koffieboon on 20 March 2008
| kazadoom said: I did not mean to imply that you said that, sorry for that. Saddam was a maniac and getting rid of him was one of the reasons for going in there. We did not prepare to govern them because we wanted them to govern themselves. This is going to take time and thinking that it should all be fixed this quickly is unfair. That is just not possible nor did I ever get the impression that was going to happen. Still I ask, do you have any idea what it must be like to have to make these decisions? Think about that a little before making judgments on how stupid or messed up it was. You and I have no idea the pressure the president has to face everyday no matter who it is. I do not like everything Bush has done, nor did I like everything Clinton did either, but I have respect for the office and there just seems to be such a disrespect given to that office today. Not saying that you are one doing it, but a lot of people in these type threads do. Good discussion anyway. |
Well, the documentary shows they didn't pay attention to important reports about how to deal with the situation in Iraq neither did they listen to the people actually in Iraq with experience towards the region as well as armed conflicts. Instead Rumsfeld, Brenner and some of the other people did their own liking and changed Iraq in the hostile environment it still is today. The movie gives the impression the Iraqi people (or at least the majority of the people) didn't immediately start to uprising, but choices like dissolving the Iraqi army creating over 100.000 disgruntled fully armed unemployed men was a pretty stupid thing to do.
