Posted on 09/22/2009 3:51:39 AM PDT by Saije
“he wants to blame Bush for the results...”
There was an easy way for Bush to avoid blame for losing the war—by winning it while he was in office. After eight years of directing the war he left Afghanistan in such a state that even after the addition of 20,000 troops, the US and NATO forces were on the verge of defeat just eight months after he left office.
Just as Nixon could not overcome eight years of mistakes made by JFK and LBJ in Vietnam, any president, and certainly an incompetent one such as Hussein, would have a difficult time winning in Afghanistan today.
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