Iraq then and now is a lesson to be learned

Thursday, January 7, 2010

To the Editor:

In 2003, when the gang of four ignoramuses (Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz) declared we would win easily while reaping Iraqi gratitude and great economic rewards, I stated that the Iraqis would ultimately spit in our faces.

While grieving for the thousands of our valiant and precious troops that have been lost, and witnessing a surge of billions of our tax dollars that went to feed graft among the corrupt Iraqi politicians and warlords, I find that I was right.

This past month at a huge Iraqi oil auction the U.S. lost out completely to Russia, China and Europe.

At the Baghdad Trade Fair, only three out of 396 companies represented were American.

FedEx, which was in Iraq from the beginning of the war, has pulled out because a competing Russian company has received favoritism.

Simply stated, my position was that no Muslim nation would ever openly allow the notion that an army of (so called) Infidels had saved them.

And they would act accordingly to show their Arab neighbors that they owe nothing to the USA.

Afghanistan will treat us the same way. President Obama has ignored an object lesson at our peril.

FRED MORSE

Merrimack