Four Years In Iraq

And, we're still counting.  Care for a history lesson?  Excellent work on the Booman Tribune blog.  It's worth a bookmark, unless you have a lot of time on your hands, at the moment.  It's a detailed, three-part, piece - but, well-worth your time to read.

4 Years in Iraq - How We Got There (part 3)

This is Part 3 in my weekend series “4 years in Iraq – how we got there”. In case you missed Part 1 and/or Part 2, I have linked them here. I am doing this in response to a “challenge”/request by Dood Abides on Thursday in anticipation of the fourth anniversary of this disaster we created in Iraq. These three parts also happen to make up the first chapter in the book I am writing about this administrations misleading and mishandling its “war on terror”. Part 1 looked at the [...]

And, in case you need more to remind you of the history...

Happy Anniversary...

Don Rumsfeld 2/7/2003: "It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months" George W. Bush 5/1/03: "My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed." Dick Cheney 6/20/05: "The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I [...]

Oh, what the heck.  Let's make this a real collection of Anniverary notes -

Four years later

On the fourth anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq, it’s hard to know where to start reflecting. The facts are all-too-familiar — the bloodshed, lies, the misjudgments, the exploitation, the deterioration. It’s nothing we haven’t mulled over before. Consider, however, Kadhim al-Jubouri’s perspective. His hands were bleeding and his eyes filled with tears as, [...]

And, finally, one more timeline that says it all -

Four Years

Tags: Iraq War, Anniversary