The Coming 3rd Iraqi War

Barack Obama has declared the war in Iraq over, and has withdrawn American troops. There was a ceremony in Iraq that was not attended by Iraqi officials. American troops were ingloriously moved to one of our bases in Kuwait. Here in the United States, there was nothing. Obama gave a speech, the press gave it a day’s worth of headlines, and life went on as normal…oblivious to all things Obama.

What am I missing? I am not a military planner. I have no experience with anything military. I have degree in international relations, but for the most part that was the Vietnam era. I am not privy to any classified information, and my general knowledge about both Iraq wars is limited. But it seems odd to me, and should to you, that America has now fought for Iraqi territory twice, and we have absolutely nothing to show for it but huge loss of American blood and treasure.

And what is worse, the existing government in Iraq is not particularly friendly to the United States even though its very existence is owed to the United States. Immediately upon withdrawal of American troops the sectarian violence in Iraq resumed with a vengeance. The government in Iraq is weak, and its former deadly enemy Iran is salivating at the border, ready and willing to fill the vacuum that the United States has left.

What is Obama doing? It seems to me that no country should have to fight for the same territory twice, and give it up a second time. In February of 1991 American troops were within 150 miles of Baghdad, and Bush the Elder unilaterally stopped the advance and withdrew American troops back to Kuwait. We had the sneaky bastards and the Iraqi Republican Army on the verge of collapse…and Bush withdrew.

Now Obama has done it again. It is Obama, not our troops, who is unilaterally leaving Iraq with his tail between his legs making whining noises about nobody better not ever try anything or else. He is leaving without one drop of oil, or not one petro dollar to repay the United States for disposing of the despot Saddam Hussein. What is he thinking?

What is really upsetting is Iran is still rushing headlong to make a nuclear bomb and wipe Israel off of the face of the earth. Obama has decided to sell some twenty odd fighter jets to Iraq. I hope Obama is smart enough to get paid in advance, because you can be sure that within a year or two those fighters will in the possession of Iran.

This is the single dumbest foreign policy move in a series of dumb foreign policy moves by the Obama administration which is acting on ideology rather that practicality and reality. The showdown with Iran is coming. It is just a matter of when. And our troops will have to fight for Iraq a third time. Only this time they will be fighting Iranians on Iraqi soil. Thank Mr. Obama for such a bright future. No American soldier should ever have to risk his/her life fighting for the same piece of land twice, let alone three times. And oh yes....

For those of you who will complain that we shouldn't have gone into Iraq the second time in the first place...you may or may not be right...but that doesn't make the withdrawal policy of the Obama administration any less lame!!!!!!