Posted on 05/18/2015 11:06:25 AM PDT by Starman417
God dammit. Hussein was firing missiles at our pilots. That should end this whole line of questioning. Firing missiles at our pilots was an ongoing act of war that had to be responded to by going to war against Hussein. End of story.
If I knew then what I know now I would had left it a glass paved parking lot!
It was a mistake to invade Iraq only if one compares it with the better alternative of invading Iran. Iraq had lots of WMD but was not going to have a home built nuke. It is close enough to Israel that that was taken care of as it arose.
Pakistan we could entice and we needed that base. In the end, Pakistan is its own enemy.
Iraq has become the stage because our absence has given ISIS the key to the door. Obama made the mistake...not Bush.
And I was POTUS I would have Nuked the Capital City of Saudi Arabia less than a week after 9/11...
then I would I have cut off all foreign aid to all middle east countries that hate us or harbor groups that hate us.
Then i would have opened up all of the US public land fro drilling.
The USA should not fight such wars in the future.
Not because they can not be won (although certainly Iraq was probably more costly and difficult than expected). No - because the USA is too politically fractured and increasingly dis-unified in terms of common culture and sense of national identity to commit to the sacrifice needed for such long-term projects. Because of this, the expected costs of such wars are also unstated by policy makers.
The USA fought a war in the Philippines in 1899-1902, which killed over 6100 Americans - yet did this war split America, as the left did to the USA in 2004-2008? Why not?
If I knew then what I know now, not only would I have taken Hussein out, I would have done it in 1991. In addition, in 92 I would have taken out Bin Laden.
After that, everything else is irrelevant.
Paul Krugman: “Thanks to Jeb Bush throwing his brother and the GOP under the bus for our team....”
It’s a stupid question. You can’t logically use today’s knowledge to argue yesterday’s battle.
Our pilots who were over there doing the UNs bidding (even while the UN was smack-talking Americans every chance they got).
I don’t get your point. Are you saying that we shouldn’t have cared about American pilots being shot at because they were enforcing a no-fly zone pursuant to a UN Resolution?
If I knew that Obama would come along and hand Iraq over to terrorists I might have done things differently.
It was a stupid question and Megan Kelly should be called out for it.
NO ONE gets to make decisions in hindsight.
NO ONE.
EVER.
The question she should have asked is: If you knew what your brother knew AT THE TIME, would you have made the same decision. (Same question to Hillary)
And even that question is of questionable value. But at least it would have been logical.
Logical fallacy of “it begs the question.”
No, I’m saying we should not be the UN’s lackeys all the time (especially where it concerns the Middle East).
I would not invade any country, any time, for any reason.
My reasons are based on a first hand experience called Viet Nam. We could go anywhere we wanted, take anything we wanted, and keep anything we wanted - yet we ‘lost’ the war.
As a nation we have lost our willpower to finish anything that is even the least bit hard or distasteful. The people that fought World War II had it, and understood it - but somewhere shortly thereafter it was lost.
Invading anyplace with the current attitude of the American public just means we will get some of our very best people killed to accomplish nothing. Give me great pain to type that, but sadly it is true.
NOW "they"'ll start to say ... "we should'a ... "
And I'll throw my keyboard ...
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