“One hit during Bushs term and they we took major action. Tired of the Bush bashing on this issue.”
BS. 9/11 was a very different animal than an embassy in Africa getting bombed. And the major action we took was to assist the northern alliance (islamists) to wipe out the other islamists in Afghanistan.
Bush protected the Saudis from scrutiny, let them scurry away, and attacked everyone except the people who did it.
Then he attacked Iraq that had no connection at all to 9/11. Then his conduct in that war was idiotic. Running unarmed supply trucks down MSRs for years so they could be blasted with IEDs. He did that longer than WWII lasted and couldn’t figure it out.
He did nothing to stop the Iranians who were killing out men as fast as they could.
And his incompetence is still with us today. we were in WWII for 3.5 years. This middle east crap is 15 years now with no end in sight. Obama has made it worse, but Bush is equally cuplable
Nice revisionist history. Clinton didn’t do a damn thing to slow down Al Queda. It’s 100% on his watch. Bush didn’t even have his leadership confirmed until well into 2001, much less. 9/11 is only different because the results were far worse than the same exact building being bombed from underneath 8 years previous. Al Queda grew stronger and stronger between 1993 and 2001 and nothing would have changed that. The effort of assisting the northern alliance was the correct approach. without question. On one hand you are saying we shouldn’t do anything in Iraq. On the other hand you are saying we didn’t do enough in Afghanistan . NO ONE EVER, EVER, EVER said we went in to Iraq because they did 9/11. That’s Moonbat stupidity to repeat that now among the right. After 9/11, the mission was (and should still be) to root out any leaders funding and promoting terror. Saddam was. He was a massive destabilizing force, having refused to abide by his agreed surrender terms and continuing to pay for suicide bombers in Israel. He was not Al Queda, but our efforts were not exclisive to Al Queda. Your attacks on Bush are an attack on our military who drew up plans to best prosecute the war.
I have no answer on Saudi’s role, but that’s not Bush. There is a bigger reason that goes way beyond one person. I have no clue why they are a protected class among those countries.
It is utterly shocking we’re debating this on FR and with 180 degree opposite view as the past 15 years. Embarrassingly shocking.