I find it interesting that one of the Democratic Party’s greatest critics (Senator Biden) of the Iraq war is calling for American troops to go to Darfur to end the genocide. I am guessing that Biden was one of the many Democrats that agreed Saddam had to have been taken out before America’s invasion to topple a genocidal-terrorist loving dictator. The reason for the invasion was Saddam’s possession of WMD or the wish to develop nuclear WMD. The WMD was not found. From that time forward Bush hating Democrats tried to simultaneously cover their political butts and rock the Republican world of its control of government by blaming Bush.

 

President Bush’s problem was he placed all the eggs in the WMD basket and did not emphasize the rogue state nature of Saddam’s Iraq. Saddam can definitely be linked to aiding terrorists in Israel and there are back door connections to the likes of al-Qaeda. Saddam was the member of the Sunni minority that occupied a nearly oil-free portion of Iraq. In order to insure his grip of power Saddam slaughtered thousands of Shi’ite and Kurdish Iraqis. Should Saddam’s reign have been terminated? Definitely!

 

And that WMD pickle: There are many who still believe WMD was there and the Russian and/or Syrians were able to walk away with the evidence. Therein lay the Bush mistake. The military plan to topple Saddam was solid; the military plan to secure Iraq from outside interference was a debacle.

 

Now that I have set up a brief look of the cause and effect of the Iraq war, let us return to Joe Biden. Why would Biden favor sending Americans to a similar radical Islamist maelstrom in Sudan and complain that America should never have toppled the psychotic government of Saddam Hussein? Is Biden being compassionate? Where is the compassion for the Iraqis dieing from internecine religious conflict created by Saddam Hussein? Darfur will be the same maelstrom as Iraq.

 

“The war was unnecessary, Biden asserted.

 

“The president took us to war unncessarily, without letting the weapons inspectors finish their work, without enough troops, without the right equipment for the troops that we sent, without the proper care for those (wounded) who were taken home.” (San Francisco Sentinel 5/21/07)

 

 

Biden is 100% correct by the way. America should end the Darfur genocide. America should topple the Islamofascist leadership of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. Also America should battle Islamofascists in Iraq. There is one thing I do agree with Biden: give up on a central democratic Iraqi government. I somewhat like Biden’s idea of an autonomous federated Iraq divided into three regions; however this will only work with an American presence as well. Why? Because of our friend (cough) enemy Iran.