Absolutely true. The Christians there would also still be alive and we wouldn’t have the migration invasion.
George W. was delusional to think that with Saddam gone the Iraqis would embrace freedom. Their Muslim ideology is anti-democratic. The choice is secular dictator or religious dictator. Take your pick.
I’d prefer the secular dictators.
In 2003, there was HUGE support for Bush and Operation Iraqi Freedom here at FR.
In fact, there was HUGE support here at FR for THE SURGE as well.
My, how things have changed after a decade...
It’s not as simple as that....though some of what you said is valid. Like most issues in the Middle East, there is no good answer. These dictators were friends of terrorists and enablers too.
The only solid Middle East policy is to have our own oil and to protect Israel. Everything else is a mixed bag......there are often NO GOOD GUYS in any Middle Eastern spat.
Both met a painful demise.
Actually they did - but the United States betrayed them, as we did Vietnam, by electing treasonous scum.
Now watching FR cheering on the KGB is sickening- the stupid has been growing stronger here over the years.
Absolutely Right. And I was W’s biggest cheer leader. If anything, I thought he and senior were to soft. Christians were unmolested under Saddham. Why is it that we know that the federal government’s meddling at home is disaster but somehow can work overseas?
“George W. was delusional to think that with Saddam gone the Iraqis would embrace freedom.”
I have to admit I shared the delusion for a few weeks. But it was as much swamp gas as any of his other aspirational illuminati horse dung. He needs to get back the easel where he is happier and was coming along quite nicely.
Perhaps had the Pentagon Historians been consulted and that information used wisely, these (tribes) would have been recognized and put to better/stronger use for that nation. Making a 'reality show' out of Iraq, the MSM and the Bush administration cheapened what should have been a peaceful ending for Iraq, perhaps even her neighbors and the USA.
Absolutely correct.
