What About Iraq?

Now that militants are taking over Iraq in a war hundreds of years old between opposing factions of Islam, the sacrifices of America's military personnel are turning into a wasted effort. Still, conservatives in the USA will be pinning this squarely on Democratic President Obama. If you believe such things, think about where Barack Obama was in 1990 when the first Republican President George Bush began this campaign. In 1990, Barack Obama had been elected as President of the Harvard Law Review. In October of 2002, Barack Obama gave a speech in Chicago opposing war with Iraq. Yet in 2003, Republican President and son of the first George Bush, George W. Bush started the second war in Iraq. So when the blame is shifted now to Barack Obama, just think about all of that.

Why is Iraq the hotbed of murder and human rights violations—when that was one reason Saddam Hussein was so hated? Saddam is gone now and there is no strong leader anymore. The leaders of the Iraqi army ran away when attacked by the al-Qaeda forces. These people have been killing each other for a long long time. We should have never gotten into that mess. And yet though he told us that in 2002, Barack Obama is being blamed for this. Even our nemesis Iran is fighting the extremists! Help me! I need a program! I don't know who we are mad at anymore! Even if House Speaker John Boehner says this is Obama's fault, don't think for a minute I believe that. I know the right-wing isn't satisfied with only one war (in Afghanistan). Well now they might get their wish. Only I have trouble with seeing those cute little brown-eyed children who get caught up in this whole mess that a lot of angry, idiotic adults have created in the name of religion and "freedom." Shame on all of them. They all make me sick.