IRAQ FIASCO

Now this is my own opinion about this fiasco. We attacked this country for no reason, other than greed. We weren’t good buddies with Iraq, especially after the gulf war incident in 1991, when we ran over to protect Bush 1’s friends in Kuwait and Saudi in their fight with Iraq. We left that country in a mess then also. Bush 2 and his friends wanted to conquer Iraq and take over the country. Bush and his buddies wanted to go into that country for their oil and they made any excuse they could to get there. They wanted nothing less that complete control. A lot of the guys that Saddam had kicked out of Iraq helped the Bush gang find excuses to go after Saddam. After the 9-11 attack they used that, but you know there was not an Iraqi in the bunch. Saddam did not like Osama bin Laden and he wasn’t anywhere in Iraq. Shows to go you!!! We are a gullible people to have believed the Village Idiot and his warmongering cohorts. Terrorist! Terrorist! And the majority of our politicians signed whatever that sucker put in front of them. Well we went and broke that country and now you think they ought to fix it. I don’t. I think every money grubbing SOB that went to that country to make money, all of Bush’s friends, Cheney’s affiliates and the big corporations that made money off this mess ought to pay for it.

These are quotes from an article called: “Who said the War would pay for itself. They did! Complied by Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky.

“Iraq is a very wealthy country. Enormous oil reserves. They can finance, largely finance the reconstruction of their own country. And I have no doubt that they will.”
Richard Perle, Chair, The Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board. July 11, 2002

“The likely economic effects (of a war in Iraq) would be relatively small….Under every plausible scenario, the negative effect will be quite small relative to the economic benefits.” Lawrence Lindsey, White House economic advisor. September 16, 2002

“It is unimaginable that the United States would have to contribute hundreds of billions of dollars and highly unlikely that we would have to contribute even tens of billions of dollars.” Kenneth Pollock, former director for Persian Gulf Affairs National Security Council. September 2002

“The cost of any intervention would be very small.”
Glenn Hubbard, White House economic advisor. October 2, 2002

“Iraq has tremendous resource that belong to the Iraqi people. And so there are a variety of means that Iraq has to be able to shoulder much of the burden for their own construction.” Ari Fleischer, White House press secretary. February 18, 2003

“When it comes to reconstruction, before we turn to the American taxpayer, we will turn first to the resources of the Iraqi government and the international community.”
Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense. March 27, 2003

“There is a lot of money to pay for this that doesn’t have to be US taxpayer money, and it starts with the assets of the Iraqi people. We are talking about a country that can finance its own reconstruction relatively soon.”
Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense testifying before the subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee. March 27, 2003

“The United States is very committed to helping Iraq recover from the conflict, but Iraq will require sustained aid.” Mitchell Daniels, Director White House Office of Management and Budget. April 21, 2003

“The Allies (have contributed) $14 billion in direct aid.”
Dick Cheney, vice presidential debate with Democratic candidate John Edwards. October 5, 2004

Actually only $13 billion was pledged, and on the date Cheney spoke only $1billion had arrived. As of October 28, 2007, the National Priorities Project estimated that the share of Iraq War costs that had been borne by American taxpayers exceeded $463 billion. –C.C.&V.N.

Where are these big mouth jerks now? Some are still messing around in politics shooting off their big mouth.