being globally eugrnocided
accounting equation diff
thermo reaction accountability
speciel consciousness lasts transgenerationally longer thrn their ignorance redundency attempts to may
tch such. murder all. troony gap its leader. kos. tard trying to fake position 100.00% hierarchy gene pool
legit on the same wikipedia article that you got that image from, straight from dick cheny
>I would guess if we had gone in there, we would still have forces in Baghdad today. We'd be running the country. We would not have been able to get everybody out and bring everybody home.
With Vietnam fresh on erveryones minds they were afraid of commitment to a longer war
Frankly the US was lucky the second time around that the Iranians (eventually) pitched in with getting the militias behind the new government - in their own interests for a majoritarian Shi'ite puppet, of course, but it at least gave the US the chance to pull out with face intact.
A few rockets chucked haphazardly at American bases by some militias every few months is a small price to pay compared to 2004-2009 or 2014-2017.
If it hadn't been for the Iranians backing AQI and ruining every attempt to build a functional Iraqi government, 2004-2009 and 2014-2017 wouldn't have happened.
Particularly 2014, given that the Iranians kicked the US out of the country in 2011 and directly caused ISIS to take over half the country.
And it was the Iranians putting their backs behind the militias that became the PMF that ended 2004-2009, and PMFs that prevented the collapse of the Iraqi Army in 2014 from becoming a complete collapse of the country. Yes, Iran helped cause the problems in the first place, but so did the US in blacklisting all ba'athists from the governments in 2003 and then putting all their eggs behind a sectarian like Al-Maliki, who alienated the few Sunnis that were willing to work with the new government. >Particularly 2014, given that the Iranians kicked the US out of the country in 2011 and directly caused ISIS to take over half the country.
The US did as much to kick the US out of the country, if not more; it was the Obama administration that accelerated the pullout and put an end to the surge. >and directly caused ISIS to take over half the country.
and ISIS would have taken over the other half of the country outside of Iraqi Kurdistan if the PMF didn't act as bullet sponges until and after the American forces returned.
Saddam signed an agreement that he would pay restitutions, cease production of WMD, open faculties up to inspection and enact political reforms. Most of the Arab countries wanted him left in power but contained. He then violated all his agreements.
>One of the main concerns in the Western world was the significant threat Iraq posed to Saudi Arabia. Following Kuwait's conquest, the Iraqi Army was within easy striking distance of Saudi oil fields. Control of these fields, along with Kuwaiti and Iraqi reserves, would have given Saddam control over the majority of the world's oil reserves. Iraq also had a number of grievances with Saudi Arabia. The Saudis had lent Iraq some 26 billion dollars during its war with Iran. The Saudis had backed Iraq in that war, as they feared the influence of Shia Iran's Islamic revolution on its own Shia minority. After the war, Saddam felt he should not have to repay the loans due to the help he had given the Saudis by fighting Iran.
Soon after his conquest of Kuwait, Saddam began verbally attacking the Saudis. He argued that the US-supported Saudi state was an illegitimate and unworthy guardian of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. He combined the language of the Islamist groups that had recently fought in Afghanistan with the rhetoric Iran had long used to attack the Saudis.[105]
Acting on the Carter Doctrine policy, and out of fear the Iraqi Army could launch an invasion of Saudi Arabia, US President George H. W. Bush quickly announced that the US would launch a "wholly defensive" mission to prevent Iraq from invading Saudi Arabia, under the codename Operation Desert Shield. The operation began on 7 August 1990, when US troops were sent to Saudi Arabia, due also to the request of its monarch, King Fahd, who had earlier called for US military assistance.[69] This "wholly defensive" doctrine was quickly abandoned when, on 8 August, Iraq declared Kuwait to be Iraq's 19th province and Saddam named his cousin, Ali Hassan Al-Majid, as its military-governor.[106]
because the US completed all its goals in the first gulf war >Iraq kicked out of kuwait >Sadamn was beyond btfo'd >Iraqi army devastated to the point its no longer a real threat >US got to show off to the world
there was no point in trying to drag out the war since and Bush senior knew this which is why he ended it there, even when the hopes of Sadamn getting couped never panned out the other stuff stated before was still true so no point in trying to change it until Bush jr went full moron
zog wars demand zog logic and approval.
America lost the gulf war.
All 300 replies below are mentally moronic.
being globally eugrnocided
accounting equation diff
thermo reaction accountability
speciel consciousness lasts transgenerationally longer thrn their ignorance redundency attempts to may
tch such. murder all. troony gap its leader. kos. tard trying to fake position 100.00% hierarchy gene pool
What does this mean? Can you repeat this but in English?
see why u were killed yet
legit on the same wikipedia article that you got that image from, straight from dick cheny
>I would guess if we had gone in there, we would still have forces in Baghdad today. We'd be running the country. We would not have been able to get everybody out and bring everybody home.
tah-dah predicted the future
Frankly the US was lucky the second time around that the Iranians (eventually) pitched in with getting the militias behind the new government - in their own interests for a majoritarian Shi'ite puppet, of course, but it at least gave the US the chance to pull out with face intact.
