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To: koan who wrote (481030)	10/8/2021 12:50:49 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (3) of 540706

When the Bush-Cheney cretins were planning to invade Iraq, there were about 25 million people. General Eric Shinseki said that they would need about 500,000 troops to keep the peace there. He was treated derisively by that moronic administration that convinced themselves that the Iraqis would dance in the streets and accept Chalabi as their leaders--after all, he was a Shia! Yay! One of them! The Bush-Cheney people found some generals to overrule Shinseki and some DoD intel people to overrule the CIA intel people and off they went into Iraq to -- wait for it! -- establish democracy in the mideast, get rid of all of the WMDs that Saddam was hiding, and finally bring peace to that troubled area and the cleverest part of it all was that it would pay for itself! Yay!! Generals said it would work, so it must work! Those effing idiots were as stupid as progressives. They all pretend that they have the answer! The main difference is that the progressives actually believe that they have it while people like Bush-Cheney people believe that they can fool everyone into believing that they have the answer while they sneak the wealth out the back door into their pockets. The Bush-Cheny people thought they could pacify 25m Iraqis with less thank a quarter million troops. Afghanistan has something like 40 million people and some friggin general says, oh we only need 2500 troops. Or maybe 5000 troops. Or maybe 20,000 troops. It doesn't matter what the number is. If they aren't willing to kill minimally hundreds of thousands of people and more likely several million people and sustain 10s of thousands of US casualities, then walking into an Afghan civil war is nuts. Crazy. Idiot. The US lost its chance to maybe (emphasize that word!) change a part of that war torn country when the Bush-Cheney people decided that Iraq was a far tastier target. Hell, we can't even change the minds of 10s of millions of Americans about Trump and the Rs, yet people like Koan somehow believe we can transform a poor uneducated Muslim society much of which is stuck in the 15th century.

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