I agree with those points but that does not make the original decision a good one. I can’t get to my computer right now so I can’t use Dragon which mercifully spares you a lengthly reply which is needed here.
Bottom line: we went to war against the wrong country for the right reasons.
WooHoo!!!! Everybody pile on Nathan while we can!
Do you give any credence to the "flank the crazy Muslims" theory?
Buzz Paterson doesn’t agree. Many others don’t agree. Iraq was the primary sponsor of terror, giving $10,000 to every family that produced a jihadi. He was an absolute tyrant in his own country, per Amir Taheri and others, getting rid of subordinates in a paranoid frenzy the way Stalin did. Anyone who doubts the existence of the WMD need only ask the Persians and the Kurds, or read the news reports of ISIS finding and using them, or stop in a bookstore and ask for Christopher Hitchens’s book and turn to the photo section. Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait and audacious approach to the Saudi border showed that his ambitions in the Middle East were megalomanical and dangerous. We brought democracy and peace to Iraq and Obama trashed it for his own electoral ambitions.
Everyone now conveniently has amnesia on this issue. Monday-morning quarterbacking, but even worse than that because the decision WAS correct at the time. Obama’s destruction of every act of valor and drop of blood shed by our troops does not make the original decision wrong. An isolationist recently informed me that Saddam was justified in invading Kuwait because Kuwait was drilling diagonally to obtain oil that was in Iraqi territory. I ask you.