Posted on 11/18/2014 11:39:20 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Or maybe because President Bush doesn’t need a sycophantic crowd constantly praising him for even the smallest action.
He did what he felt he needed to do, and not for some phantom “legacy”.
His legacy is meeting returning troops at airports and hosting wounded warrior bicycle rides.
Although I do wish he would slam this president for his actions a little more.
Give that man a ceegar; I think we should all remember the long lines of trucks headed for Syria after the ground war started.
bfl
My disagreement with the invasion was that we would get bogged down in the region and destabilize it. Saddam was a bad guy, there is no doubt about that. But he was in control. This stuff was going nowhere unless there was a power vacuum in the region.
There was no impending threat from them. The entire invasion was to put off Iran—they are the real problem. And now, Obama will let them get the bomb.
I am glad they found the WMD. But I am not sure it was worth the sh”t storm that was taken over Iraq and the entire area. Had we not invaded, my guess is that Egypt and Syria would have remained at the status quo.
But this is almost irrelevant. We are where we are. And it is more dangerous than ever. And Obama only makes it more dangerous.
No, your words not mine.
I consider myself a conservative Republican.
Lord knows I have been active in conservative causes for decades now.
Worked on RR’s first presidential campaign in 1976 when he ran against Ford.
No, that doesn’t make any sense either.
Presidents are not dictators. They are expected to inform American citizens - it is our country, not just his.
His false modesty, that he and his father are so proud of, is just elitism.
I was assigned to CENTCOM Forward in Qatar and later in Kuwait and Iraq. I signed a non-disclosure agreement as I am certain all officers in theater did. I had to assume that the information the US Govt wanted released was their business, at their level. So I pretty much expect other officers to do the same.
Of course Saddam had WMD- lots of open source info as depicted in the links, Canada processed the yellow cake a few years ago, no one argued that it came from IRQ.
I am longer in the Army ( retired, so I guess still on retainer pay) but I do honor my promises, even if the govt may/may not.
I was assigned to CENTCOM Forward in Qatar and later in Kuwait and Iraq during OIF ‘03-4 etc. I signed a non-disclosure agreement as I am certain all officers in theater did. I had to assume that the information the US Govt wanted released was their business, at their level. So I pretty much expect other officers to do the same.
Of course Saddam had WMD- lots of open source info as depicted in the links, Canada processed the yellow cake a few years ago, no one argued that it came from IRQ.
I am longer in the Army ( retired, so I guess still on retainer pay) but I do honor my promises, even if the govt may/may not.
That explanation seems to be logically sound. And note how this author did not get fooled by the ISIS was kicked out of All Qeada because they were too violent claptrap. ISIS is Al Qeada. And that Obama lie has been exposed because now ISIS and Al Qeada have magically joined forces. Nothing but newspeak comes out of DC.
Karl Rove told him there was nothing to gain by "relitigating" what he considered a dead issue.
And like an idiot Bush believed him. It's in Rove's book.
The fact is, there were stories about these materials being found at the time they were found. Some of those stories were posted here. Not much of a strategic secret. The rest of the world didn't know because the mass media simply censored the information.
But this guy has a book of his own to sell, so he has his own story.
I read a lot about Al Tuwatha at the time, it seemed like it qualified as WMD to me. The place was plundered by the surrounding natives and god knows who else before troops secured the area. Troops found people in the surrounding area with a lot of “hot” items, containers and barrels and the like using them for every day things like hauling water. The speculation was a bit of nuclear material was spirited away also. Then suddenly the reports ended just about the time the “no WMD” meme started to get traction.
Ahem...GW has not slammed this Puppet AT ALL.
I'm just not getting into it...
I’m not going to apologize for my objection here. The last thing I want to do is debate this; I don’t have the time or energy right now.
The fact is that I cannot condone a manic defense (old style respect) of someone so many hold up to be Conservative (he’s not) who’s content to sit on the sidelines and watch the country devolve into a Constitutional crisis of his successor’s own making (including his own contributions as well).
Conservatives are lacking leadership in this country and his inaction/silence condones his successor’s actions. I’ve quoted his own words at FR prior that state as much (he just doesn’t ‘believe in it’).
Condoning the Progressive actions of this Puppet by silence and inaction are itself Progressive. Period. An argument to the contrary is emotional, not logical.
On that basis, it automatically disqualifies any future Bush from that office (the article, IMHO, is written to lay the framework for Jeb running in 2016).
I’m also not getting into WMDs...I’m content with letting historians of another generation work that out.
The “world” DID know about the WMDs. Several different intelligence agencies had the same info. The lying media constructed the “no WMD” stories.
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