GOP Reps: Now "Everyone" Agrees Iraq was a Mistake

[babylonsister]

:eyes: That must make all those moms, dads, husbands, wives, kids, brothers, sisters. aunts, uncles, and other family and friends feel so much better.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/4/5/854329/-GOP-Reps:-Now-Everyone-Agrees-Iraq-was-a-Mistake

GOP Reps: Now "Everyone" Agrees Iraq was a Mistake
by mcjoan

Mon Apr 05, 2010 at 10:56:04 AM PDT


Huh. Maybe they should have been listening to that focus group of millions of people from the very beginning. Well over $715 billion, 4,705 coalition forces and who knows how many thousands of Iraqi lives later, the new conventional wisdom--among Republican congressmen is that the Iraq war was a mistake. From a Cato Institute panel discussion moderated by Grover Norquist:

Norquist then asked Rohrabacher to provide a “guesstimate percentage of Republicans in Congress who would share that view — not that they opposed the President at the time, but today looking back.” Rohrabacher replied that “everybody I know thinks it was a mistake to go in now”:

ROHRABACHER: Well, now that we know that it cost a trillion dollars and all of these years and all of these lives and all of this blood, uh, I don’t know many...

NORQUIST: Looking for a number. Two-thirds? One-third?

ROHRABACHER: I, I can’t. All I can say is the people, everybody I know thinks it was a mistake to go in now.

NORQUIST: That’s 100 percent.

Norquist then turned to McClintock, asking “what percentage”:

NORQUIST: Of Republicans in Congress, who would agree with the general analysis here that it was a mistake and/or we should go in.

MCCLINTOCK: I think everyone would agree Iraq was a mistake.

NORQUIST: Two hundred percents. Ok, we’re going to average these.

MCCLINTOCK: And, you know, again, I think virtually everyone would agree going into Afghanistan the way we did was a mistake. How many share my, my cynicism over this idea of a resolution of force, which I can’t find anywhere in the Constitution. And how many believe that in those rare cases where we go in, we put all of our resources behind our soldiers, I would say certainly more than half of the Republican caucus probably believe that.

Of course, if there was a President McCain sitting in the Oval Office and Iraq and Afghanistan were his "noble" inheritance, there might have been less candor from these guys.

[hatesthegop]

1. All Republicans

are fucking low functioning self centered morons!

[senseandsensibility]

2. Sickening, isn't it?

I feel ill.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Darth Cheney will not be pleased.

[butterfly77]

4. Nooooo!!!!

but the SURGE worked:sarcasm:

[Grand Taurean]

5. I will NEVER forget the run up to the Iraq war

and the millions of morons who vilified anyone who went against the grain.

[gratuitous]

6. Another 15 years, it'll be safe to say the same thing about Afghanistan

So, who gets to explain the mistake to the injured, the wounded and the survivors of the dead? Or do we just count up the profits for KBR, Halliburton and Xe, laugh at the poor suckers who paid in blood for all that money to go to Erik Prince, Dick Cheney and the rest of the Big Money Boyz, and go on about business as usual?

Of course, if any of those ingrates over in Iraq decide to exact a small measure of revenge on the U.S. for all the death we visited on them, you can be sure we'll set it up all over again. Po' folks line up to die, rich folks line up at the pay window.

[RandomThoughts]

7. You are correct, their are those that laugh at mostly good people.

They see someone trying to help someone else and call them a sucker, and they grab up everything they can.

There is a secret to their thought. 'If you can take it then it is yours', and behind that they actually think God must be evil. Their God rewards the person stepping on someone else throat, and clawing to the top point, like Dante's hell for the greedy.

People that help other people think God must be good. And a God that is good and just wont make one person have much while other suffer, so he finds ways for those with much to help others not hurt them.


Here is the kicker, if they think God is evil, or does not care, and their actions support that thing, that is where they will spend the after life. If they think God is good, and support that, even if it is a bit harder life, that is where they will spend the after.

So they also have to think there is only this life and no possibility of after life. Hence why proving the existence of the supernatural is so important. So they know the choices they make.

[chill_wind]

8. PROVE IT, gophers. Stop the Congressional funding

of the massive amounts of war-spending. Put your money where your mouths are.

What's that, again-- NO?

Case closed.

[gateley]

9. So the Mission WASN'T accomplished?

:shrug:

[bananas]

10. Will they apologize to Cindy Sheehan?

Assholes.

[paulsby]

11. tell that to hillary nt

[Marr]

12. Not everyone. The big "defense" contractors still think it was a good idea.

So does the oil industry and a bunch of other bloated, parasitic industries that these people are tied to.

[Arugula Latte]

15. Yep -- And, after all, that was the reason for the invasion.

It was a smashing success for corporate America, won at the cost of tens of thousands of lives...But, oh well. The business of America is business.




:grr:

[Crunchy Frog]

13. Oops!

What a pile of shit. They're all such brazen liars. It was an exercise in pure cynical manipulation from the first minute, and they were all complicit in it. This is just their way of now pretending that they bear no responsibility. It was just an oopsie. :eyes:

[LaPera]

14. Yet over 200 American corporations are still making billions of dollars in Iraq off our tax dollars

And these corporations have been and still are bankrupting our economy all for their sick greedy profit! The corporations want these wars and more wars for profit to continue forever.

[samsingh]

16. we were saying this before soldiers and civilians were killed

and the gop assholes were calling us traitors.