It may have been a mistake for the United States to go to war in Iraq.
Given that Bin Laden has said this:
The most important and serious issue today for the whole world is this third world war, which the Crusader-Zionist coalition began against the Islamic nation," Osama bin Laden said in an audiotape posted on Islamic Web sites in December 2004. "It is raging in the land of the Two Rivers. The world's millstone and pillar is Baghdad, the capital of the caliphate."
By going into Iraq, Bush has destroyed Bin Laden's ability to reconstitute the Caliphate. Checkmate, end of game.
“How can Kelly suggest the following:
It may have been a mistake for the United States to go to war in Iraq.”
There are several inescapable negatives to the Iraq War:
First is the loss of life by several thousand of our best Americans.
Second is the rise in influence of Iran, over both Iraq and the Persian Gulf.
Third is the immense financial cost to the USA.
Fourth are the serious political losses to the Republican Party here in the USA.
It’s great that we have Al Qaeda on the run in Iraq, and every political candidate should be forced to acknowledge what the real truth is. Even with that great news, it’s not clear to me that the Iraq war, in 20-20 hindsight, was a good idea.