Iraq and Crimea.

I have, for the most part, stayed out of the debate over what to do about Russia invading Crimea. Today though, after hearing the President announce more sanctions on Russia, I felt I had to put in my two cents worth.

Today marks the 11^th anniversary of our invasion of Iraq. I bring this up because apparently this administration, along with many members of congress who allowed the Iraq war to happen, seem to have forgotten that. Over the last few days, including the speech Mr. Obama gave today, have roundly condemned Russia for invading another country essentially saying that in the 21^st century we can't resort to changing borders and having invasions for trumped up reasons. The irony of this statement is amazing.

If going into Iraq wasn't based on trumped up data, I don't know what else I can say about it. Our government was hell bent to overthrow Saddam Hussein and had been since the end of the first Gulf War, all that was needed was some sort of reason. That reason came in the form of a bogus claim of “weapons of mass destruction” primarily, “yellow cake” used for making nuclear bombs. While it was true that he had used chemical weapons in the past against some of his own people and Iran during the Iran/Iraq war, the real premise was the “yellow cake” that did not exist. Was there some chemical weapons found? Yes, but not in the amounts we were told. It was all bogus.

Now, 11 years later Russia goes into Crimea, by their request and with their approval, after our government sponsored, quietly I might add, a bloody revolution in Kiev, led by Nazi's. We interfered in the Ukraine because they were accepting Russia's offers of help rather than ours. So now instead of elected officials running the Ukraine we have Nazi's. Let me spell that out for you “ National Socialist.” You know the guys with the swastikas that hate everybody but themselves? Of course most Americans wouldn't know that because our media for the most part has ignored it. The BBC went into the Ukraine and actually interviewed the “leaders” of this coup and it turned out that most of them were extreme right wing zealots who would do Hitler proud. These are the people that our government is supporting.

Now we are threatening sanctions, Russia is threatening back, and we now have the potential of starting another world wide economic collapse or even the potential for another world war over the Ukraine’s legitimate government choosing Russia's deal over ours.

I do not want to be misunderstood, I do not agree with Russia occupying Crimea and it concerns me that perhaps they have a bigger goal in mind such as all of the Ukraine and, perhaps other nations of the former Soviet Union, but I would humbly submit to you two things despite that concern: The first being we have no right to stand up on a stage and tell Russia, or any other country for that matter, what they can and can't do, particularly in their own back yard. We lost that moral high ground a long time ago. Second, our government needs to stop sticking it nose where it doesn’t belong such as the internal affairs of a sovereign nation. We may not like what they choose to do but it's supposed to be their right to do so.

Just my Simple Minded Opinion.