The year 2003, when the Americans invaded Iraq, often echoes in 2010
BAGHDAD — The invasion of Iraq, occupation and tumult that followed were called Operation Iraqi Freedom back then. It will be named New Dawn on Wednesday.
But America’s attempt to bring closure to an unpopular war has collided with a disconnect familiar since 2003: the charts and trend lines offered by American officials never seem to capture the intangible that has so often shaped the pivots in the war in Iraq.
Call it the mood. And the country, seemingly forever unsettled and unhappy, is having a slew of bad days.
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now, what if russia invaded us saying we had weapons of mass destruction and harbored terrorists and killed our president...
ReplyDeletewould they be so far off? as it stands right now, what makes us so different from the iraq dictator?
i bet the media would throw a pitch-fit about how we were invaded.
When ramping up public opinion for the war, conservatives touted muslims as peace-loving people who yearned for democracy and simply needed help getying out from under Saddam. Now you say muslims are all murderous zealots bent on destroying the world. Which is it?
ReplyDeleteI had the honor and privlidge to go play in the big sandbox the first time around - at that time, there was a clear mission focus and sense of purpose to those of us who were there. Although we all felt we should have put that madman out of his misery then, we expressly knew what we were there for. Talking to vets who chewed some of the same sand, so to speak, this second time around none of that was present - except the honor and personal sacrafice of those who ansered the call. To my brothers and sisters at arms, welcome home, and job well done.
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ReplyDeleteglad to have ya back. and thank you!
We got rid of a dictator who invaded his neighbors,exterminated his own people and have established a foot hold in the unstable middle east. I would rather fight the war there than here.
ReplyDelete730....North korea is arguably a much bigger problem than Iraq...when we gonna do them?
ReplyDelete7:30, been asleep the last 30 years? Who do you think supported him in all of those matters? And now you expect the people to be in love with the US
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