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.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
And I was one of them. As despicable as Saddam Hussein was, he and his regime provided a good set of checks and balances between the Sunni/Shiite. Days of shifting the blame, is way overdue. And second guessing Bush's calls are over.
Well it is over 10 years later, and now you have a situation that is more the fault of Obama than Bush.
Obama is the one who :
(1) Decided to campaign on getting out of the country despite the circumstances.
(2) Has continued to capitulate and cower to the Muslims, even to the point of negotiating and surrendering Taliban generals for an enlisted soldier.
(3) Has had 6 years to formulate a contingency plan and other polices to prevent this getting to this point. How did this happen out of the blue? Intelligence ignored?
(4) Obama has shown his hand showing he does not want to engage Muslim extremist on many fronts. This has embolden the Taliban and other muslim terrorist organizations.
(5) Blaming your predecessor 6 years after your term starts is just a crutch for substandard leadership. Which is exactly what Obama has shown.
Agreeing with the LA Slimes on this matter is a stretch at best.
A shocking truth. It is time for Bush supporters to admit that he was worse for the country than Clinton.
Used your posted link but couldn’t find the story.......
Silly.
Or perhaps the last six years didn’t happen. There was a time warp.
Obama let the leader of ISIS out of Camp Bucca in 2009.
Obama ended the occupation.
That’s when this began and was able to happen.
They have to be fought.
They will not stop.
I guess Paul forgot who has been president the past 5 years.
Meanwhile . . . a fellow named Paul Whitefield at the Los Angeles Times preaches his own “wisdom”:
Having grown up living in a trailer — but having never, ever watched “Duck Dynasty” — I feel uniquely qualified to say this: Enough with the trailer-trash TV shows.
Patterico @Patterico
@PaulWhitefield1 I didn’t read your piece in the L.A. Times about Duck Dynasty, but I know it was garbage. Enough elitism in our newspapers!
11:01 PM - 22 Dec 2013
The LA Times is subscription based. Do a google news search for “Bush Cheney” and the article is readable without subscribing. That’s how I found it.
Paul Whitefield weighs in on gun control after the Georgia shooting: “What’s being done about it? A whole lot less than what’s been done to protect us from a few tainted capsules of Tylenol.”
Saturday, July 28, 2012
Paul Whitefield: “Think Obama’s A Muslim? Then You’re Too Stupid To Vote”
OMG Bush’s fault. Give that meme a rest already!
It’s Abraham’s fault for siring Ishmael ....
“To their credit, Bush and Cheney did try to fix it. Almost completed it, but then had to do a handoff to an incompetent.”
I agree. The bumbling idiot currently in the White House is truely incompetent. It is showing more and more as each day passes. Any number of people could fix the problem including Cheney.
MODEST PROPOSAL
apocalypse again — call up the vietnam vets
Where else can Bush get 21,500 trained soldiers for his ‘surge’?
By Paul Whitefield.
PAUL WHITEFIELD supervises the editorial pages’ copy desk.
January 21, 2007
LISTENING TO President Bush’s speech on Iraq earlier this month, my first thought was: “Where the heck are we going to get 21,500 more soldiers to send to Iraq?” Our Reserves are depleted, our National Guard is worn out, our Army and Marine Corps are stretched to the limit.
Then it hit me: Re-up our Vietnam War veterans and send them.
They’re trained. They’re battle-hardened. Many already have post-traumatic stress disorder. Also, some have their own vehicles — Harleys mostly, which are cheap to run, make small targets and are highly mobile. I’ll even bet that lots of these guys still have guns (you know, just in case).
OK, some vets are a bit long in the tooth (or don’t have teeth — because of Agent Orange?). Or their eyesight isn’t what it was. Or their reflexes have slowed. But with today’s modern weaponry, how well do you have to see?
Too out of shape, you say? Listen, if Rocky Balboa can step back into the ring at age 60, all these Vietnam War vets need is a little boot-camp magic and they’ll be good to go. I mean, who doesn’t want to drop a few pounds?
Don’t want geezers fighting for us? Well, let’s face it, our young people have greater value right here. Most of us want to retire and collect our hard-earned Social Security, and we need those youngsters here, working and paying taxes — lots of taxes.
