Misunderestimated again!
big time
BUMP!
Oh really?
"And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation in every region now has a decision to make: Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime."
Iran is shaking in their boots that they so "Misunderestimated" the above statement. We've really starved them and treated them as hostile.
Them and Syria made their decision: They are with the terrorist...and we've done nothing to them.
Now...let the excuses flow (and I know they will...but it doesn't erase the speech and promises).
You wish, oldfriend. You wish.
Pere Bush's tears the other day were not about Jeb's stiff upper lip after an electoral defeat, as he claimed. Those gushing tears and that heartwrenching anguish, a public breakdown certainly unprecedented in American history for a former president, were for Dubya, with Jeb the convenient cover.
The Bush family went after Saddam out of personal animus. They were tired of explaining why Poppa didn't carry on to Baghdad after the Gulf War, and they all hated Saddam intensely for the assassination attempt on 41. If any other individual except George W. Bush has been in the Oval Office in 2003, the unnecessary and ill-advised invasion of Iraq never -- EVER -- would have taken place. All that we see happening now was easily predictable back then. Indeed, I predicted it, as did Dick Cheney* in 1991.
We don't need to be in Iraq to enhance the security of the American people. It was a disastrous decision to invade, made by an inarticulate, ill-read man who knows nothing of the lessons of history.
All of this is now evident to the family, hence Poppa's public tears.
*Once you get to Baghdad, it’s not clear what you do with it. It’s not clear what kind of government you put in place of the one that’s currently there now. Is it going to be a Shia regime, a Sunni regime, a Kurdish regime? Or one that tilts toward the Baathists, or one that tilts toward Islamic fundamentalists? How much credibility is that going to have if it’s set up by the American military there? How long does the United States military have to stay there to protect the people that sign on for that government, and what happens once we leave?