Posted on 08/26/2021 7:03:21 PM PDT by RandFan
@ColumbiaBugle
President Donald Trump On Hannity Tonight: "I wanted to get out. I wish we never went in. The biggest mistake we made in the history of our country was going into the Middle East."
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For us non-twitter fans, it’s funny I can only view it on twitter. I guess, no thank you.
For us non-twitter fans, it’s funny I can only view it on twitter. I guess, no thank you.
No.
I was here in 2008 when Ron Paul made his historic run for POTUS.
Paul was banned from RedState, HotAir, and even the FR mods & FReepers attacked him.
Turns out he was right about all of this.
Look, we all supported going into Afghanistan immediately after 09/11. Even though now we have learned it's a complete and utter lie. I just want conservatives to take the L and realize that people like Trump and Paul were right all along.
There’s nothing really there just that statement is the tweet.
I don’t care about the comments. Don’t even read them
The USA isn’t supposed to be a “democratic country”; we are supposed to be a republic.
The Democrats, from Wilson on down, call socialism and democracy “one and the same”.
Pat Buchanan was right on a lot of things as well.
Sounds good. I was with Pat Buchanan on Gulf War I. I was mostly interested in a healthy decompression of the Soviet Union. When needed, Israel does a pretty good job of looking after her own interests without our help (outside of using our veto when necessary at the UN). The bombing of the Iraqi nuke facility comes to mind.
Yes, we were all emotional after 9/11, and wanted to take it out on somebody.
Bush had no interest in getting Bin Laden, he wanted to stay in Afghanistan and nation build, and getting Bin Laden wouldn’t have helped.
The US position in the ME up to Bush 1 and the Gulf War was the US would maintain an “over the horizon” position on the ME. Our plan was to go in if we had to to stop the Soviets, or anyone else, grabbing the ME oil. We were not, in any situation, to maintain a presence on the ground in the ME outside of NATO ally Turkey
Bush 1, mainly because Colin Powell threw a fit, stopped Desert Storm too early. We should of taken out Saddam, Declared victory, and turned rebuilding Iraq over to the UN and the Arab League. We should never of been stationing troops on the ground in the ME. That was a major blunder.
The failure of rational US policy in Gulf War 1 lead to everything that has happen since. Because we, for the 1st time, maintained forces in the ME to enforce the No Fly Zone, everything we done since in the ME had to be done.
Trump is mostly right, going into the ME, and staying there, was a mistake. We fought a 30 years war that is now ending badly, in Kabul because of that error.
Exactly correct. So we should also leave Iraq & Syria. We are not even remotely legally in the latter.
I say, we focus on our own Hemisphere, we tell China and Russia, as long as you stay out of our Hemisphere, we won’t interfere in your domain.
The Western Hemisphere has everything we need to be self-sufficient.
After hundreds of US Marines were killed in their sleep.
Many have in messages to me. Many Freepers have posted about this and their disgust.
In fact, barely a day goes by when you don’t see a post like: “I can’t believe I voted for him”
My response is: Lets ensure the fake conservatives never get power again. We don’t need to worry about that for a while.
It pure idiocy to argue that the West should of handed control of 2/3rds the world oil to Sandam Hussein.
Are the Saudis any better? Besides if we drill here, we have all the oil we need and we can tell the ME to FOAD.
You mean the same Saddam that was the biggest enemy of Iran?
Yes it’s in Asia, I just figured Trump misspoke, or maybe meant to include Afghanistan in the mix with the other Islamic countries.
China is all over South America
No this is you mindlessly clinging to an ignorance based dogma despite whole books worth of facts being posted to you over the years.
It pure idiocy to argue, as you and your god Ron Paul do, that the West should of turned control of 2/3rds the world’s oil over to Saddam
But since you resolutely refused to learn since you 1st logged in here, it is pretty obvious you never will
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