Posted on 03/20/2023 8:46:55 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Instead, that globalist fool decided to keep the money train flowing by forcing democracy on stone aged savages.
Not only was Iraq 100% justified and correct, it one of the most successful foreign policy actions in US history. Anyone who says otherwise has no idea what they are talking about. Hussein violated the cease fire with us, which is a declaration of war. He had WMDs, which is why every prominent Democrat, including Trump, said he had them. He had to go. Bush would have been killed if he didn’t take action. Of course, we won the war with Iraq in record time. Afterwards, terrorists from all over flowed into Iraq like roaches to a roach motel. Iraq became THE battleground for the war on terror. This was a great thing. The embodiment of fighting them over there so we didn’t have to fight them here. It was a triumph. Al Queda is a shell of themselves thanks to the Iraq War. America is safer thanks to our actions in Iraq. Period. While we will never be able to completely eliminate terrorism, Iraq was a historic triumph in the war on terror and should be celebrated. Thanks to ignorance and lies, most people have no idea of the truth.
Only the anti-American code pinko leftards say Bush is a war criminal. The fact that this and other similar bullshit has found a home here at FR is a testimant to how far this once great bastion of conservative thought has fallen. It’s an absolute disgrace. Things that would have gotten you banned in five minutes ten or fifteen years ago are now perfectly acceptable. You, and all those like you, should be ashamed of yourselves. BTW, if I told you on 9/12/01 Bush would leave office with no further attacks on US soil, everyone would be planning parades and statues to honor him. It’s true and we all know it.
I now sit and wonder with you. Thanks for posting.
Better than Gore and I disliked Bush terribly and now probably more so since he was silent through Obama.
The problem wasn’t Dubya’s decision to go to war. Saddam was an evil S-O-B who needed killing. The problem was choosing to go to war without a cogent (and flexible) plan for winning the peace.
By all appearances, Dubya went in gambling that the Iraqi people craved democratic rule above all, and with no fall-back if that should fail.
On that count, he clearly was wrong. However, Saddam, like Generalissimo Francisco Franco, is still dead.
We attacked a country on the other side of the world that was no threat to us.
It cost us Thousands of dead soldiers and tens of thousands wounded soldiers plus 2.5 trillion.
We killed 100,000 to 500,000 civilians. That is the definition of a war criminal.
We did nothing to Saudi Arabia, the country involved in killing thousands of American citizens.
The same people who pushed the Iraq war are pushing us to go to war with Russia, a war that could destroy our country.
I’m sorry the truth upsets you.
“There’s a new narrative, peddled increasingly by people on the right, that the war was the sinister work of a cabal of neocon warmongers.”
It’s not new, and people with long memories believe that narrative because Bill Kristol’s “Project for a New American Century” was a neocon think tank that openly promoted war to further their foreign policy goals.
And unfortunately PNAC members were highly influential in George W Bush’s administration after first trying to get Bill Clinton to embrace their agenda.
The January 1998 PNAC letter to Clinton urging him to remove Saddam Hussein and his regime through military action is very hard to locate online anymore. I can only find it in a pdf file otherwise I’d post the text. You’d ‘almost’ think that the old PNAC crowd doesn’t want it available for people to read.
The PDF can be found here:
https://noi.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/iraqclintonletter1998-01-26-Copy.pdf
Signatories include:
Bill Kristol
Dick Cheney
Donald Rumsfeld
Paul Wolfowitz
Elliott Abrams
Richard Armitage
John Bolton
Richard Perle
Robert Kagan
Francis Fukuyama
Bill Bennett
“We urge you to articulate this aim, and to turn your administration’s attention to implementing a strategy for removing Saddam Hussein’s regime from power. This will require a full complement of diplomatic, political and military efforts.”
“We urge you to act decisively. If you act now to end the threat of weapons of mass destruction against the US or its allies, you will be acting in the most fundamental national interests of the country.”
That’s January 1998. The Iraq WMD scare was already being pushed by neoconservatives in an attempt to get the United States to go to war. They succeeded with Bush junior after 9-11, which Saddam Hussein’s Iraq played absolutely no role in.
The Robert Kagan mentioned above is the husband of Victoria Nuland, a major player the Ukraine war.
The average Iraqi IQ is 87, not high enough to maintain a functional constitutional republic. What that region needs is stability, not “democracy”. That region is inarguably a worse place without an autarkic leader.
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Hindsight is wonderful, isn't it? The question one should ask now is what would Biden and the Democrats have done differently if able?
There’s no truth coming from you, just code pinko lies. Iraq was at war with us. Hussein broke the cease fire from Dessert Storm, which is a resumption of war. He was a terrorist who supported terrorist organizations. He had WMDs. They went to Syria. Get a damn clue. I’m sure you’re a Trump lover. He said they had WMDs and were building a nuclear arsenal in 2000. Before Bush was ever president. There are always civilian casualties in war, especially when the enemy uses them as shields. There were always going to be American casualties in the WOT. It’s a war! While we morn and celebrate the ultimate sacrifice of our heroes, the number of American deaths in Iraq is historically low. You are either incredibly ignorant as to what a war criminal is, or you are an anti-American liar. Regardless, you are spewing code pinko cancerous bile. I never thought I’d see the day when such was acceptable here at FR. P.S.: Hussein and Putin were/are war criminals.
RE: That region is inarguably a worse place without an autarkic leader.
Sure, but not someone who would invade a neighbor or lob Scud missiles at a nearby country
Blah Blah all you do is throw insults because your arguments are weak.
America would be a better place today without the Iraq war.
Virtually every poll taken shows your opinion to be in the single digits.
Bush/Cheney’s approval rating was in the 20s when they left office, the lowest of any President.
Helped give us Obama.
It also explains why Jeb! only got 3 delegates after spending 150 million dollars.
The Bush name is toxic, even to republicans.
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