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
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.
“I believe that Bush believed everything he said.”
I also believed in what Bush did back then, and I think that context is lost.
We saw in the 1990s the collapse of the communism and the end of many Asian and Latin American dictatorships and all of those nations by 2003 had emerged as America friendly free-market democracies.
It really seemed like if you remove the despots people around the world would chose the American way of life.
What destroyed that progress was Lawrence v. Texas in 2003. The same year as the Iraq War America began embracing radical social values.
Being Western was no longer about having a washing machine and freedom of speech, it was about embracing values that most of the world considered an anathema.