American soldier Darrell Anderson talks about his experience in Iraq: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwwMF6biCJU&feature=related
Yep, and the result will be exactly the same. Iraq won't be stable until either all of America retreats, or every Iraqi is dead.
Without seeing the video - I can't right now - this read to me like an anti-war mock-up. Well - he's certainly anti-war, but he's real enough: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Anderson
I was reading the other day that with only 400 billion over a 40 year period the USA could be 100% energy sufficient suppling 90% of it's electricity by solar and this is NOT even accounting for any new inventions. YET that f*cking dick head Bush ran through a trillion in a war that no American could support winning. yeah, we could win if we decided to really start dropping bombs and gassing whole neighborhoods. But what the f*ck is the point in that? (a) then everyone is dead and no one was liberated (well in a sense they were - from this world) and (b) we'll still run out of oil sooner or later. My solution - pull OUT 100% buy the oil from the next Sunni strongman and start building solar panels.
Small problem Michael, it won't be a Sunni strongman in iraq if we pull out. It will be President Ahmadinejad. And with Iraq fully under his control the supposedly peaceful nuclear research will start along the lines that any educated person understands is actually a weapons program. We're not in Iraq for oil, or else we would be concentrating on the oilfields, not the population centers. We're there to help rebuild a nation into a strong ally. As for Darrell Anderson to me it sounds like just an asshole who found out war was hell and instead of just becoming a conscientious objecter decided to start spouting off made up bullshit. At least that is how the man comes off. He's still trying to be the cowboy hero, but he's flipped the script so that the enemy is the government, that way he won;t have to go back and do anything even remotely dangerous..
not in it for oil? sure we are. the powers that be (bush and cheney oil men to the bone) wanted the price of oil to go up so they invaded iraq to make sure the oil wouldn't hit the market.
Proof? All you have got is unsubstatiated bullshit on this. While yes it is probable, Iraqi oil has been on the market through chinese and japanese firms. It hasn;t made one dent in the oil price which is climbing becuase of the devalation of the dollar which actually is not the fault of Bush or Cheney. of course you'd know this if you paid attention to the news and made the connections.
I like how this fuckwit took it upon himself to offer these stories to the public years after the events allegedly occurred while he's a defendant in his own criminal case. If he actually did witness a crime taking place, he could have avoided shooting his credibility to shit by strolling into the office of the nearest JAG attorney as soon as possible so the event could be investigated and complicit parties held accountable. Also, nothing says CREDIBLE WITNESS like talking about being a former hoodrat.
The oil fields and infrastructure were the first things secured by American forces in Iraq. The Iraqi Sunni are now armed, and the Kurds of course, and the Saudis are right there, as is Syria and Turkey - Iran may be Iraq's major foreign influence after the US leaves, but President AJ is unlikely to be running Iran even by then, let alone Iraq.
Wouldn't that be becuase of simple location? We had to come in from some direction and the south seemed only logical. Also you have to secure a resource in order to cripple the enemies supply line. this is strategy 101 stuff. Once secured however we immediately began securing and attemtping to protect the population. The Iraqis are barely armed and woefully undertrained and inexperienced. Against Iran they have no chance. The Kurds are not even as effective as the Iraqi army and Syria and Turkey can be bought off. They know that Iran's main target is Israel and then other infidels.
