The damn Sunday morning talking heads just can’t get off the warmonger drug. It seems that none of them want to realize or admit that the men who get us into a war with Iraq are not the experts they should be going to for advice on how to get out or rather stay out of a new one. There would have been no Iraq problem if Bush and Cheney and their coterie of butt boys hadn’t lied us into that war. For that they should be on trail for war crimes. Instead they are all over the tube attacking the administration that they left holding the bag, and telling us how it’s all Obama’s fault that the mess they created exists. It’s Brenner, Rove and Rumsfeld’s fault and no one else’s.
Cheney was on This Week, a major network faux pas, when you consider he should be in federal lockup. He was busy attacking Obama and all his policies in Iraq; when he was asked a simple question by John Karl. “What would you do in Iraq?”
This set Cheney off on a rant about everything in the world except Iraq. When Karl tried to get back to the original question.
“You have attacked Obama about his current policy. What would you do?”
The degenerate idiot had no answer so he went on to bullshit about everything else and ended up on Pakistan. Still, Karl pressed him to answer the question, about what he would do in Iraq. Cheney tried twice to weasel out but Karl, to his credit, pressed for an answer. Cheney looked like exactly what he was at that moment, a rat caught in a trap and finally admitted that there are no good, easy answers, making the point again that he had been lying all along about everything, but most especially about what he and his cabal of traitors did by lying us into that war in the first place.
Karl then went on to call Cheney on his statement about Obama; that never has a president been so wrong about so much that hurt so many, after which he showed TV footage of Cheney making one wrong prediction after another, proving that he has been the one who has been wrong about just about everything that he said in reference to the Iraq war. Karl then quotes Rand Paul in stating that the neocons have been so wrong abut so much that there is no reason for any intelligent person to listen to any of them anymore.
In answer Cheney again wanders off to every other trouble spot in the world. If this senile old fool is to believed, we aren’t even safe from Lichtenstein. It was a pathetic performance and in his continued attack, Cheney doesn’t seem to have any realization of the fact that it was his administration that left us with problems all over the world and that it is actually Obama’s that is trying to solve all those problems even though he still has to fight through the constant interference being created by what’s left of Cheney’s neocons.
Cheney continues to rave on, seemingly without any real idea of what is actually going on. He is the madman in the middle of the desert cursing at the sun, screaming about aliens from other planets, not understanding that he can’t get back to the asylum because he ate the tires off his own car..
It is really time to put Cheney away someplace safe. He is no longer a functioning intellect and should not be allowed to influence the simple minds that still see a reason to pay attention to what drivel he is spewing. The man who gave this guy his heart must be spinning in his grave. Even Pat Buchanan, conservative deluxe, sees what a disaster Bush/Cheney created and now are trying to crawl out from under.
Of course, all the talking heads spent the day debating Iraq policy, but needless to say, none had a serious solution. Many wanted to bomb ISIS, others wanted to get a political solution before a group of leaders. The reality is that none of these will work. As soon as we bomb ISIS we become the Shiite air force. Not our job! In addition, there is no political solution as long as one side or the other is winning. Winners don’t go to the table to negotiate, certainly not these feudal tribesmen. What we have to do is back off. It doesn’t look like ISIS has the wherewithal to grab Bagdad. We have to just let the contending forces wear down to a point where they are ready to stop shooting. That’s when you can begin the negotiations.
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There has been a lot of comment about the 300 special forces men that Obama sent in. They are probably more than anything else to protect the thousand odd people we have there at the embassy but they also could act as spotters for air units should the need occur.
Mike McCaul R-Texas is fast catching up with John McCain, Peter King and Mike Rogers as the Republican warmongering mouths that roared. He was on the tube again rattling on about how many ways we should start shooting. Okay Mike, at who? ISIS, your target du jour got that way because you and your war mongering buddies like John McCain badgered the President into giving them arms when they were fighting Assad in Syria. You didn’t care who we armed then as long as there was a fight. Well you got your fight. They weren’t good enough to beat Assad so now they are in Iraq kicking the shit out of Maliki, another of the right’s premier choices.
Maybe if we’d just laid back and let Assad kick the crap out of them in Syria, they wouldn’t be a problem now in Iraq. The problem all over the Middle East is that we are fueled by too many assholes who just want to fight, anyone, anywhere no matter what. So we armed ISIS in Syria and now here they are in Iraq, using our arms and making is look like the fools we are.
The only working theory is to let the war grind down and then to try and make a tripartite division of Iraq and maybe including parts of Syria. But how is that to work? The only thing valuable in Iraq is the oil. Mort Zuckerman who obviously has a great deal of his wealth invested in big oil, talks about it and says that it is valuable to the Chinese, the US and Britain. Well, it’s surely valuable to the Chinese who are getting most of it but the only value to us is to the oil companies, not to the people of our country. We aren’t currently getting any oil from Iraq, it’s mostly going to China but U.S. and Brit oil companies are pumping a shitload of it to China. Are we supposed to get into a war so we can expand BP and Exxon’s bottom line? I think not.
The problem is that all the oil is in the north where the Kurds hold power and in the south where the Shiites hold power and there’s nothing in the middle where the Sunni’s are now holding power. That doesn’t make for a good negotiating profile.
We must make a deal with Iran to get rid of Maliki. The Sunnis will never trust him and he isn’t the man to do the right thing or keep his word.
Richard Clark says that it is not our job to fix the Middle East. It’s our job to advance our interests and those interests are not those of big oil or any of the existing nations that inhabit that area of the globe. Our interest in this area is simply to stop or limit terrorist activities that can be traveled to our shores. Even if ISIS manages to erect the terrorist state that all the neocons are currently whining about we have the means to contain them just like we are containing the current terrorist states in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Libya, Yemen and North Korea. Does anyone of sound mind really think that an ISIS controlled area in Iraq will be any more deadly than all the aforementioned states that already exist?