| Let's see. . . Who said back in 2002 that the Iraq invasion was a big mistake, that at some point we'd leave and they'd still be there, and that all of the weapons we provided our "allies" would just saturate the country with death and destruction? Oh yeah . . . the millions of us around the world who were RIGHT ALL ALONG! |
| About 800 American troops lost their lives, and many more were wounded, in {Baiji on the way to Tikrit and other cities closer to Baghdad . . and the huge refinery at Baiji}, the homeland of Saddam Hussein and his Baathist loyalists. For the comrades of those fallen troops, the grim news this week has left them struggling to reconcile the sacrifices that were made with the speed and magnitude with which northern Iraq is falling to insurgents.
“Part of me wants to say that everything we did or attempted to do is being torn asunder, that it is all for naught,” {Phillips McWilliams, a platoon leader } said Sitting at his office in Alaska after a long day visiting crews, {Matthew Adkins, then a self-described “butterbar” lieutenant} said he hoped the Iraqi government could claw back some of what it lost this week, otherwise “all that human capital spent on it was possibly for nothing.” Source: "Veterans Watch as Gains Their Friends Died for Are Erased by Insurgents" - By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. - NY Times - JUNE 13, 2014 |
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