Iraq & My Predictions

Posted on November 28, 2006
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America will withdraw sooner than expected and violence will erupt further like a volcano. Many people will die and suffer. Many will sadly go through hell. The volcano will keep firing out its hot lava but eventually the volcano will calm down. Yes, it will calm down but not because of any American efforts to help calm it. It will calm as a result of Iran using its influence over the Shia in Iraq and Syria stopping al-Qaeda fighters from crossing the border. Iran and Syria will both save the day. As the violence calms, Iran’s status in the region will rise higher and higher… much higher than the status it gained after Hezbollah’s war with Israel. Eventually Iran will be credited by the Arab and Muslim streets for kicking out America and in their eyes America will be made to look like a bitch. At that moment, Iran would have officially become the region’s new superpower.

When/if? the above happens, I’ll remember 3 things for the days to come. I’ll remember how America screwed up big time in its expectations of the Iraqis’ reactions and screwed up bigger time by underestimating the enemies’ vicious tactics. Secondly, I’ll remember how Iran and Syria helped force America out of Iraq using the “loveliest” and most “ethical” means ever. Thirdly and lastly, I’ll remember the realization I have made as I witnessed all this drama unfold right before me. The realization? America does certainly have the toughest military machine in the world but not the tough will to use it.

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12 Responses to “Iraq & My Predictions”

  1. The Raccoon on November 28th, 2006 1:54 pm

    Sounds about right. But you forgot to mention what’ll happen after Iran takes Iraq. Namely, nuclear strikes on Israel and USA, and the retaliatory strikes that will reduce the ME to a green-glowing, radioactive wasteland.

    And it’s not only USA that has no will to even defend itself. It’s all of the West. We’re in a freefall.

  2. Drima on November 28th, 2006 2:31 pm

    Well, let me see. Iraq will come under Iran’s influence and then Iran will turn its eyes towards other nearby countries to turn them into puppets. Iran will then get the nuke. After that the stuff you mentioned will probably start happening. May I also add that the war will get bigger and the whole ME in general will become a Sunni VS Shia battle ground too?

  3. The Raccoon on November 28th, 2006 2:52 pm

    I don’t think it’ll have time to become a Sunni-Shia war. After the nukes the remaining Shia will continue fighting the remaining Sunnis… but it wan’t be a war, since they won’t have enough healthy people left to fight en masse.

    I can see the headlines already: “200 dead in Radiation Relief Center bombing in Baghdad”.

    Happy happy fucking joy joy.

  4. Egypeter on November 28th, 2006 6:26 pm

    Blame it on the left-wing idiots that are in this country!!!

    They’re the ones that don’t have the will to finish the job in Iraq!! They screwed us in Vietnam and they’re going to screw us again in Iraq.

    If we could somehow get rid of the freakin’ ultra-liberals in this country we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

  5. Not Your Mama on November 29th, 2006 12:37 am

    Well, if our ultra-rightwing had either a) not opened up Iraq to everyone else and their brother in the first place or b) put enough resources and some people with a brain in charge we would not be at this juncture either. So, guess that makes the fringe elements about equal.

    Will to finish a job is one thing…ability to do so under the present leadership is another. Most of the US in case you have not noticed has opted to no longer follow a proven incompetent idiot. Doing the same things over and over expecting different results has always been a clear sign of insanity.

    The sad thing is Drima is very likely correct in his assessment and such will more than likely come to pass.

    “And it’s not only USA that has no will to even defend itself. It’s all of the West. ”

    I’d have to disagree there. The US has a massive will to defend itself, it was this very will that was perverted and distorted to be used by an administration that had it’s own personal agenda to push. It worked fairly well for a time there and had they (the administration) not seriously underestimated their opponents and overestimated their own ability to successfully carry out their mission it might have continued to work, at least for a while.

  6. Andrew Brehm on November 29th, 2006 9:56 am

    “Well, if our ultra-rightwing had either a) not opened up Iraq to everyone else and their brother in the first place or b) put enough resources and some people with a brain in charge we would not be at this juncture either. So, guess that makes the fringe elements about equal.”

    Had the left not boycotted the administration whenever possible, the left could now make a claim about how stupid the administration’s strategy was.

    All we know now is that demonstrating military power and showing a lack of will power to use it does not work. Thanks for that to the left!

    If you want to blame somebody, blame those who made this fail!

    “It worked fairly well for a time there and had they (the administration) not seriously underestimated their opponents ”

    Well, the administration probably didn’t know that the appeasement crowd was still so alive, after all the horrors of World War II and post-Vietnam Indochina.

