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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (91893)3/27/2007 6:47:21 PM
From: American Spirit  Read Replies (1) of 173976
 
Bush never really sent our military to Afghanistan. That was a CIA run operation. Bush failed to give the CIA the military support they needed, which is why Bin ALden and so many others escaped. Then he withdrew most military assets from Afghanistan and sent almost everything to Iraq, which at the time had no terrorists to speak of, no connection to 9-11 and not even any of the huge stockpiles of WMD Bush and his people hyped us about.

The real sin of the Bushies in Iraq was not the size of the fighting force, it was the post-invasion planning. There doesn't seem to have been any at all. And since they dissed the UN and other allies and kept them out (wanting to hog all the oil for themselves) they doomed our troops to be overwhelmed.

They also failed to ancipate the revival of the old Sunni-Shia rivalry, and the fact that foreign fighters would start coming in, tempted by US targets on their own turf. Afterall the borders were left wide open. Plus they neglected to realize what a danger Iran might be if we freed their people (Shias), took our their enemy Saddam and then started threatening them with Axis Of Evil type slurs.

Just a case of total incompetence all around rooted in greed, arrogance, corruption, short-sightedness and incompetent cronyism. Many of the top people were appointed strictly because they were Bushie cronies, not because they were qualified to do anything.
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