Another Feather In Obama's Hat

By Semperpapa

The count is very close to 4,500, tens of thousands wounded and their lives altered forever together with their families. And the Iraq war is over.

The end of WWII saw 440,000 KIAs for both theaters, European and Pacific. a staggering number regardless how you look at it, but a number that was not rendered useless by Harry S. Truman "ending" the war. The sacrifice of so many Americans lives brought the defeat of ruthless enemies not only of America, but of any speck of human decency.

Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan were defeated, millions of human beings were free.
Did all evil suddenly disappear? Of course not, but the evil of the Jewish Holocaust did. The horror of Japanese occupation in the western Pacific did.

No war ever eliminated evil completely. The first World War was supposed to be the "war to end all wars", the Great War (how can an adjective like "great" be associated with war?) to eliminate evil, and, as we know, that did not work out too well.

Barak Obama campaigned in 2008 on ending the war in Iraq, a war he qualified as "dumb". Really challenging for my intellect to consider this idiot as my president. This is supposed to be the Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief and yet had the audacity to qualify the blood and sacrifice spent in Iraq as being for a "dumb" cause, useless at least until it could come handy in his campaign.

And now, today, we can clearly see that the concerns of many in the know and many, like yours truly, who just use common sense, are sadly coming true, as the Obama regime "ended" a war that has cost America dearly in blood. Sure, the cost in treasure has also been high, but that particular aspect of the war remains a point of great disappointment for this American. The Iraqi nation, with the riches it holds in terms of oil, should have been made to pay back the American people for much of the expenses to free their people.

So my main concern is that of the families of those who left to fight for their country and never made it home. These families are today witnessing exactly the disintegration of the efforts their service member paid so highly to achieve.
Sunni and Shi'ite infighting is back, not even one week after the last American troop left Iraq, just as it had been predicted: our enemies had all the time and opportunity to plan their return to violence once the date had been telephoned by the administration.

What is going to happen now? Clearly, it looks like the sectarian issues among the leaders of Iraq is as alive as ever and the so called leadership is more interested in addressing old hate than insuring the safety and security of the Iraqi people.

14 separate and coordinated bombings have killed dozens of innocent people and it is only the beginning.

The result of all this is to alienate the Iraqi people against the Americans. What do the common folks in Iraq want more than anything? Security.
The mode of our departure while aimed at boosting Obama's image with his lunatic anti-war fringe, is certainly angering those who will pay in blood for the Obama re-election ploy.

But even if I want to discount the vicissitudes of the Iraqi population, I still am horribly angered by the perception that Gold Star families must be getting these days, their loved one lost only to see the country fall back into unrestrained violence. Sacrifice for nothing.

I have said this before, but never tire of repeating it: wars are not ended. They are either won or lost. If the political leadership in America has become so spineless that the idea of victory against the enemy of the Nation is considered "extreme" than they have no business sending our boys and girls into battle. If they are not allowed to fight to win, they should not be asked to go die for someone political ambition.

I have met many of those Gold Star families as they buried their dead. There is no boundary to the sorrow I feel for them, especially right now when the sacrifice of their son, daughter, mother, father, husband, wife has been made null by the ambitions of some politician.

Just my thoughts!