Posted on 03/22/2023 7:56:49 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
the war was right, how it was conducted was wrong.
we shouldn’t have sent in ground troops, but instead leveled the place from 1,000 miles away.
“...he tried to kill my Dad!” W
The only winner was Iran.
I was there 20 years ago. It wasn’t worth it after we caught Saddam. That should have been the end.
“All were Republicans who supported the war in 2002, 2003 and beyond.”
There is the problem
People need to learn to oppose wars before they happen, rather than afterwards when the outcome is not what they expected. FR was overwhelmingly supportive of the war when it was happening.
At the time I gave Bush the benefit of the doubt, but even so, I was leery about how the Iranians would benefit from it.
My unanswered question about all of this is, why did we have such a bad intelligence about these weapons of mass destruction?
Are the CIA and other intelligence agencies just that inept that they were fooled by someone that Saddam did have weapons of mass destruction?
Who exactly planted the seed in the minds of our intelligence agencies that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?
Who stood the gain from us starting a war of choice in Iraq? And were they the purveyors of false information to our intelligence community?
Simply was not. At the time Iraq and Saddam Hussein was the biggest threat to the 9/11 Saudis and their grip on Arabia. Bush, who’s family made a fortune in the oil business colluding with the Saudis, dutifully invaded Iraq, destroyed the threat , got over 8,000 Americans killed, tens of thousands more maimed and severely damaged the American economy. Violent Islamic fundamentalist sprang from the ruins of Iraq including Saudi funded ISIS. The mess made possible the election of the America hating Obama. The American nation continues to suffer.
That this question is even being posed, two decades later, reveals just how much the neo-Con "endless war" rot has eaten away at the body politic in this country.
If, after all this time, people can't get a question this easy correct truly suggests that there's no hope. Drunk, fat, and clueless is no way to go through life, GOP.
lol...Life art, art life...
RE: That should have been the end.
OK, what does the end mean? That we all go home and leave the Iraqis to sort what’s left of it out for themselves?
Jut because Sadam Hussein was executed doesn’t mean that there were no 9/11 related terrorists in Iraq. Remember Abu Al Zarqawi? he was just one of the many, including Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS ( Yes the other “I” in ISIS stands for IRAQ ).
No, it wasn’t.
Getting rid of dictatorships and nation building are two different things and to nation build, one must grind the existing culture to dust.
We don’t have the stomach for that so half measures got half assed results and alot of blood and treasure wasted.
you beat me to it!
I still watch the re-runs. Hillarious.
The real culprit was B.J. Clinton, who allowed Saddam Hussein to completely violate his terms of surrender in Gulf War I for 8 long years.
The CIA and other intelligence agencies are just “Monkey Paws” for the administration’s desired actions.
The problem comes when the actions taken but without evidence becomes the curse of the Monkey Paw”
I would have liked to oppose that war. But the antiwar protesters ere so obviously weirdo’s, and had the issues all wrong
It was not a war or oil
It was not an exercise in American Imperialism
It was not that G.W. Bush was just a war-monger
I believe that Bush believed everything he said.
I just thought the war in Iraq was the wrong thing to do at the time.
Afghanistan, possibly. Osamma bin Laden was the defense minister there. But, I’d have probably nuke them until they glowed and called it a day. Kabul would have been more radioactive than Chernoble. Then, the next annihilate every other major city in the place the next day so survivors have no place to go. Finally drop about 1,000,000 Jack Chick tracts on the evils of Islam for them to read.
We should have made Afghanistan the example and watched Iraq fall in line
No. Stop the war mongering for banker’s gain.
That was also probably the main reason I was not so much against the war at the time. I didn’t want to be on the side of the Rats.
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