I’m not a republican anymore, but I won’t be apologizing for the US going to war with Iraq.
Hussein used wmd’s against his own people, supported terrorist activities, threatened the US and her allies, and did not uphold the agreements regarding inspections following the Gulf War.
Had we not gone in, Hussein could have made good on those threats.
It’s always easy to be a Monday morning quarterback.
I flew missions over Iraq in the 1990s, thru 2001. I was shot at many times. The idea that we were at peace with Iraq in 2002 boggles my mind. I have no idea how many times I was shot at before the second Gulf War, but the first hadn’t ended anything...
Don’t forget he was firing missiles at our pilots on a routine basis. If ever grounds existed for going to war against a dictator they existed for going to war against Saddam Hussein. Every other dictator in the world got the message after 9/11 not to take any sort of hostile action against the United States with the exception of Hussein. Given that, we had no choice but to go to war against him.
Amen!
WMD were an invention of the Bolshies to make sure Bush could not go to war. Leave no doubt, WMD were there, or, the ability to make WMD quickly. Now, Jihadi have remnants of WMD that reasonable people would assume to be useless, but, people prone to suicidal killing would not find them useless at all.
The Iraq war was to show people that actions have consequences. zerO has shown people do what you want, there will be no consequences.
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.