Here’s one real conservative who doesn’t support the “war on terror”. Thanks for the smear.
The war in Iraq has nothing to do with a “war on terror”. It was motivated by two factors: (1) payback for Saddam’s attempt to whack George Sr. after the Kuwaiti war and (2) to permanently remove the threat to the Bush family’s buddies in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the UAE. After the Baathist regime was decapitated, the US had no responsibility to “nation build” and maintain the artificial political entity known as Iraq. The US should have seized the oil fields, given logistical support and air protection to the Kurds, and then let the Sunnis and Shias have at each other. There would have eventually been a partition of Iraq into three countries, without significant loss of American lives and expenditure of hundreds of billions of US dollars. The Iraqi civil war will take place once the Americans eventually leave and it will prove that the past 7 years have been a collossal waste. Had the Americans spent those same resources in Afghanistan, Bin Laden’s head would be on a stick and the Taliban would be a footnote in history.