Happy Anniversary!! On this date in 2003...!

[Grins]

On this date, 20 March 2003, sixteen years ago, George W. Bush and his fellow neo-conservatives began their glorious war against people who never did a damn thing to us.

So how'd that work out?

NY Times; 11 March 2019:

"BAGHDAD - From financing the expansion of the vast courtyards that lead into the Shiite shrines of the holy city of Najaf, to ensuring that a Tehran-friendly candidate gets the job of interior minister, Iran’s role in Iraq keeps growing.

President Hassan Rouhani of Iran arrived in Baghdad on Monday for a visit to a place that his country has shaped in ways big and small over the past several years. Iran was the real winner of last year’s parliamentary elections in Iraq...."

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President Barham Salih of Iraq welcomes Iranian Pres., Hassan Rouhani, center, 11 March2019

Tell me again....exactly how much blood, treasure and credibility did we spend in Iraq...?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/11/world/middleeast/iran-iraq-rouhani.html

[Javaman]

1. and began the long plan to upend the world. nt

[underpants]

2. Moved it up 48 hours when Saddam tried to truck the gold out

I’ll never forget that night.