I don't think we took out Saddam, thinking he was responsible for 9-11.
Colin Powell stopped US from finishing Saddam off after he invaded Kuwait.
Trump saying Bush is responsible for destabilizing the M.E. is just inaccurate.
Remember all the smiles and purple fingers in Iraq?
The M.E. became wholly unstable after Barack withdraw from Iraq, allowing Iran & ISIS to fill the void.
Barack & Hillary further destabilized the M.E. by overthrowing our ally in Eqypt and overthrowing the Libya dictator that had giving up is WMDs, and nuclear weapons program.
We disagree on that one. Saddam at the end of the day was a huge part of stability in that region. Iran gained influence after the Iraq disaster. Nor were aged and degraded leftover weapons from the eighties a threat to US Safety, nor was the sacrifice in blood and treasure justified for overthrowing Saddam.
Cheney agreed on that idea and his statements after GWI make it clear:
'I think that the proposition of going to Baghdad is also fallacious. I think if we we're going to remove Saddam Hussein we would have had to go all the way to Baghdad, we would have to commit a lot of force because I do not believe he would wait in the Presidential Palace for us to arrive. I think we'd have had to hunt him down. And once we'd done that and we'd gotten rid of Saddam Hussein and his government, then we'd have had to put another government in its place. What kind of government? Should it be a Sunni government or Shi'i government or a Kurdish government or Ba'athist regime? Or maybe we want to bring in some of the Islamic fundamentalists? How long would we have had to stay in Baghdad to keep that government in place? What would happen to the government once U.S. forces withdrew? How many casualties should the United States accept in that effort to try to create clarity and stability in a situation that is inherently unstable? I think it is vitally important for a President to know when to use military force. I think it is also very important for him to know when not to commit U.S. military force. And it's my view that the President got it right both times, that it would have been a mistake for us to get bogged down in the quagmire inside Iraq.
At the Washington Institute's Soref Symposium, April 29, 1991'