people conveniently forget (probably intentionally ignore) that the primary argument for invading iraq was WMD, which everyone on the planet — from bill clinton, to the UN, to harry reid, and john kerry — had argued vociferously for the better part of as decade that it was in the united states’ naitonal interest to remove.
and, quite frankly, were (a) not only there, but discovered, albeit not in the stockpiles that US intelligence universally assessed, and (b) said stockpiles were probably moved to syria while the french dicked us around in the security council.
the rest of your post is a grab bag of especially exquisite monday morning quarterbacking, but we’ll tick a few of them off. radical islam may have been suppressed within the boarders of iraq, but that is is a totally vacuous statement, since dictators, by definition, suppress just about everything. donald trump wasn’t on the menu in 2001, and if he had been, it’s entirely uncertain which party and which platform he would have run on. the entire notion that iraq was a flop is perhaps the most spectacular bit of revisionist dishonesty in american history — and that really is saying something. 50 or so americans were killed in iraq in 2010. the country was thoroughly pacified. it was critical to obama’s world view that the bush doctrine of preemption be retroactively proven false, no matter the consequences; liberals can’t function in a world were preemption is a provably effective foreign policy tool.
it’s just beyond me why alleged conservatives want to hand out obamite talking points — and the bit about GWB, our only president to even have an MBA, being stupid is undoubtedly the scuzziest liberal lie in several generations. I assume they just lost heart, or lost their spine, or decided that living in a world built on The Big Lie wasn’t so bad after all.
whatever the case, the truth is having a pretty rough go of it at here at FR where it pertains to the iraq war.
You have hit on an important distinction between conservatives and Republicans. Some of us never bought into a lot of the political cheerleading for GWB that was complete B.S. Very little of his agenda was conservative by any objective measure. The whole family — along with a lot of people who held positions in the Bush administration — exposed themselves as leftist frauds during the 2016 campaign. No wonder so many of them openly endorsed Hillary Clinton. She would have been GWB’s successor as an open-borders globalist in the White House.
Do you really believe Iraq was a threat to the U.S. that warranted the kind of military intervention we brought to that dump? Do you really believe Saddam Hussein had WMDs, but decided to ship them out of the country rather than use them to protect himself?