Posted on 03/19/2016 1:14:05 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
On this day in 2003, President George W. Bush addresses the nation via live television and announces that Operation Iraqi Freedom has begun. Bush authorized the mission to rid Iraq of tyrannical dictator Saddam Hussein and eliminate Hussein’s ability to develop weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Operation Iraqi Freedom illustrated the Bush administration’s pledge to use unilateral, pre-emptive strikes if necessary against nations believed dangerous to American national security.
On September 11, 2001, militant Islamic fundamentalist terrorists hijacked commercial airliners and flew them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, killing nearly 3,000 people. Immediately, U.S. intelligence agencies stepped up investigations into Iraq’s possible connection to the terrorist organization al-Qaida, which claimed responsibility for the attacks. In a January 2002 speech, Bush identified Iraq as one of several “rogue nations” that financed or trained terrorists
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It was a noble cause. Bush left Iraq a stable country.
sure brought a lot of “freedom” to Iraq. Thanks George Bush, you fool
It was a noble cause. Bush left Iraq a stable country.
Wrong on both counts
Worked out awesome...
Ugh, “justified” by WMD’s that security sources at the time questioned as operational or even still there at all, later to be replaced by the “justification” of the so-called “Bush Doctrine” a here-today-gone-tomorrow fiction. Bush did it because he wanted to and even his own staff wasn’t sure why. Probably because Saddam reportedly tried to take his dad out when he visited Kuwait.
Actually it was done to please his father. GHWB didn’t like the tile inlay of his face that people walked across and spit on. His boy made it all better.
Yeah, if we left 50K troops there for eternity to get IED'd by Islamic filth.
I said it then, and I will say it now: this was a stupid idea. Not because of the WMD stuff, but because anyone with a sense of history knew it was going to turn into a mess.
Go pound, noob. It was a noble cause, and Obummer FUBAR’d the whole middle east. We won that one, sorry to replace your trump slogans with truth.
This day in history. Wow. I fully supported Bush’s decision to go to war. My reasoning included the coalition of 43 countries, my trust of Robert Royal and Condoleeza Rice, my studies with John K. Muir at Cal, and my trust in the videos of WMD on the Kurds in the 1990’s.
My friends had one objection: there are no WMD!!!
Looking back I feel sad. Sun Tzu said that wars should be quick and not lengthy.
I pray for the deceased American soldiers regularly.
I’m sure you, just like 99% of the FR popularion, were in complete and total support of the invasion of Iraq when it took place. And you’re one of the many freepers, trump supporters, mainly, that now deny it.
trump was even supported the war when it happened. That has been well documented.
I wasn’t a member of FR. And I opposed the invasion from the get go. Saddam was a killer of Shiite terrorists, and the mortal enemy of Iran. Common sense always said it would be foolish to remove him. But Bush was short on common sense.
Buses spectacular failure as president gave us Obama, so we were punished doubly by the idiot W.
Your thoughts Snipe?
precisely. and people never think through WHY obama intentionally unwon the Iraq war — it’s precisely because he had to discredit the bush doctrine, the notion of preemption. if preemption was proven to work, and it was, then their foreign policy was instantly rendered absurd and dysfunctional for all eternity.
they literally couldn’t function in a universe where preemption prevailed. of course, the associated conclusion is that they literally burned those brave men that died winning Iraq for mere political gain. those bastards have a lot to answer for.
fine. then you matter even less than I thought you did. the point remains that the vast majority of the people on FR that criticize the war today were supporters when it happened. that was before donald trump started doing a lot of people’s thinking for them.
That worked out well.
I learned that ya shouldn't engage in a fight that you don't intend to win irrevocably.
Even if the only thing that hinders ya is the fact that ya won't be around long enough to get to "irrevocably".
there were over twenty articles in the congressional authorization of the use of force in Iraq. two mentioned WMD. Two. sadly, many people have drunk the ReBamaLosi / MSM propaganda. pushed especially hard by that hateful little bastard, harry reid.
the entire belief in “no WMD, no justification” proves the rule of “the big lie”; if you repeat a lie loud enough and often enough, the lie becomes the truth.
Maybe, but it seems that everyone, dem and GOPe alike, conveniently forget that the very same George W. Bush made the following statement during the 2000 Presidential Debates: "If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, then we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road, and I'm going to prevent that."
After ousting Saddam, what did we do in Iraq other than "nation building", and how many BILLIONS of dollars did we spend?
I agree. In 2003 and 2004 opponents repeated, “No WMD.” I discovered they really did not care. Losers.
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