iraq
The good and bad of Trump's recent foreign policy
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 04/07/2020 - 3:19pmWhile everyone is focused on the pandemic, several extremely important developments have happened in recent weeks that are being mostly overlooked.
We're going to war in Iraq. Again.
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 03/28/2020 - 3:48pmIf there's one thing America knows its how to bomb Iraq.
U.S. troops still dying in Iraq on this seventeenth anniversary of Iraq War
Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 03/19/2020 - 9:57pmSeventeen years ago, on 19 March 2003, the US invaded Iraq.
Five coalition servicemen died this past week in Iraq, four of them were Americans.
We are officially occupying Iraq, again
Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 01/10/2020 - 12:59pmPity the poor Iraqis. They dared to officially ask us to leave their nation today. They even asked nicely.
No Donald. It's barely even begun
Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 01/08/2020 - 6:00pmOur ADD President doesn't understand that something as subtle as long-term strategy and goals is a thing. The same applies to his fan base.
Have we gotten even dumber in the last 17 years?
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 01/07/2020 - 12:22pm"History repeats; the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce."
- Karl Marx
Judith Miller, Karl Rove, Tom Friedman, Joe Lieberman have all crawled out from whatever rocks they were hiding under to step in front of TV cameras and tell us how wonderful a war with Iran will be.
Idaho veterans resolve to Bring Our Troops Home
Submitted by Linda Wood on Tue, 01/07/2020 - 11:41amIdaho veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars initiate two resolutions to Bring Our Troops Home:
https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2020/01/06/idaho-republican-party-passes-an...
Idaho Republican Party Passes Antiwar Resolutions
Idaho GOP pressures Sen. Risch: Bring our troops home, expose Afghan war corruption, follow Constitution
Iraq, Iran, and Venezuela - a common thread
Submitted by bondibox on Mon, 01/06/2020 - 6:49amIn 2000, Iraq switched away from selling oil for dollars, to selling oil for Euros. Then we went to war with Iraq.
Syria is trying to build a competing pipeline to oil to the European market. So we went to war in Syria.
In 2019, Venezuela and Iran created petro cryptocurrencies to use for oil trade. Now we're going to war with Iran. I suppose Venezuela was a little too close to home for an actual invasion, but we came close, didn't we?
Trump the Master Negotiator
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sun, 01/05/2020 - 10:21pmAs expected Iraq voted to kick out U.S. troops.
Early fallout from Soleimani assassination is all bad
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 01/04/2020 - 12:58pmThe Iranians will strike back eventually, but the costs are already adding up.
We've long since left international law behind.
Russia and China have to think "Could we be next?"
War with Iran just started
Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 01/03/2020 - 10:06am
I'm going to update this essay later. This should get things rolling for now.
Iraq, Lies, and the Drums Of War
Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 01/02/2020 - 3:42pmBoth Washington and the news media are bending over backwards to drum up support for a war with Iran. In the proud tradition of incubator babies and yellowcake, they are both twisting the facts and outright lying. The further you go to the right-wing of the news media, the bigger and more belligerent the lies.
First of all, let's look at some examples.
This will not turn out well
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 12/31/2019 - 3:28pm
It's complicated.
We're back to square one in Iraq
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sun, 12/29/2019 - 4:54pmThe only thing that has changed in eight years is the size of the conflict.
