Why Iraq III - Will Congress plz show up?

Bob Conaway, a candidate for Congress in California's 8th Congressional District says:

"We need to avoid without Congressional approval, beyond humanitarian aide and security forces needed to defend American diplomatic assets, propping up an Iraqi regime in failure mode & ignoring our own 'life' priorities.
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First, as BBC reporters have said, the old failed leadership in Iraq just played a game of musical chairs before the US announced there was a new government. It seems that we are asking the same Sunni leaders that could not get their army to stand their ground and fight ISIL, to now fight ISIL, because of some humanitarian supplies being delivered to Kurds and bombing missions (and the promise of more bombings).   What is the logic of this?  We bombed Sadaam and it was not enough--we had to commit ground forces and when they (the US) withdrew,  instability reappeared. How is this any different? Some have said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result?
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Second, through all this, no one has asked where did the Republican Guard Ba'thist Party forces go when the US arrived in Baghdad? The Republican Guard had military training to fight and fight they did against Iran and Kuwait, so one has to ask, (a) if they are now part of the Iraqi Army, are we rearming and allying with Sadaam's old military elite? (b) If they are not part of the new (current) Iraqi Army, where are they and are we bombing to help defeat that previously "vanished"  military elite or (c) are they standing by waiting for Iraq's collapse (or weakening from the conflict we are ramping up) so they can walk in without firing a shot?
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Third, has anyone asked about whether Iraqi Sunnis want to fight other Sunnis even if they are part of ISIL? We seem to forget the Sunnis under Sadaam (which the Army was primarily made up of) killed Kurdish civilians (like what is happening now?). Could it be that Sunni Iraqis don't want to attack Sunni-leaning ISIL forces so Kurds can be saved the ravages of war, when just maybe, some Sunnis in Iraq might see ISIL's attack of the Kurds being a way to seize back control of the oil fields historically operated by Iraqi Sunnis? Who are we helping in this fight and what end game are we working?
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Congress needs to debate this--e.g. who are we doing this for and why? If this is about oil fields, stay out and develop our natural resources. Most of the oil is reportedly going to Red China--what's our bone in this fight?
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Are we really doing this to save lives? We have a lot of "life" issues, including but not limited to shipping children away who are escaping to the US for a better life with apparently little regard to their fate upon return, failing to deal with the record numbers of suicides in the armed forces by ignoring the signs and failing to give our fighting men and women full and unfettered access to needed medical care to prevent such acts of self destruction [Extrapolating from a 2012 VA report that found 22 veterans took their lives each day in 2009 and 2010, IAVA members planted 1,892 flags on the National Mall Thursday to commemorate the staggering figure; see also http://maketheconnection.net/conditions/suicide], ignoring runaway homelessness numbers (many of which are vets), ignoring crippling student loan debt and abusive Sallie Mae collection policies which is causing depression and anxiety amongst our unemployed and underemployed youth (and returning vets who had some college educational loans) and ignoring the fact 1 in 5 American children suffer from hunger (how about deliverying those food packs to our poor).
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How about dealing with our "life" issues first?"
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Why Aren't We Asking What National Interest is being Protected in Iraq in 2014?

I know that ex leaders (and current ones) want to be able to say the losses were for something worthwhile. I think Americans want to feel the sacrifice of our men and women under arms, the losses and burdens to their families and our economic future were all worthwhile.
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The past is an interesting reality--it happened. It can't be changed or altered. With that said we really need to get beyond the notion it is Bush's war or Obama's. We need to get beyond the finger pointing with a selective memory (and facts recounted) in tow.
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We can claim to have a moral obligation to defend the people we fought with and for, but one has to wonder how many are left that haven't immigrated to other countries by now (many to the US).
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My money would be that the old Sadam Republican Guard might be tinkering, a military force we left virtually untouched --that ran Sadams brutal machine and basically vanished until now. By most intel reports, Sadam's personal guard was 10,000 strong and the military arm was 100,000 strong.

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If we are defending the population against them, then limited action from the air and military advisors did not stop them before. Sadam lives on through his loyalists, who basically vanished when the intervention happened and for sure after the US led coalition refused to give administrator type jobs to them in the new government (like we did in Germany & Japan after WWII).
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Are we defending the oil production and flow? If the answer to that question is yes, ask whose oil supply is it. Some reports are saying its all headed to Communist China. How is that our interest?
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If we are defending US contractors working on the oil fields,  are we responsible for a corporation putting their people in harm's way for profit?
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The separatist question (breaking Iraq up) might be the only way to manage the hostilities, yet that does not seem to be in the discussion.
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Paul Cook likes to do the military rhetoric thing and defend the sacrifice. Ok, so noted, BUT  Paul Cook, you are Congressman, a part of one of the greatest bodies that has ever been existed--there not to justify what was done (let Fox news and the Washington Post do that), but to work with fellow members and ALL leadership to make a workable policy so we can ALL move forward with a defined PRESENT & LEGITIMATE interest driving our actions.
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You were not elected to be Colonel of a Division, but be a servant of the 8th Congressional District's constituents and the greater United States of America.
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It's time to stop sniffing Boehner's mindless march into oblivion.