Posted on 02/20/2016 4:54:05 AM PST by VitacoreVision
Although Clinton screwed it up (refusing C130 gunships, etc.), it is my understanding that GHW Bush sent our troops to Somalia for some goofball mission about feeding the locals - well, watching the well fed locals march through the streets gleefully carrying the body parts of American pilots they slaughtered made me feel just great that we fed the pigs. And I wondered why Jeb and Neil ad GW weren’t there on the front line.
Saddam was a big enemy of Iran, Now Iraq is z client state and ally of Iran. We don’t need “strategery” like this again and we actually paid 2 trillions dollars and suffered tens of thousands of casualties to produce this result. Where was the benefit to the American people?
For that region, I always go to the one core word: OIL.
Relatively few Republican Guard troops were killed getting out of Kuawait. Most made it back to Iraq. I’m fairly sure it was mostly regular army caught on highway 80.
(Sonny getting back at saddam for bush sr)
That’s exactly why the “war” happened. GWB was a fool for taking his eye off of Afghanistan. He should have focused on the Bin Laden hunt there and then deal with Saudi Arabia for whatever part they played.
It SHOULD BE noted that one of towers had been attacked before when a van was driven into a parking area and exploded.
Dubya’, evidently, didn’t think that it could possibly happen again.
Hold on. wasn’t bin Ladin our Mujadeen boy in Afganistan fighting Soviets? we trained and supplied them for a decade didn’t we?
It gets so confusing when we supported Mujadeen and fought Al Queda. ISIS is good in Syria, but bad in Iraq. It appears we support and then fight anyone with the ultimate goal of destabilization?
I want the UN out of the US. We can’t keep feeding a unless beast that bites us at every turn.
Should be USELESS beast.
“During the recent Republican candidates’ debate in Greenville, South Carolina, Trump, in addition to calling the invasion of Iraq “a big fat mistake,” responded to Jeb Bush’s defense of his brother’s record by reminding listeners that the 9/11 attacks had occurred while George W. was president.”
That’s not what he said, this is a lie because it doesn’t include what he actually said.
He said the George W Bush Lied, LIED.
This rewriting of history sickens me, notice the author omitted any of the really inflammatory Trump statements to soft peddle the crap sandwich.
I think Trump is being gentle in his treatment of our past ME policy.
One day we will be eating our shitsammy and people like you will have no idea why.
I will know, and it isn’t going to be that long now
People supporting Trump are making it happen.
The whole thing seems so garbled to me. I can not remember if Powell said emphatically that Saddam had WMD. Then there is a question of what that term really means. We know he had Sarin gas and he used it. There is also the likelihood that some of it was hauled away to Syria.
Trump nor this author have softpeddled nothing. Our present financial disasters, and out of control government on its needs to satisfy the voracious appetitites of crony capitalism are due to the decision to invade Iraq.
The federal budget was more or less balanced in the last years of Cliton - and wit Iraq it exploded out of control. We build DHS and we build a DC infrastructure of crony capitalist beltway bandits to support THE GREAT RIPOFF of the American taxpayer. Obama may have continued the tradition and converted it to social spending, but GWB and his neocons started it.
This was a strategic disaster of the same order of the Athenian expedition to Syracuse which lead to the fall of Athens under the boot of Sparta.
Now that's a deal I'd like to see Trump make. Who knows the value of NY real estate better?
Cake walk? Yeah, maybe Saddam was easy to bring down, but the war that followed — almost 5000 American young people dead, many many times more than that grievously maimed and mangled — and in the end not a sign of the lasting secure peace we hoped to put in place — this was a cake walk?
Donald Trump is a rabble rouser who says anything to get what he wants. He wants to be in the news and he wants Jeb Bush out of the race so blaming George Bush for 9/11 is what he does to needle Jeb Bush and get Trump in the news.
Bill Clinton refused to do his job, covered up the first WTC attack and failed to get Bin Laden several times when literally offered to him. He also deliberately blocked law enforcement and intelligence agencies from sharing their information and that reason was because he was selling our secrets to anyone who waved a $20 bill his way.
Donald Trump blaming George Bush is not just cheap shot but undermines the United States. I am afraid he will blame anyone for his failures in the future but himself.
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