In a week that saw the death of the Dear Leader and the end of the Iraq War as we knew it, Gorilla thought it appropriate to remember how we got here via one of his most famous songs:
What happens when the gene pool gets overchlorinated?
Posts Tagged ‘Iraq’
Primogeniture, Dear Boy, Primogeniture!
Monday, December 19th, 2011The End Of A Failure
Sunday, October 16th, 2011Iraq, where all US troops will be gone by the end of the year…
This utterly stupid and pointless war resulted in absolutely nothing being accomplished. It began on a lie and is ending in failure.
What’s left is a corrupt regime, a country that will likely descend into civil war, and a pro-Iranian check on US objectives in the Middle East. The oil remains in the ground, the killing of civilians remains unchecked, and the US has the blood of hundreds of thousands (not to mention the millions of refugees) on its hands.
Gorilla says: “A great failure, a great disaster, a worthless Pentagon, and a lying President combined to deliver a big fat zero!”
Useful Fact Of The Day
Thursday, September 15th, 2011For approximately the same price as 3 weeks of pointless war in Afghanistan and Iraq, we could double the GDP of Niger and send Gaddafi and sons to the Hague for trial.
Gorilla says: “Or we could hire 300,000 Americans and pay them each a salary of $30K for a year!”
Whitewashing Bad Apples
Monday, August 29th, 2011Yes, British soldiers tortured people in Iraq, but it’s not a systemic failure, it’s just a few bad apples who got out of hand!
Sound familiar?
What never happens as a result of these inquiries is any sort of punishment at any level further up the chain of command.
Heaven forbid we actually held the generals accountable for the failings of their troops!!!
Gorilla says: “Or their bankers, who also got away scot free!!!”
No, Iraq Wasn’t A Success
Monday, August 15th, 2011People continue dying by the dozens every week!
But they’re not Americans, and we don’t see much about Iraq on the news anymore, so the surge must have worked!
Until of course we’re out for good, after which the civil war can resume in earnest…
And yes, it’s pretty much the same story in Afghanistan, Libya, and Somalia. Strategic air power alone doesn’t win wars, and there aren’t sufficient troops anywhere to provide even basic security, let alone “victory”.
Gorilla says: “These pointless wars could be described as Shiite, minus one eye if you’re British, and one eye and one e if you’re Petraeus!”
Ky Are We
Saturday, July 23rd, 2011We no longer care about Marshal Ky, but he’s very relevant today…
Like Karzai, like Maliki, like various Pakistanis, like Libyan rebels, like Somali non-Islamists, we hope for the best, but we’re still not ready to accept the worst!
Gorilla says: “And so we are, more or less, in stand by idiocy!”
Civil War Goes On
Monday, July 11th, 2011In Iraq, as in Afghanistan and Libya, the civil war never stopped, it just faded from Americans’ attention spans.
Our “victory” in Iraq was of course really a victory for Iran, who have gotten a friendly government installed while also supplying even more friendly Shiite groups that might overthrow said government. The Sunnis of course are also bombing away.
8 years on from invasion, and with withdrawl just around the corner, this pointless war had produced absolutely nothing of lasting value.
Gorilla says: “Panetta talks tough, but everyone knows we’re going!”
14 A Day
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011That’s the average number of “insurgent” attacks in Iraq…
Everyone’s waiting around for the civil war to restart, and once we’re gone it will!
Gorilla says: “No longer worth pretending that this was a success!”
Takes One To Know One
Friday, June 10th, 2011NATO: a dismal failure, says the Secretary of Defense currently losing 3 wars!!!
And he’s right, the Europeans simply don’t have the military capacity to win in Libya without boots on the ground.
Of course, that’s the conclusion the Administration should have reached before embarking on the stupidest military operation since Iraq.
NATO itself should have been abolished 20 years ago, it has no strategic mission now that the Cold War is over.
But the larger dismal failure is the Pentagon, with a budget greater than the rest of the world’s militaries combined and unable to win against a similar bunch of ragtag tribesman after 10 years in Afghanistan.
Gorilla says: “Time to break the war bonds!”
Over In Iraq
Monday, June 6th, 2011The pointless slide into civil war continues.
Nobody in DC talks about Iraq at all. Dozens of Iraqis are still being killed. Attacks on US soldiers continue. The central government doesn’t appear to have any answers to restore either economic growth or law and order.
Gorilla says: “A trillion or so later, and nothing to show for it!”
