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Opinion: Bush, Cheney created the Iraq mess; why not make them try to fix it?
Los Angeles Times ^ | June 12, 2014 | by PAUL WHITEFIELD

Posted on 06/12/2014 5:00:44 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Well, gee, $1 trillion or so just doesn’t buy what it used to. Take Iraq, for example.

Or, should I say: Take Iraq, please, someone — and fix it. Fend off the nasty Islamic fighters of ISIS and keep that miserable sinkhole for American lives and money from coming back to bite us — again.

Do you understand now, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, John Bolton and all you neocon nutjobs, why the invasion of Iraq in 2003 wasn’t a very good idea?

President Obama sure does. Because now he’s neck deep in another crisis in this place, a country he thought he had gotten us out of, as he promised to do.

Now, I do have one somewhat off-the-wall option: Send Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney over there and let them try to negotiate a solution. And tell them they can’t come home until they’re successful. After all, they’re the ones who created this mess in the first place.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bushsfault; iraq; journalism; mediabias; oef; wot
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To: catfish1957

This is too easy for the MSM types. Oh goodie, we get to write another trash Bush article...


21 posted on 06/12/2014 5:09:07 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: 4rcane

It’s World War I’s fault and breaking up the Ottoman Empire and creating Iraq because it looked pretty on a map that way.


22 posted on 06/12/2014 5:09:50 PM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Too bad we didn’t lock Saddam up in Gitmo.


23 posted on 06/12/2014 5:10:09 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: xzins

I think if you did a confidential poll, 99% of the military would like to be rid of the Hero of Benghazi. Some command staff who owe their promotions to him might favor him. That’s it.


24 posted on 06/12/2014 5:11:22 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( On to impeachment and removal (IRS, Taliban, Fast and furious, VA, Benghazi)!!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Pick any average businessman who pays taxes, hires and fires, and meets a payroll and he’d do a more competent job than the clown posse in DC.


25 posted on 06/12/2014 5:12:06 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Paul Whitefield

Whitefield--Flaming liberal says Bush did it though 0bummer's been in office 5 1/2 years and still has no foreign policy.

Pauly will be able to write another screed when the same thing is repeated in Afghanistan because of 0bummer.

26 posted on 06/12/2014 5:12:26 PM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

27 posted on 06/12/2014 5:12:38 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Herr Obozo will not divert resources from his war on Americans to help our Veterans!)
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To: morphing libertarian

“Give Cheney command he will fix it.”

Rapidly.


28 posted on 06/12/2014 5:14:32 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Hey, Mitt Romney fixed the Winter Olympics, maybe he can do this, too?”

Whether you like Mitt or not, any sensible person can see that there is no way we would be in any of the many messes we are in today, if Mitt were president.

All those who stayed home and sulked and allowed Obama to get elected — TWICE — are reaping what they sowed, unfortunately all the rest of us are suffering too as a result of their lack of common sense.


29 posted on 06/12/2014 5:15:09 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Send Jimmy Carter.


30 posted on 06/12/2014 5:15:46 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
It could be argued that this is all the liberals mess because of their traitorous behavior for the past 7 years and their attempts at appeasement with Iran and the rest of the mooselimb crazies.
31 posted on 06/12/2014 5:16:06 PM PDT by crazyhorse691 (Obama is just the symptom of what is destroying the U.S.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Dear Mr. Paul Whitefield

Try stopping being an asshole!

32 posted on 06/12/2014 5:16:22 PM PDT by Focault's Pendulum (I live in NJ....should' Nuff said!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s never the left’s fault.....even though Bush and Cheney predicted this before Obama was even elected.


33 posted on 06/12/2014 5:16:52 PM PDT by dila813
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The author of this *article*...

Paul Whitefield
@PaulWhitefield1
Editor/blogger @latimes presenting a slightly skewed view of the news


At least he’s honest about that ^^.


34 posted on 06/12/2014 5:17:26 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: morphing libertarian

We just explain to the world we will no longer “intervene on behalf of freedom” unless we have the oil contracts in hand on the day we go in. I mean, the Left still squeels that Irag was a “war for oil” and we got screwed by the bastards. Money up front next time!


35 posted on 06/12/2014 5:18:50 PM PDT by 50sDad (A Liberal prevents me from telling you anything here.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That’s pretty bad.
After only 6 years even the LIbs want Bush back!!!


36 posted on 06/12/2014 5:19:12 PM PDT by CrappieLuck
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To: Alberta's Child

Glad to see that you are back and trying so hard to relive the era of your only hit song.


37 posted on 06/12/2014 5:19:26 PM PDT by crazyhorse691 (Obama is just the symptom of what is destroying the U.S.)
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To: Innovative

No, we’d be in different messes.


38 posted on 06/12/2014 5:21:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2Million USD for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: 50sDad

Let’s see the oil leases.

I remember the video of a woman, on her knees, being shot in the soccer stadium of Kabul, then ruled by the Taliban. Stadium built with funds from the UN.

She had showed some ankle getting out of a Van.

And we have some members of congress saying the Taliban are not terrorists.


39 posted on 06/12/2014 5:21:47 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( On to impeachment and removal (IRS, Taliban, Fast and furious, VA, Benghazi)!!!)
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To: crazyhorse691

It’s an easily predictable liberal failure because Obama withdrew from Iraq in 2011 without a SOFA for political reasons, not conditions on the ground. His political team calculated he could not win in 2012 if any troops were still in Iraq. Just like his political team calculated he could not win if Behghazi was a terrorist attack. Or if people knew the truth about Obamacare. And on, and on,


40 posted on 06/12/2014 5:22:51 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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