Got to love the comment at the site. Bush’s fault.
‘We simply are going broke trying to put out the fire Bush started and not getting anywhere.’
You hear a lot of this from some people in the armed forces. It seems that no one ever points out to them that the US could not keep 1/4 of its tac air tied up enforcing the UN embargo of Iraq with the Global War on Terror on and that a first year ROTC student could point out the error of leaving a powerful foe placed on ones flank in SW Asia. The withdrawal of most US air assets would have led to the collapse of the embargo of Iraq in a year or so and Saddam could have strutted around proclaiming , again, ‘Brave Iraqis you have won (because my regime outlasted them).’ All of this is so elemental, but none of the Bush people will ever just say it.