Twenty Years After the U.S. Invasion of Iraq: Was It the Right Decision?

Townhall ^ | 03/22/2023 | Byron York

[lepton]

W enabled Obama to be elected because W was too consumed with the war to pay attention to the economy.

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He wasn’t ignoring the economy. He was blocked by Congress, embodied by a guy named Franks, and a guy named Dodd, who with the support of their party - who were looting Fannie May - actively blocked any attempt to get the major issues under control. The U.S. even elected a guy who specialized in coercing that looting at the local level.

What do you think Obama was doing as a ‘community activist’? Coercing banks into making bad loans to allied minorities.

Well, OK. There was also the ACORN grift he was helping with.

[Ultra Sonic 007]

The reality is, the US and Iraqi people won. Iraq is its own country, Saddam is dead, the Baathist's are gone, Al Queda and ISIS exist as shadows of what they were, Iran is largely in check. The Middle East is not Europe or Asia. Iraq's cultural heritage goes back 10,000 years and is Islamic, not European and Christian.

Dude.

You do realize that Christianity predates Islam by several centuries, right?

[Widget Jr]

Of course. I was talking about differences in cultures and expectations.