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Never should have gone in the first place. America's that asshole that shows up at your party uninvited, drinks all your beer, pukes all over your furniture, smashes your stereo, steals your TV and bails like it ain't no thang.

We have no business in the middle east. If they had no oil, they would have no US troops, bottom fucking line. Notice we aren't jumping at the chance to free the Burmese people from their military overseers? You think if Cuba had oil, we wouldn't have bent the Castros over and fucked them right up their asses? How many African dictators run around willy nilly? How many of them did the gov't put in power? Just as many as they needed to to keep the oil flowing through their rich corporate sponsors.

One can make the argument that the gov't gave us all the good, righteous reasons for heading overseas and doing what they did. But when you take into account that the assholes overseeing those countries before the US came in provided relative stability and you look at the condition of those countries post-invasion, all that reasoning starts to fall apart.

If one dictator is bad, then all dictators are bad. They don't allow their people the 'freedom' that we Americans enjoy, so clearly they must be up to no good, yes? Why are we picking and choosing which ones to fight, and why are they all in the middle east?

Well said.

I agree with Duchess too. Looking at Iraq and Afghanistan, I think we'll be leaving them as fucked up as they were before.

There's been a story on CNN the past few days about a guy who trained Iraqi officers. He told his dad that he'd been threatened by the guy he was training and was told constantly that he (the U.S.) weren't wanted there. He predicted his own death and sure enough, the Iraqi officer shot him...and was subsequently released. The father doesn't know where the officer is--no justice for him. Here's a link if anyone is interested. Sad story.

http://newsroom.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/19...own-death/