CNN: Former CIA Director Michael Hayden says the sectarian strife in Iraq was predictable and could have been lessened if the Obama administration had kept troops there.
Huffington Post: MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry hit President Obama for ending the Iraq war and pulling out U.S. troops -- carrying out a Status of Forces Agreement first negotiated between the Bush administration and the Iraqi government. "I would send troops back into Iraq," he said ... Perry added, "We're going to see Iran, in my opinion, move back in at literally the speed of light. They're going to move back in, and all of the work we've done -- every young man that has lost his life in that country will have been for nothing. Because we've got a president that does not understand what's going on in that region."
The Sunni/Shia strife has gone on in Iraq for a thousand years. It will go on for another thousand. Republicans know this. They want us spending taxpayer money in Iraq forever because the military-industrial complex turns around and uses some of it to bankroll the Republicans grip on power. It works out for them; they spend some of their billions of get Republicans elected, Republicans start bullshit wars, they get even richer, tens of thousands of Americans get killed and maimed.
As for the part about Iran moving in, that's true. With a majority Shia population, that outcome was ordained the minute the GOP power structure decided to get rid of Sadam. Perry and his fellow Republicans handed Iraq and the worlds second largest oil reserves to Iran on a silver platter. But that's certainly not a reason to vote for them.
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