Russian invasion of Ukraine

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hugo7 in reply to @nick_h.

It wouldn't surprise me if that was what the Bush administration wanted.

I don't. How did it/would it help to achieve their aims?

Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Blair, Bremer and others should have gone on trial

In case you didn't know, the US won't recognise the ICC precisely for this reason.

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nick_h. in reply to @hugo7

I know about the ICC problem.

The sectarian violence didn't help achieve their aims...they achieved those anyway. But the violence suited them because Iraq contained a lot of people who they would categorize as 'bad actors', and they were more than comfortable with them being killed by other Iraqis. To their mind, it was preferable to trying to police Iraq and dig out the the bad guys. Some American lives would have been lost and it would have become an intractable problem. So they disbanded the army and looked the other way.

Do you follow the Bush shoe-thrower on twitter? https://twitter.com/muntazer_zaidi His tweets give me a useful reminder of what happened. I don't want to forget.

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hugo7 in reply to @nick_h.

Bush shoe-thrower

Cheers. I'll check it out.

Also I know everyone here has probably rinsed them all, but Doomsday Watch on Iraq and Afghanistan aka Why the West can't win wars any more (I think), is excellent on Afghanistan, and has some interesting points on Iraq too.

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