Comments on: Victor Davis Hanson On Iraq http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/05/27/victor-davis-hanson-on-iraq/ Summum nec metuas diem, nec optes - Marcus Valerius Martialis Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:19:31 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Gaius http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/05/27/victor-davis-hanson-on-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-3710 Gaius Mon, 29 May 2006 17:40:21 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/05/27/victor-davis-hanson-on-iraq/#comment-3710 Are you always so chipper? Are you always so chipper?

]]> By: Jim O'Hara http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/05/27/victor-davis-hanson-on-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-3709 Jim O'Hara Mon, 29 May 2006 17:28:02 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/05/27/victor-davis-hanson-on-iraq/#comment-3709 This article could have been written by a Keynesian economist or a left-wing spin doctor trying to sell a big government aid program. The law of unintended consequences is completely absent from the Henson's analysis. In other words, the negative effects of our actions in the region is completely absent from the analysis. Do you remember that right after 9/11, Iran's President deplored the attack on the WTC and offered us the use of Iran's air bases to strike at the Taliban? But we alienated Iran's government and the Iranians by invading a neighboring country against the wishes of UN and other Arab countries. Post Iraq invasion the Iranian people elected fanatics who spoke out again the United States. Unintended consequence. The "strategic error" of not toppling Saddam in Gulf War I was nothing of the sort, as Bush Sr. explained in Time Magazine in 1998: http://www.thememoryhole.org/mil/bushsr-iraq.htm Recall that Bush Sr. also warned his son not to invade Iraq without UN backing; advice that "W" ignored. Read what Bush Sr. predicted would happen if we took out Saddam. Read the current headlines. Reflect on the wisdom of Bush Sr. Iraq has not been the cakewalk that we were told it would be. As Iraq turns into a divided Shiite Iran 2.0, Kurdistan, and economically homeless Sunnis, the same disinformation machine that convinced Americans we needed to invade Iraq is smearing Iran in preparation for the next invasion. I am no fan of the fanatics that have been DEMOCRATICALLY elected into power in Iran, but recognize that by the infidel meddling in the Holy Land (read: occupation of Iraq), we have set off a cascade of events. Unintended consequences. Another unintended consequence - Saddam wouldn't have $70/barrel oil right now, because our destabilization of the region has doubled the price of oil. Saddam used Willy Pete on the Kurds and it was identified as a chemical weapon (used to a .mil link to this, but I see it's been removed), but when we use it against people in Fallujah, it's conventional. Saddam tortured Iraqis and this was a reason to depose him - You might want to check in the basements of the Ministry of Information in Iraq, where the current government has been caught torturing prisoners. Tortured bodies turn up daily in Baghdad. Unintended consequences. I think it's sad that you're trying to tie Memorial Day, which honors those men and women who have fought to keep American free, as a propaganda piece for the invasion of Iraq. Jim This article could have been written by a Keynesian economist or a left-wing spin doctor trying to sell a big government aid program. The law of unintended consequences is completely absent from the Henson’s analysis. In other words, the negative effects of our actions in the region is completely absent from the analysis.

Do you remember that right after 9/11, Iran’s President deplored the attack on the WTC and offered us the use of Iran’s air bases to strike at the Taliban? But we alienated Iran’s government and the Iranians by invading a neighboring country against the wishes of UN and other Arab countries. Post Iraq invasion the Iranian people elected fanatics who spoke out again the United States. Unintended consequence.

The “strategic error” of not toppling Saddam in Gulf War I was nothing of the sort, as Bush Sr. explained in Time Magazine in 1998: http://www.thememoryhole.org/mil/bushsr-iraq.htm Recall that Bush Sr. also warned his son not to invade Iraq without UN backing; advice that “W” ignored. Read what Bush Sr. predicted would happen if we took out Saddam. Read the current headlines. Reflect on the wisdom of Bush Sr.

Iraq has not been the cakewalk that we were told it would be. As Iraq turns into a divided Shiite Iran 2.0, Kurdistan, and economically homeless Sunnis, the same disinformation machine that convinced Americans we needed to invade Iraq is smearing Iran in preparation for the next invasion. I am no fan of the fanatics that have been DEMOCRATICALLY elected into power in Iran, but recognize that by the infidel meddling in the Holy Land (read: occupation of Iraq), we have set off a cascade of events. Unintended consequences.

Another unintended consequence – Saddam wouldn’t have $70/barrel oil right now, because our destabilization of the region has doubled the price of oil.

Saddam used Willy Pete on the Kurds and it was identified as a chemical weapon (used to a .mil link to this, but I see it’s been removed), but when we use it against people in Fallujah, it’s conventional. Saddam tortured Iraqis and this was a reason to depose him – You might want to check in the basements of the Ministry of Information in Iraq, where the current government has been caught torturing prisoners. Tortured bodies turn up daily in Baghdad. Unintended consequences.

I think it’s sad that you’re trying to tie Memorial Day, which honors those men and women who have fought to keep American free, as a propaganda piece for the invasion of Iraq.

Jim

]]> By: Sneakeasy's Joint http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/05/27/victor-davis-hanson-on-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-3669 Sneakeasy's Joint Sun, 28 May 2006 16:46:42 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/05/27/victor-davis-hanson-on-iraq/#comment-3669 <strong>Hanson Piece inspires Blogger Comment...</strong> The other day Victor Davis Hanson wrote an importan essay that is worth my linking to a 2nd time: That we are winning the fight against the forces of ignorance, and terror, and changing the lives of people in the... Hanson Piece inspires Blogger Comment…

The other day Victor Davis Hanson wrote an importan essay that is worth my linking to a 2nd time: That we are winning the fight against the forces of ignorance, and terror, and changing the lives of people in the…

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