Mistakes of the Past Are Back

Townhall.com ^ | September 25, 2014 | Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

[skeeter]

There isn’t a single supposition here that I can definitely refute.

[Jim Robinson]

What if there were no Islamic fascists terrorizing the world.

[Blood of Tyrants]

What if most of the “what ifs” are propaganda by the hate
Bush crowd?

[Parley Baer]

What if radical Islam has declared war on America?

[Ingtar]

Nor is there a singe supposition here that can be proved.

[Ingtar]

What if there is no radical Islam? What if the face that appears to be sane is simply deception?

[skeeter]

Well, Iraq was stable under Hussein and it isn't now.

Kick my ass for saying it but I think its fair to ask whether or not invading was a mistake.

[PapaNew]

First: government NEVER publicly admits to ANY mistakes or failures. The failures are always attributed somewhere else, usually the people who have not provided enough money for government to "fix" the problem. The "problem" never gets fixed and the government never has enough money. Government is: you take an entity and you take away reason and accountability.

Second, proof of Bush's equivocation for Iraq was the hastily and deeply flawed, basically ignored and rejected "Bush Doctrine" as the reason for invading Iraq.

Dumb.

[Louis Foxwell]

Precisely. None of these issues have been raised by the likely suspects against their god, Obama. Yet, all of the same conditions apply.
What if ridding the world of Hussein was an act of mercy?

[<1/1,000,000th%]

What if this is just a bad article?

[BenLurkin]

What if Bill Clinton snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by failing to enforce the terms of the cease-fire which concluded the First Gulf War?

[Delta Dawn]

No. The mistake was leaving.

It is the Obama doctrine:

Leave a region of the world so that it can destabilize...

[Ingtar]

The plan to weaken them and seek the removal of Hussein was made on the assumption that we would remain to stabilize things. It did not account for the Americans withdrawing and leaving a vacuum, as well as arming the more radical elements in the Middle East, creating ISIS and other threats.

[Kaslin]

My father would have been a millionaire if if had not been for that little word if

[Kaslin]

Hasn’t it?

[Kaslin]

To many what if questions and no answer

[Chgogal]

Already posted and hotly discussed (at least on my part).
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3207623/posts

[skeeter]

The possibility/likelyhood of feckless US leadership in the future is part of the problem with the original plan to invade, IMO.

[dangerdoc]

Reagan seemed to be able to put the fear into despots without invading their countries. I’m not sure we’ve had a president since that could do the same.

I think that if a number of noted democrats and the media hadn’t sabotaged the war effort and given aid and comfort to the enemy, the war would have had an over all positive effect.