It’s a great piece of work and it’s disgusting that Bush leaves the heavy lifting to Cheney. Cheney would have done it during their terms but Bush clearly collared him. Bush’s silence is way past dissapointing.
Two things:
My son’s squad (part of the 299th Army Reserve MBR Engineers) on the east bank of the Euphrates River at Hindaya (Objective Peach), found Chemical Warfare green suits in abandoned Iraqi military depots/caches. (April 2003).
Other units found chemical shells, chemical components, and a lot of Cyanide powder (enought to kill tens of thousands of people) scattered throughout Iraq. Some even found MIGS buried under a decoy layer of destroyed aircraft.
Secondly, an argument that most, even on our side, forget, is that Saddam was part of a tripartite (or nuclear tripod) consisting of Iran, Iraq and Syria that, in the future (which would be NOW), posed a “clear and present danger” to Israel, Jordan Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Lebanon, and other regional countries, as well as to the US.
Iran is working on a nuclear weapons program. Israel destroyed Iraq’s Osirik reactor in the early 1980’s, an weapons reactor that most didn’t know existed. Then Israel destroyed the newer Syrian nuclear facilities a couple years ago in Syria (again, the US didn’t know that they existed).
This was the “NUCLEAR TRIUMVIRATE” who could have dominated or destroyed the Middle East, causing millions of deaths and wrecking countries.
Israel did some of the necessary preemptive work in taking down the legs of this “NUCLEAR TRIPOD” and the US/Allies took down the Iraqi leg-in-formation.
Someday we will learn what those truck convoys took from Iraq to Syria at the beginning of hostilities or just before it started.
Anyone want to take a bet as to what was in those trucks? It wasn’t potato chips.
You don’t pull out the big guns until there is real peril.
Cheney is now vocal. Saw Andy Card the other day.
Bush will be vocal when it’s necessary.
I believe Bush is allowing Obama to fall flat on his face on his own. If he spoke up the left would be all over him blaming the GOP failure on his intervention. Maybe he is letting the GOP fail on their own as well. He is not like his father and definitely not like Jeb.
At first I was disappointed until I realized he wasn’t giving anyone an excuse to blame him....let them stand on their own merit. I noticed he did not jump on the Jeb Bush for President bandwagon either.