Opinion: Bush, Cheney created the Iraq mess; why not make them try to fix it?

Los Angeles Times ^ | June 12, 2014 | by PAUL WHITEFIELD

[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.

[morphing libertarian]

Give Cheney command he will fix it.

[Cicero]

Actually, it’s Mohammed’s fault.

[2ndDivisionVet]

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

[catfish1957]

MSM lackeys are already in Blame Bush mode. I guess we didn’t have a state department the last 6 years. /s

[Carry_Okie]

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

Actually, by the time all the life-long medical costs are done, current estimates run to $3 trillion.

[Nachum]

Put the adults back in charge and they will.

[kingattax]

another article by some braindead lefty moron that couldn’t find his own arse with both hands and a flashlight.

[blueunicorn6]

Dear Democrats:

If there are any adults left in the Democrat Party, will you please take Obama to Summer camp so he can make ashtrays? Thank you.

[BenLurkin]

Yup.

[BenLurkin]

Works for me!

[CincyRichieRich]

Spoiled, pajama boy liberal moron.

[Fungi]

These people are deranged. Six years into the fool on the hill's term and they are still blaming Bush. This is one reason why this worthless excuse for a newspaper—more appropriately called a propaganda rag—will die a slow painful death. No one will miss it, no one reads it.

[CyberAnt]

Well .. how long did that take for “it’s all Bush’s fault” to surface ..??

[4rcane]

No, Its not Bush’s fault, its Clintons fault because Bush inherited the problem from Clinton

[taildragger]

Put Col. West in charge, it will get fixed, REAL QUICK....

[Alberta's Child]

For all their hysterics, they’re absolutely right on this one. Iraq has been an unmitigated disaster since the U.S. toppled the Ba’athist government of Saddam Hussein, and many of us predicted it right here on FreeRepublic way back in 2003.

[Fitzy_888]

Has the LA Times considered that perhaps Obama was sandbagged in Syria. Responding to ever more requests for arms, training and yes money that was stockpiled by the rebels for this ISIS/ISIL operation...???

That’s the $492 million dollar question it seems. They did knock down a berm for a truck convoy from Syria to Iraq.

[supremedoctrine]

In a sense, Obambi was right a few years ago,about Al Qaeda being on the run. They’re in the run from ISIS.

[xzins]

To their credit, Bush and Cheney did try to fix it. Almost completed it, but then had to do a handoff to an incompetent.