I haven’t seen the movie, but I generally like Eastwood’s take on certain things. It looks from the previews like a movie about heroic acts. But the Iraq War is a tough setting for unequivocal “right and wrong”.
The Iraq War was flawed from the beginning and ended with the flawed and soon-forgotten explanation called “The Bush Doctrine” that tries, but fails, to justify an unprovoked invasion of another country “to make them be democratic too.” Invading other countries to make them be like us is not America’s purpose in this world, and most people know that.
IMO, the Iraq War was Bush taking his eye off the ball of getting Usama bin Laden and his crew on the Afghanistan border.
Actually the Bush Doctrine justifies invasion of foreign countries in order to "force them to eat their peas."
Actually, I totally made that up, that's not what it was at all. And neither was what you said.
“The Iraq War was flawed from the beginning and ended with the flawed and soon-forgotten explanation called “The Bush Doctrine” that tries, but fails, to justify an unprovoked invasion of another country “to make them be democratic too.” Invading other countries to make them be like us is not America’s purpose in this world....”
I’m not gonna go into the myriad reasons that we invaded Iraq. I will say that with Saddam deposed, what kind of government would you prefer to see in Iraq. Monarchy? Communist? Fascist? What?
The move on Iraq was a response to international pressure to relieve sanctions on Saddam. Look up Oil for Food. Waited for UN approval. France screwed us when we finally attacked.
What other hope is there than democracy to organize states? Are we going to designate dictators?