There was NO al qaeda in Iraq when this war started, 5 YEARS AGO.
Al qaeda central is located in Pakistan which Bush leaves alone. That's where Osama bin forgotten is. Those are the people who struck us on September 11 and we just let them be.
This is a terrible refugee situation now. And how many Iraqis have we let into our country (we caused this refugee problem). 850 so far. We have let in 25 times that number of Iranians, our supposed axis of evil enemy over that same time span. Bush's policies make no sense.
What is the policy? Give arms and ammo to Sunni al qaeda in al Anbar province (these are the people who have killed the most Americans fighting there) so they can attack Shia militias in the area?? Does that make sense?
The Iraqi legislature is going to take the whole month of August off, for vacation, while our men keep dying in their sandbox. If they don't care about their country why should we?
Is it a country? Or is it a religious civil war for control of a region, Sunni vs the majority Shia? Why has it taken so long to train these people? Marine bootcamp lasts what? 6 months? We've been training Iraqis for 5 years now. Hint: they don't want to be trained! Their loyalty is to their religion, not to their "nation". They'd just as soon let Americans die in their "war" .
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