By Jim Stanford on August 21, 2007
The Iraq War is a complete fiasco.
But don’t take my word for it. Read what soldiers about to return from a 15-month tour of duty in Iraq have to say about it.
To believe that Americans, with an occupying force that long ago outlived its reluctant welcome, can win over a recalcitrant local population and win this counterinsurgency is far-fetched. As responsible infantrymen and noncommissioned officers with the 82nd Airborne Division soon heading back home, we are skeptical of recent press coverage portraying the conflict as increasingly manageable and feel it has neglected the mounting civil, political and social unrest we see every day.
And if there is any living human who has not yet seen the eerily prescient 1994 video about the pitfalls of invading Iraq, please click here to watch on YouTube.
Too bad that guy isn’t running our country.
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