At this point even pandering to Israel will not save her.
"Bachmann would keep troops in Iraq past 2012
Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann said yesterday that the United States should keep troops in Iraq past the end of this year - even as she acknowledged that the conditions under which the Iraqis might allow that would be untenable.
Also see: Sunday Globe Special: Occupation Iraq Cut Short
Bachmann also suggested that Iraq should pay back the United States for leading the war, which deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. “Iraq should reimburse the US fully for the amount of money we spent to liberate these people,’’ she said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.’’ “They are not a poor country.’’
I'm so sickened and disgusted by such an attitude because the exact opposite is true. AmeriKa should be compensating Iraqis for the millions dead, the destroyed infrastructure, and environmental poisoning of the place -- all over damnable lies.
Problem is we can never truly repay the sufferings we have visited upon the Iraqi people. No amount of money can ever repair the hell we have put them through and now in.
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Bachmann said the United States spent more than $800 billion and lost 4,400 American lives and has nothing to show for it. The war also caused thousands of Iraqi deaths and threw the country into upheaval.
Well, she is right about nothing to show for it (except fat war-profiteer profits over the last ten years and a further enslavement as a nation to banksters).
“We’ve been kicked out of Iraq by the people we expended our blood, treasure, and toil to liberate,’’ she said.
That's right.
Historically, Bachmann said, the United States has always left troops behind to secure the peace after any conflict.
Oh, is that what empires built upon war do?
She said it should do the same in Iraq, to ensure that Iran does not exert its influence there....
Yeah, and leave our boys as a bulwark against Iran after Israel attacks them?
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Related: Occupation Iraq: US Returning in 2012
Of course, we all know why they are there and why they will not be coming home:
"Bachmann would consider use of force against Iran
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said yesterday that she would not rule out the use of force in responding to an alleged Iranian attempt to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States.
Related: U.S. Government Uses Texas Used Car Salesman to Sell Terror Plot
Sorry, propaganda press, but I'm not buying that one.
“I would consider the use of everything that we need to do to maintain the safety and security of the American people,’’ the Minnesota representative said on ABC’s “This Week.’’
The Justice Department charged two people who allegedly used a Mexican drug cartel in a plot directed by elements of the Iranian government to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador on US soil.
The plotters allegedly discussed bombing a Washington-area restaurant.
Bachmann called the alleged plot a “tremendous act of aggression,’’ noting that it could potentially have killed or injured hundreds of innocent Americans.
She used the plot to bolster a common Republican critique of the Obama administration: that the president has weakened America’s standing in the world. Bachmann said the plot shows that Iran sees America as less of a threat.
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Related: Bailing on Bachmann
They know it's a lost cause.
