Ron Paul’s specific objections to the wars as documented in the speeches he made on the House floor in 2003 were remarkably prescient and on point. Ron Paul is an American Cassandra. There were many conservatives, many right here on FR, who opposed the American interventions in the Mideast caldron.
Sorry but there is a concerted effort to absolve GW Bush and his allies from responsibility for this fiasco. Yet in retrospect Bush was aware that it was primarily Saudis that planned and executed 9/11. What is more, American intellegence later learned that Saudi intelligence was aware of the plot, knew it was financed from wealthy Saudis.They never stopped it or informed the Americans. Bush, who’s family became incredibly wealthy in oil dealings with those same Saudis, instead of holding the corrupt, vile Saudis accountable, decided instead to invade Iraq. Iraq was the prime enemy and threat to the Saudis. The pretext was “weapons of mass destruction” that were not found to exist. The result was over 6,000 brave young Americans dead, tens of thousands more physically and psychologically maimed, $3 trillion squandered, a severe American financial crisis and recession that paved the way for the catostrophic Obama administration.
History is a harsh judge and no amount of revisionism will change it.
Yes, your revisionist attempt is futile exercise in balderdacious historical fantasy
The author seems to be engaging in propaganda. Aided in some ways by 20/20 hindsight, but propaganda nonetheless. Probably trying to use Gulf War II as a wedge issue for some reason.
A sizable contingent of Iraq War critics was found here on FR at the time. Most of them were banned or self-exiled. I’m one of the few “survivors.” In retrospect, I’d say the conservative critics of the Iraq War were the same people who never bought into the Branch Covidian hysteria over the last year. At the risk of sounding arrogant, I’d say we have three characteristics that make us immune to that sort of silly propaganda:
1. We are reasonably intelligent.
2. We operate under a set of principles instead of politics, and don’t deviate from those principles lightly.
3. We never accept what people in positions of authority tell us at face value. For an increasing number of people in government and the media today, we don’t listen to them at all.
I was against the Iraq war.
W wanted to get back at Saddam for trying to kill his father. W put family business ahead of what was good for the country. He turned the entire Middle East (and North Africa) into the hell hole it is now. How did that “They’ll throw rose pellets at out feet” plan work out? W, the worst republic president ever, is an arrogant idiot.
As far as I am concern George W Bush is a traitor and should be hung.