Once America took Iraq out, the dominoes fell and Iran came out pretty well. Without Bush and Obama idiocy, the Mideast would be much “better” off. Al Qaeda Iraq emerged under Bush and Obama is the father of ISIS. What a colossal disaster.
Without American intervention, Saddam would have kept Kuwait, and was already moving forces toward taking Saudi Arabia. With over half the world’s oil output, he would have become a superpower. It is unlikely that he would have stopped there.
#9. Don’t forget Saddam’s plans for nuclear weapons were still around, just hidden, like some of his other CBW programs. My son’s unit captured Soviet-Bloc style CBW Green suits just east of Hindaya, on the East Bank of the Euphrates River, after April 3, 2003 when the 3rd ID, using the combined units of the 54th Engineer Battalion and the 299th Engineers - MRB Company out of Ft. Belvoir, Va, seized the cement bridge between the West and East banks of that river.
My son said that the ammo/equipment bunkers were stocked to the ceilings (about 9-10 ft high). This wasn’t the “Ted Mack Amateur Hour” show to be put on by Saddam.
It was Obama who sold us out in Iraq and led to the successful rise of ISIS.