A few other things of note:
1. The Left hates the Iraq war, but still wants to be able to attack Trump on Saddam's human rights record?
2. This is a RARE photo of Trump with his mouth closed by the MSM.
No easier / cheaper way to make someone to look bad than use the photo of them with their mouth open speaking. About 90% of the MSM photos of Trump do this stunt.
It takes a savage to rein in savages.
I agree with him on that, and I don’t want to, because I cheered when the statue of Saddam came down.
I cheered when he got captured. And I watched his execution, but I don’t recall cheering that.
But now look what has become of all that.
This is a real mess, and we made it.
Damn.
Brutal Muslim dictators have an excellent record of keeping the jihadist radical Islamists under control. Osama Bin Laden fled to Afghanistan where Taliban was ruling, a radical Muslim regime.
American military can conquer any Muslim country, and de-throne the non-jihadi dictators (Saddam, Qaddafi, Mubarak) but it is done on China credit card, and American public will never go for multiple decades long occupation, with constant killing of our soldiers by radical islamists.
I suppose so. Appendicitis at least keeps the poisons cooped up. We’ve managed to burst the containment and are seeing the poison invade the body.
But sooner or later, the appendage has to come out.
The dumbest idea was to go to Iraq and overthrow Saddam
The second dumbest idea was to pull out
Seven years ago I would not have agreed with him on that. But after 6+ years of seeing Obama screw things up so bad he is right.
Trump is right.
Sad to say, there are some societies that are so fragmented/Balkanized (like obozo is trying to make this one!) that it takes a strong man to keep the lid on. Not all nations will or even CAN embrace the system we have here and obozo is attempting to destroy (so HE can become the strong man/dictator?).
In 1939, FDR — that hero of the left — remarked about Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza that “He may be a SOB but he’s OUR SOB!”
There ya’ go!
Obama blew both not Bush.
I agree...
Kaddafi, yes - Libya is a tough place and he alone could have kept it under control and I have seen nothing that he was helping AQ.
Saddam had to go. He was a major player in supporting anti-American and anti-Israel terrorist groups. He is the one who paid Palestinian mothers $10,000 for each child who became a suicide bomber - Iraq was a safe haven for terrorists of any stripe.
He's right.
Again
He’s right. Their religion doesn’t allow for democracy. Iraq was mostly a secular country keeping Iran in check. Why did we want to change that?
I agree with Trump on this, even though I also agree Saddam was unjust and an enemy of the US.
At the time however, he was a known enemy, and our current society is ill equipped to handle the unrecognized dangers of the Muslim springtime.
I disagree with him when he says the world would be a better place.
The Middle East might
Khadaffi was neutered after the U. S. went into Iraq.
He saw the handwriting on the wall, called us up and volunteered to surrender his weapons programs.
Hussein was not an innocent and it’s a terrible re-write of history to excuse Hussein as merely someone we didn’t like.
He’s right!!!! Lot of Iraqi and Syrian Christians would still be alive, and in their homes!!!! Libya wold not be the new Somalia! And Europe wold not be as inundated with migrants.
The world would also be a better place if Rhodesia had not been brought down, or Maronite-ruled Lebanon, or Yugoslavia!
Blame the human-rightsers, neocons, and liberal interventionists (e.g. Hillary, Samantha, and McCain).
Trump is wrong. Hussein was responsible for the deaths of 1.3 million innocents. He used poison gas on his own people. He invaded Kuwait. As he was leaving, he burned the oil wells. By now he might have had a nuke.
What went wrong in Iraq was the 2008 election.
Certainly true for the late Shah of Iran.
And like the inspector said, unless they tell us where they are, we aren't going to find them.
Anyone with half a brain knew Saddam still had some weapons.
Khadafi should have been left alone. He gave up his chem weapons years before and had good control over the rebels.
He’s right. Creating chaos in the Middle East has been a disaster. Especially for Christian...genocide!!!!! The mulsims have strong armed rulers for a reason. They are animals.