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Republicans: Now is the time to admit you were wrong about the Iraq War
The Week ^ | 06/20/2014 | Michael Brendan Dougherty

Posted on 06/20/2014 6:21:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

With forces in Afghanistan & Iraq, we could monitor and do even more with the main sponsor of so much evil, Iran. Geography, another lost art. Obambi is empowering most of freedom’s enemies.


61 posted on 06/20/2014 7:27:14 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I admit I was wrong. I thought after 9/11 the left wouldn’t stab us in the back so thoroughly. I also didn’t appreciate how closely they are getting to Muslim Brotherhood and other jihad organizations.


62 posted on 06/20/2014 7:40:26 PM PDT by sgtyork (Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy)
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To: SeekAndFind

We were wrong, because we didn’t expect that the democrats would use it to elect a guy who was incompetent and would destroy everything we won, and leave things worse.

Oh wait, Obama has done that in MULTIPLE countries, not just Iraq. He didn’t need Bush’s help to screw up Libya and Syria, or Ukraine.


63 posted on 06/20/2014 7:40:48 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: SeekAndFind

BULLSHIT!


64 posted on 06/20/2014 8:10:52 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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BULL! If we fought this war like we fought WWII - which is to say - fight for a resounding victory and then fight to keep the peace - then establish a NATO like presence there - this could have changed the course of events for the next 200 years.

A lack of a global vision and political commitment to see this till the end is what lost this for us.

65 posted on 06/20/2014 8:14:06 PM PDT by capydick (''Life's tough.......it's even tougher if you're stupid.'')
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To: SeekAndFind

So now that Obama has intentionally lost Iraq and Saddam’s WMD’s have been found, NOW those who wanted an invasion should admit THEY were wrong? That’s funny.


66 posted on 06/20/2014 8:54:02 PM PDT by Crucial (Tolerance at the expense of equal treatment is the path to tyranny.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Mmmm. Gas plant?


67 posted on 06/20/2014 8:56:43 PM PDT by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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68 posted on 06/20/2014 8:58:59 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: SeekAndFind

We were wrong that Democrats and Communists gave a damn about “war crimes”, they let Sec. of State Hillary Clinton crow about getting a POW named Momar Gaddafi tortured and murdered “WE came, WE saw, HE DIED!!!”. Also the current foreign “insurgency” is committing war crimes on their rampage into Iraq without Leftard protest about human rights or imperialism.


69 posted on 06/20/2014 11:38:25 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: SeekAndFind

No, it is not our fault that the Obama administration is incompetent and just sat there and did nothing while the terrorists gathered strength and continued to do nothing when they launched their assault and took over major cities and significant territory. All of this that is happening is the result of Obama’s policies.


70 posted on 06/20/2014 11:41:48 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Romulus

Except for the fact it had been won.


71 posted on 06/20/2014 11:44:23 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Reddy

That is a blatant lie. He never came out for gay marriage, he stated that he was against those wanted to kill gays.

You Beck haters are really pathetic.


72 posted on 06/21/2014 1:45:41 AM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: combat_boots

Pretty much the truth.


73 posted on 06/21/2014 1:58:14 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Never. That’s my point.


74 posted on 06/21/2014 5:04:38 AM PDT by Arlis
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“Yes, the republicans should admit they were wrong about the Iraq war when the democrats admit they were wrong about zero.”

The RATS demanded a new vote on the Iraq resolution so they could vote FOR the war, they almost immediately began undermining the war effort to insure a Bush loss. The war would have gone differently if the RAT party didnt turn traitor.


75 posted on 06/21/2014 5:07:21 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The reason for the war was to rid the world of Saddam Hussein.

Once he is gone, there can be change. The current change is the sorting out of lots of old scores. It is not only necessary but desirable.

The new fertile crescent is actually an Iranian Containment Zone. Iran is being squeezed. Iranian Kurds will be lost if not in reality, in spirit to the new Kurdish free zone that extends in practice if not reality into Turkey.

Syria is disabled as the dirty working surrogate. Absent Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas are weakened. The pressure on Israel is diminished.

The fruit basket turnover is by design, it is good, it takes time, decades even to regather .

The prosperity of the Gulf can grow and encompass a greater area of the region.


76 posted on 06/21/2014 5:13:56 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: SeekAndFind
The war was wrong because we took out a crazed dictator who had control over crazed maniacs. Then we obliterated crazed dictators who controled crazed maniacs in Egypt, Libya, Ukraine (those dang Nazis), and now still trying to get rid of Assad.

Here's a novel idea. If these finger-pointers were sincere, they'd prop up Assad, work with the new dictator in Egypt, work with Putin to get the Nazi element out of Ukraine, call a "time out" from Saudi/EU/US/global interest, and eliminate ISIS from the planet before this rogue terrorist group destroys global civilization.

I'm fed up with the finger pointing about Iraq. Just about nobody except Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich got it right, with passion. Instead, work together to get it correct today and stop propping up "freedom fighters" to destroy govs. And get rid of the ISIS cancer.

Then the pols can go back to their usual level of stupidity and bowing to their global masters.

JMHO

77 posted on 06/21/2014 5:28:59 AM PDT by grania
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The Tsarnov brothers weren’t a “serious act of terror”?


78 posted on 06/21/2014 5:34:59 AM PDT by grania
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To: Reddy

Liberal rats ignore that the war was pretty much over until Obama lost it. I was there in 2011. Baghdad was pretty quiet at the time.


79 posted on 06/21/2014 5:51:53 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: SeekAndFind

I was not in favor of the war, because I knew the peace would be lost by a liberal administration. I’m also not in favor of fighting the UN’s wars.

That being said, once we had conquered Iraq we should have occupied the country as a counterpoint to the bad actors (at the time Syria and Iran). Iraq was strategically placed for us to moderate the middle east.

Obama knew this and that is why he felt he must remove the US presence. That and his other actions have enabled a modern caliphate to become organized. Obama’s goal IMHO.


80 posted on 06/21/2014 6:00:59 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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