Saddam Hussein was exactly the leader Iraq needed. He was a scumbag dictator who knew full well how to keep the faces of The Greater Islamic Scum down in the dirt where they belong. The removal of Hussein from power was a major foreign policy blunder on our part, a blunder which I myself supported at the time. My excuse: I wasn’t being paid to know better.
Just like Kaddaffy and Assad, and though I wouldn’t put him in the same category as the others, Mubarak.
What do they all have in common?
Right there with you. I now think the First Gulf War was a mistake, who cares about Kuwait? Just Muzzies who do a slightly better job of acting like our "friends", like the Saudis.
The US needs to stop picking winners and losers in the Strong Man category of third world countries. We simply don't do it well. We need to stop.
G.W. Bush took a gambled our soldiers lives and a trillion dollars that Iraqis would live rather together in freedom and prosperity than butcher each other to settle old scores. Bush’s biggest problem was he really believed that everyone has the same values we do. They don’t. It was noble and well intentioned, but as they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Me, too. “Some people are fit only to be ruled by despots.” That saying, from a long deceased British, applies particularly well to all Mudslimes. Yet, a somewhat friendly word for Bush. He, unlike the Mahdi, seemed able to learn from his mistakes. When he decided to deal with Quaddafi, instead of destroying another bloody Islamic ruler, he used the threat of force most effectively to flip him and make him our ally. The Mahdi, of course, on seeing that success and how helpful Quaddafi was, decided to overthrow him and murder him, and did so. That left the door open to the Madhi’s co-religionists, AQ and the MB. So, thanks primarily to the Mahdi, here we are now looking at the prospect of many more 9/11s.
“The removal of Hussein from power was a major foreign policy blunder on our part, a blunder which I myself supported at the time. My excuse: I wasn’t being paid to know better.”
Back then, I knew better, but I was labeled a “Troll” when I said so.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1227083/posts
I agree. Actually Bush I did that better than Bush II. Bush I shoved him back in his box. Of Course Saddam made the mistake of trying to assassinate Bush II’s father which IMO was a major factor into the invasion. Sure it was blamed on WMDs etc and 9/11 but I always believed it was also a personal matter with Bush II.
I've often said that most of us in the public don't know enough real intelligence to draw intelligent conclusions. I felt the same way about Saddam, myself.
There were a lot of people saying we should leave Hussein in power in Iraq. All we had to do is look at the past. Dictators are in place because initially they’re needed. Saddam Hussein kept the radicals in check. That’s why Bin Laden hated him. So any vacuum in Iraq was created by us.
honest statement BUT bumbrain BUsh wanted revenge for Sadam trying to assinate his father and being one with narrow eyes and a tiny brain he fell for the revenge angle....Iraq was 100% his arrogant dumb bushhead brain
Make that two of us!
We should have just bombed the hell out of him for 365 days and left. Then, 5 years later, do it all over again.
Thousands of our guys would be alive today and tens of thousands of THEM would be dead.
We need bigger bombers that carry more bombs and are fuel efficient with no pilots. Call em RCB’s for Remote Control Bombers....
Hussein was responsible for the deaths of about 1.3 million innocents. He had nuclear scientists working in Libya. After he was captured, he told his CIA handler that his planned to gear up the nuke program when the heat was off.
Okay, let’s say he was not taken out of power. What happens when he again goes after all the region’s oil fields? We are held hostage over oil because the radical enviros here will not let us get our own energy.
What happens when he has developed a nuclear weapon and sells it to a terrorist, who will deploy it on Wall Street? When that happens, you know what? It is too late. We could not wait for that possibility.
What went wrong in Iraq is that Barack Hussein Obama was elected in 2008.