Posted on 06/22/2014 10:48:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
No, I remember how Powell and Bush were horrified by the networks showing of the destruction General Schwarzkopf was going through heading toward Baghdad; and Bush took Powell’s advice in stopping Schwarzkopf.
Correct. Our effort was never unilateral as the media brainwashed the sheeple into.believing.
The vote in Congress was bipartisan...the UN was onboard and all Intel from various countries pointed to WMD. Plus it was Clinton who.issued the Iraqi Liberation Act not.Bush.
No deal, Dick? Then go clean up that mess yourself.
So you blame Bush for what is happening now?
Exactly! And people soon forget what Clinton did to Iraq in Desert Fox (though he did do it to avoid his scandals). He was quick to off on sign H.R. 4655!
The whole issue of whether the U.S. was "going in alone" of if it was part of a multi-national force was complete bullsh!t, anyway. The U.S. did not need military assistance from any other country in any of these military campaigns -- which means the multi-national aspect of them was nothing more than a political measure to somehow make these military campaigns more acceptable to Americans.
Rule #1 for me on this is: Don't ever expect me to take you seriously if you're going play political games with military engagements.
Might have been. Either way it was the right decision.
When conservatives here on FreeRepublic are holding up a piece of legislation from the Clinton Administration to support an argument in favor of U.S. military action overseas, I’d say we’ve pretty much put the whole conservative movement to shame.
Likewise when people here support exactly what Obama has done in pulling out our troops from Iraq before its time and hamstringing the US so that terrorists like ISIS can move in.
Rand Paul lost what little support or respect I had for him...he is certainly his Father’s Son..
I fully will support TED CRUZ for 2016...
Nope, I totally disagree. We will eventually be going back and we will not be as strong, willing or able then. We will have more than double the rules of engagement - which I did not agree with during Bush I.
Ditto - Cruz in 2016!
Cheney is right. We need to finish what we started a decade earlier. Obomao just does not understand.
The biggest mistake the U.S. made over there was in deluding itself into thinking that Iraq even had a sovereign government that was capable of negotiating any kind of agreements like that.
P.S. -- The U.S.-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement was signed by George W. Bush in 2008.
(cel...my initials!!!)
Time for NEW BLOOD, NEW IDEAS, AND ONE WHO STILL SHOWS RESPECT TO OUR LORD...
HAVE A GREAT SUNDAY FOLKS...
Hindsight is wonderful. But it changes nothing and we never seem to learn that doing the same thing again will somehow have better results this time. Thus the mess we are in today.
That was the only point in the video. Don't ever expect me to take you seriously if you're going play political games with military engagements.
I'll grant you that, don't tie the hands of our military with unnecessary "rules of engagement"! Bring it back to at least WW2 level.
Rand Paul is a Libtardian moron!
I'm with you on that. His, and Rumfeld's, actual statements after the invasion are just appalling.
But none of this should give the Democrats any comfort. They are just as complicit in this mess. Both sides need to be honest about their mistakes, so this sort of thing won't happen again.
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