A few rockets chucked haphazardly at American bases by some militias every few months is a small price to pay compared to 2004-2009 or 2014-2017.
If it hadn't been for the Iranians backing AQI and ruining every attempt to build a functional Iraqi government, 2004-2009 and 2014-2017 wouldn't have happened.
Particularly 2014, given that the Iranians kicked the US out of the country in 2011 and directly caused ISIS to take over half the country.
And it was the Iranians putting their backs behind the militias that became the PMF that ended 2004-2009, and PMFs that prevented the collapse of the Iraqi Army in 2014 from becoming a complete collapse of the country. Yes, Iran helped cause the problems in the first place, but so did the US in blacklisting all ba'athists from the governments in 2003 and then putting all their eggs behind a sectarian like Al-Maliki, who alienated the few Sunnis that were willing to work with the new government.
>Particularly 2014, given that the Iranians kicked the US out of the country in 2011 and directly caused ISIS to take over half the country.
The US did as much to kick the US out of the country, if not more; it was the Obama administration that accelerated the pullout and put an end to the surge.
>and directly caused ISIS to take over half the country.
and ISIS would have taken over the other half of the country outside of Iraqi Kurdistan if the PMF didn't act as bullet sponges until and after the American forces returned.
Saddam signed an agreement that he would pay restitutions, cease production of WMD, open faculties up to inspection and enact political reforms. Most of the Arab countries wanted him left in power but contained. He then violated all his agreements.
Because they wanted to sell some DLC in 2003
With Vietnam fresh on erveryones minds they were afraid of commitment to a longer war
The DoD ordered 20,000 bodybags for the Gulf War. Yes they were still very spooked from Vietnam and had no idea what would happen.
They got paid by the Saudis to halt the Kuwait invasion, not to kill Saddam. That would've cost more.
Why did the Saudis want the Kuwait invasion halted?
>One of the main concerns in the Western world was the significant threat Iraq posed to Saudi Arabia. Following Kuwait's conquest, the Iraqi Army was within easy striking distance of Saudi oil fields. Control of these fields, along with Kuwaiti and Iraqi reserves, would have given Saddam control over the majority of the world's oil reserves. Iraq also had a number of grievances with Saudi Arabia. The Saudis had lent Iraq some 26 billion dollars during its war with Iran. The Saudis had backed Iraq in that war, as they feared the influence of Shia Iran's Islamic revolution on its own Shia minority. After the war, Saddam felt he should not have to repay the loans due to the help he had given the Saudis by fighting Iran.
Soon after his conquest of Kuwait, Saddam began verbally attacking the Saudis. He argued that the US-supported Saudi state was an illegitimate and unworthy guardian of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. He combined the language of the Islamist groups that had recently fought in Afghanistan with the rhetoric Iran had long used to attack the Saudis.[105]
Acting on the Carter Doctrine policy, and out of fear the Iraqi Army could launch an invasion of Saudi Arabia, US President George H. W. Bush quickly announced that the US would launch a "wholly defensive" mission to prevent Iraq from invading Saudi Arabia, under the codename Operation Desert Shield. The operation began on 7 August 1990, when US troops were sent to Saudi Arabia, due also to the request of its monarch, King Fahd, who had earlier called for US military assistance.[69] This "wholly defensive" doctrine was quickly abandoned when, on 8 August, Iraq declared Kuwait to be Iraq's 19th province and Saddam named his cousin, Ali Hassan Al-Majid, as its military-governor.[106]
White House unironically believed the intel about WMDs and the power of the Revolutionary Guard
Or H W wasn’t moronic and knew that invading Iraq wouldn’t go the way neocons thought it would
Sand Black folk got raped and occupied, get over it
>Sand Black folk got raped and occupied, get over it
The kuwaties? I agree we should've gotten over it.
a continuing question. we also should have nuked Moscow 50 times between 1945 and '47 and left them in the Stone Age, but zogs gonna zog
because the US completed all its goals in the first gulf war
>Iraq kicked out of kuwait
>Sadamn was beyond btfo'd
>Iraqi army devastated to the point its no longer a real threat
>US got to show off to the world
there was no point in trying to drag out the war since and Bush senior knew this which is why he ended it there, even when the hopes of Sadamn getting couped never panned out the other stuff stated before was still true so no point in trying to change it until Bush jr went full moron
>usgay
>americancelled
>americanned
>americancer