Saddam’s military was smaller than Iran. Yet he held off Iran in a 10 year war. Saddam never threatened or had the means to attack United States with his “wmd’s”. There was ZERO imminent and present danger to our homeland. The WMD mirage was Saddam’s ruse to scare Iran from attacking the weaker Iraq.
Results of Bush’s Iraq war:
1. National debt jacked up by $2,000,000,000,000. It was a war Bush-43 started on a credit card. We will pay interest on that debt for ever. Because we have no budget surpluses to pay any part of the principle.
Tens of thousand of brave young American soldiers injured or killed.
2. Iraq is now splintered.
3. Iran controls most of Iraq. The radical Islamist Mullah’s are much stronger with control over Iraq’s oil.
4. Rest of Iraq under control of ISIS, who now control lot of Iraqi oil.
5. Libya is now under control of radical Islamists.
6. Yemen is now under control of radical Islamists.
7. Egypt fell under control of radical Islamists. We got very lucky that the military succeeded in ousting Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
8. Syria is now a total kerfuffle.
9. The 911 terrorists were Saudi’s, not Iraqi’s.
None of the above 9 disasters could happen if we left the Muslim dictators alone. They were all successfully controlling the radical Islamists.
Bush-43’s Iraq war will go down in history books as the worst foreign policy blunder since Vietnam war.
Trump is absolutely right, we elect very stupid leaders. Bush-43 & Barack Hussein are 2 prime examples.
Bush-43’s Iraq war will go down in history books as the worst foreign policy blunder since Vietnam war.
I believe you're right about Iraq being a major blunder on Bush's part, now that we have the benefit of hindsight. And while the dictators since removed did provide for a stabilizing effect on radicals to some degree, in time we would see what we're seeing today.
One of our biggest threats is still Islam and anyone who thinks it's a religion of peace is ignorant of Mohamed's teachings and Islam's history of evil.
Not once did any congressman ask Sec. Clinton, why the hell did you support bombing Qaddafi and help to destabilize that country? It was all Benz, but nothing about the current mess. There has been no serious accountability on our foreign policy for years.
Agree it’s been a disaster and has hurt our reputation world wide.
How can one blame the trouble in Libya on Bush? This is faulty, obviously, Obama/Clinton/McCain(?) are responsible for the Libyan invasion. Yemen is hard to blame on Bush as well. Egypt is hard to blame on Bush. We should not have withdrawn troops from Iraq, that is a problem too, so maybe in that case, one can split the blame if one has too.
Assad let Jihadis attack Iraq from Syria, there is really a lot of blame to go around.
All of that list can be laid to the feet of Obama and Hillary.
None of those are the result of what Bush did, but of what Obama did afterward, in particular Libya was Hillary’s War.
Had Obama continued Bush’s policies and deployments with the same ROEs, then Iraq would likely be stable and not under Iranian control. Gaddafi would still be around as would Mubarak.
Syria has always been within Russia’s sphere of influence if for no other reason than Antioch where Russian Orthodox began.
Trump is absolutely wrong. Both of you are buying into the liberal meme.