Posted on 05/13/2015 6:41:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Not to defend Jeb Bush, but it’s pretty obvious he was too quick to defend his brothers decision and missed the full question...
I think we have all done that at times....
Still not going to vote for him...
Is that directed at Jeb, or the author of this piece?
Did anyone really believe he’d have stated anything to the contrary?
Really?
It wouldn’t have been a mixed bag, if Bush had ignored the liberals and really taken out all the people that needed to be and then gone into Iran and destroyed the leadership there.
The problem isn’t that Pres. Bush went into Iraq, but that he allowed his hands to be tied there with ridiculous rules of engagement and then didn’t go into Iran to get rid of the current gov’t there. (which btw would have been relatively easy at that time ....not so easy anymore)
I sometimes feel like a lone wolf saying these things to people.
First of all, W didn’t have the benefit of hindsight. Given what was “known” at the time, it would have been irresponsible to allow Saddam to stay in power.
But, as this author points out... even now, the decision looks to have been justified. The biggest mistake made was by Obama in completely removing our forces.
Of course he would have, because Jeb is owned by the same foreign powers as George.
I agree with him. Saddam had to be removed.
Yes. But that could have been done in Gulf War I. We can thank that worthless POS fake Republican Secretary Colin Powell for that. He saw the utter crippling defeat of Saddam’s forces in Kuwait and Southern Irag and the rapid drive to Baghdad coming and he became the true coward liberal that he is and always will be and convinced Bush to give it up.
Further, because of 9/11 it was easy to stretch the reason to invade and topple Saddam, but frankly he could have been assassinated, too. IMO, we didn’t need to spend more than a trillion dollars, and worse, lose over 3000 American soldiers’ lives to do it.
I’m must not into this piece-meal approach any more. If it is a real problem, I say nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
Not one word about the regional destabilization that unleashed radical islam to destroy Christian communities existing since apostolic times. Not one word.
But when have neocons ever given a thought to such things? Demented with dreams of secular messianism, America has been wreaking havoc worldwide like an out-of-control giant’s child for over a century now.
No we should not have gone into Iraq just to get rid of one bad guy. They have an endless supply of them. We’d be there for eternity.
This is stupid. We should ONLY go to war based on OUR national defense, period ... not to help some Muslims kill other Muslims.
I don’t care for Obama but it’s not fair to blame him for the Middle East erupting into sectarian religious civil wars. These have been going on for over 1000 years ... way before Obama, Bush or the USA for that matter.
These religious civil wars between Muslims have ZERO to do with us.
this
then of course, there’s the democrat party that joined the enemy in doing everything possible to ensure our mission in Iraq failed
if only Jeb had a spine to say so
Bush
“then of course, there’s the democrat party that joined the enemy in doing everything possible to ensure our mission in Iraq failed”
Exactly.
For whatever reason, Jeb wasn’t prepared for the question....he should have been.
I sure hope someone else rises to the top. I don’t want to vote for Jeb.
After killing Saddaam, what was the mission?
It seems to me it was to make Muslim people not be like Muslim people.
That’s a pretty dumb mission.
Why?
If Saddam was such a bad guy why didn’t someone else from the region remove him? Why was this our job?
Saddam may have been an evil tyrant but he was THEIR evil tyrant. And he kept the sectarian violence between Sunni and Shia in check. Sure he did it brutally, but what concern is that of ours or at least ours alone? Where were the other Muslim leadership if they really wanted him out?
I would have liked for him to say he would have went in the first time and actually finished the job.
I should have been understood that if we removed Saddam, it would require a commitment of at least twenty years to stay in Iraq afterward.
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