  7. Not Your Mama on November 29th, 2006 10:23 am

    I’d hold the dems accountable for allowing themselves to be bullied into voting for the invasion. Between the repubs calling anyone who wasn’t “with them” an unpatriotic traitor and the dems putting concerns over their own individual political careers above concern for our country, most of them caved and went right along with this idiocy. Exemption for the small handful of dems who refused to back down and voted NO, also to the one and only republican (Senator Lincoln Chafee R-RI) who also voted against this

    Now, re: those who “made us fail” and “boycotting” of the administration, that’s blatant horsepucky. The administration had the power and the congressional votes to do darn near anything they pleased. The left could have boycotted all day long and it would have mattered not much, THEY WERE NOT IN OFFICE. Last I checked there were also no dems in charge of determining policy in regards to how the war was to be conducted and as I recall, the republicans were very happy to publicly tout this fact in the media. This would lead any rational person to conclude that they are either a) complete baldfaced liars or b) suffering from some cognitive and memory impairments.

    Our leadership, or rather lack of, “made us fail”. Nice to see the right is still incapable of taking any responsibility for it’s actions. Oh,.except when something works out well in which event they are all too delighted to take 100% of the credit. Please grow up.

  8. Vigilante on November 30th, 2006 2:26 am

    NotYoMama rocks.

    Egypter, Brehm:

    In three decades Iraq (or all three poarts of it) will recover as has Vietnam, will join the WTO, and resume its role in the world economy. They will foregive the USA (or sort of) for the damage inflicted in the interim. But a future generation of Americans will never forgive George W Bush, nor those who voted for him, such will be the burden his miserable presidency has cost them in treasure and blood

  9. Andrew Brehm on December 1st, 2006 12:17 pm

    “They will foregive the USA (or sort of) for the damage inflicted in the interim.”

    Yes, but will they forgive the Iranians and Syrians and the other terrorists for attacking mosques and killing tens of thousands of Iraqis?

    It will be easier to forgive the US.

    I was born and grew up in a country that was invaded and occupied by the US. The US and their allies destroyed everything. And I have not only “forgiven” the US but I am forever grateful for what they did and that they made it possible for me to live the life I am living now.

    If current generations of Americans won’t “forgive” the President of then or if future generations of Americans won’t “forgive” George Bush (and Bill Clinton, who also advocated regime change in Iraq) is of no relevance.

    “that’s blatant horsepucky.”

    If the media had reported more about Sudan and less about Iraq, and if the public thus knew that Iraq is not a worth disaster than places the Americans are not involved in, I would agree with you.

    And if Al-Qaeda had ignored the invasion, I would agree that the war in Iraq had nothing to do with the war on terror.

    “Nice to see the right is still incapable of taking any responsibility for it’s actions.”

    The right take responsibility. It’s the left who still believe that millions of deaths (Iraq-Iran war) or hundred of thousands of deaths (Iraq in the 90s) are preferable to the current situation.

    It’s also the left who keep blaming George Bush and the US military for crimes committed by Arab terrorists in Iraq.

    Ask any American and you might just find that very few of them know what Iraq was like under Saddam (because the media don’t mention it) and very few know how much worse the situation is in Sudan (because the media don’t mention it). Why do the media tell people that Iraq is a disaster without giving people the information needed to compare current Iraq to previous Iraq or to compare current Iraq with current Sudan?

    The terrorists believe that the US will give up its strategies. It’s up to American voters to decide whether they want what the terrorists want or whether they want what the terrorists don’t want.

    But if American voters do cave in, it is THEIR fault that the terrorists win, not the right wing’s.

    If you find your policies supported by the scum of the earth, there might just be something wrong with them, right?

  10. Andrew Brehm on December 1st, 2006 12:17 pm

    “The realization? America does certainly have the toughest military machine in the world but not the tough will to use it.”

    And that is exactly true.

  11. Vigilante on December 2nd, 2006 11:25 pm

    Clinton supported Regime change in Iraq as a goal of policy, but he did not institute a un-provoked, unnecessary, largely unilateral invasion and unplanned occupation of Iraq (UULUIUOI) to obtain it. Without getting Osama (dead or alive) Bush randomly singled out another Muslim country to blame for 9-11. He could have just as easily chose the Sudan as well as Iraq, (Wew know why he didn’t choose Saudi Arabia!). Now that Bush has given us our own Dardur and Gaza strip in Mesopotamia, you want to blame Clinton. (Oh, and the media.) History will bury you along with your excuses.

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