Middle East in turmoil 10 years after Iraq invasion…
CAIRO — President George W. Bush kept it simple in his short television address the evening of March 19, 2003: U.S. forces had begun their campaign to unseat Saddam Hussein, he said. The goals, he outlined in his first sentence, were straightforward: “to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger.” Some 522 words later he promised the result: “We will bring freedom to others and we will prevail.”
As he spoke, members of the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Division and the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force were already crossing from Kuwait, where they’d been preparing for weeks, into southern Iraq. In those sands, it was Thursday, March 20, the dawn of a new day.
Ten years later, the era that dawn ushered in looks anything but simple. After tens of thousands of deaths, not just of Americans, but also of Iraqis – many, if not most, at the hands of other Iraqis – that country is still in turmoil. American troops are gone and
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2013-03-14 19:06:49
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Just another reason to never look at this criminal, don’t hear him talk, don’t even think of this man who loves to kill children and women. “I will kill 100,000 in one day”, mass murderer george w bush. We survived Hitler and Stalin, Dalmer, Gacey and other pathetic excuses for men we can survive the bush crime syndicate.