kurdistan, it will be over when that european colony of satanists and luceferians is obliterated from the middle east once and for good
robert shaw
29. Jan, 2012
cheney, most vile beast every to walk the face the planet. bush follows closely behind.