Finally, these Vietnam War guys are hungry for revenge. After all, they fought in the only war the U.S. ever lost. And they didn’t even get a parade. So this is their chance. We can throw them that big parade when they come marching home.
See my tagline.
Dear Mr. Whitefield;
Congratulations. You have taken left wing journalism, even left coast journalism, to a new low with your tasteless, low-class article filled with Hollywood and Media-borne stereotypes of Vietnam veterans. My son who just served as a Green Beret weapons sergeant in Iraq does indeed have a Harley, a fancy chopper no less. Although I served as a Green Beret in Vietnam in 1968-1969, I hate motorcycles and would never own one. Another son earning his Green Beret at Fort Bragg will be going to Iraq this year, and has no intention of owning a bike, either. Gee, I guess that makes us all veterans and Americans who simply have a right to own motorcycles, doesn’t it. Your pony-tail, camouflage-fatigue wearing, bearded, drug-influenced, beer swilling, Easy Rider-looking image of Vietnam veterans is simply that, a Hollywood image. In fact, 8 out of 9 of those so-called Vietnam veterans you run into never even served in the military.
In regards to your remark that we are all angry because we lost that war. I don’t see Vietnam having to build a wall along their border to keep people from flooding into their country. Some countries like Vietnam have secret police and border patrols to keep their oppressed citizenry within their borders. We are in a quandary about how to keep people out because we have so much to offer. I don’t know if you have noticed but Hanoi would give every US statesmen a hooker and a case of whiskey if they thought it would further their goal of just getting some more free trade with us.
The American military won every major battle we fought in the Vietnam War, especially the 1968 Tet Offensive, but bass-voiced, pipe-smoking, grandfatherly Walter Cronkite declared the Tet Offensive a North Vietnamese victory and like the mindless, follow-the-leader wannabe journalists that most of the media elitists like you are, you all picked up on that and played the story to the hilt. In fact, leader of all North Vietnamese forces and outstanding military strategist General Vo Nguyen Giap wrote in his memoirs that the 1968 Tet Offensive broke the back of the NVA (North Vietnamese Army), and they suffered staggering losses and were ready to surrender to the US, however the US anti-war machine, with the US media greasing the gears was in full operations, and gave them hope, so he said in his own words they decided to hang on with bloody fingertips and hope the anti-war demonstrations would help them stay until eventual victory.
Sure we were never celebrated like other American war veterans, but we do not need short-sighted idiots like you to make us feel validated. I was there to serve God, my country, and an ideal, an American ideal that has much greater import than your misinformed opinion. Wasn’t it amazing how all those countries ravaged by the tidal waves a few years ago, those African nations dealing with an AID crisis, and the truly oppressed all over the world always turn to the country of Vietnam to bring in the Red Cross, volunteers, money, and assistance? I mean after all, they kicked our butts didn’t they? To the victors go the spoils and that shining spot of human freedom and personal dignity, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is what all countries want to be just like, according to your thinking.
We Vietnam veterans, the real ones, who have a higher per capita income level, education level, and lower arrest rates than any other large group of Americans of the same age, did not lose the Vietnam War, Mr. Whitefield. We won! We kicked the enemy’s ass to the bamboo-constructed curb, just like our children and grandchildren are doing now in the Global War on Terrorism, but there is one big difference: The American kids in harm’s way today need not worry, because Vietnam veterans like me will not allow liberal media elitists like you do to them what you all did to us back then. Sure, you will not print my letter, as your rag has proven it cares not one whit about balance, but this email will go all over the internet, all over the world, and people will applaud the fact that you have been taken to the woodshed, which we will do every time you try to disrespect our military. Some men in suits played word games for political expedience in regards to the outcome of the Vietnam War, but make no mistake, we won, and I am very proud to be a Vietnam veteran, and if you can shut me up, there are 10 more Vietnam vets who will stand in my place. Guys like you try to make the anti-war machine build up steam, but each time you do, we will poke holes in the boiler. I put my life on the line for what I believed in: What about you?
Blessings,
Don Bendell
Bendell Enterprises PO Box 276
Canon City , Colorado 81215-0276 (719) 269-3929
Indeed. They are trying to destroy Arizona.
Is it just my imagination are the hero of benghazi’s scandals and tragedies coming almost daily?
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