[Alberta's Child]

I consider the Iraq war to be an abysmal failure for one very important reason:

If the government of Iran controlled the U.S. military and was responsible for running a military campaign in the Middle East that would serve their interests, they probably would have done exactly what we've done over the last ten years.

Just think about that one for a moment.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Final score

George W Bush 4459 dead Americans, Pat Buchanan 0

American blood is too precious to be sacrificed in far away regional conflicts. Not only that, the Iraq War diverted effort at the time from the fight against our real enemy in Afghanistan.

[Jim Noble]

Iraq was a catastrophe from almost every imaginable angle.

And it was entirely W’s fault, for which WE have had to pay a horrible price.

[dragnet2]

Buchanan as usual, is absolutely correct..

Going into Iraq was an utter disaster, looting the U.S. treasure, killing and maiming thousands of Americans with Bush's compassionate wars...

The tax payers lost big, we won zip...

[Romulus]

I am so sick of these neocon shills serving foreign powers.

[SeminoleCounty]

History as already absolved Buchanan and other anti-IRQ critics.... we have very little to show for our near 10 yrs in Iraq.

Worse of all...we gave Barack Obama an excuse to continue Us involvement in the Mid East....supporting pro-terrorist regimes

GW Bush lacked the comittment to win wars in the Middle East. His “Islam is a Religion of Peace” mutterings gave comfort to the enemy. Can you imagine the US leaders muttering “The Nazis are a party of peace” during WW II

[pgkdan]

Iraq was an absolute catastrophe. And I say that as someone who completely supported W’s effort. I was wrong. The “liberation” of Iraq was not worth one precious drop of American blood. All we accomplished was setting up a Shiite ally for Iran and the near extinction f one if the world’s oldest Christian Churches. Bravo.

[Revolting cat!]

Iraq was as much a success as recent adventures in Libya and Egypt - replacing more or less friendly if thuggish dictators with committees of thugs. That’s Democracy in the Middle East for ya!

[dennisw]

We went into Iraq on an honest basis. I don’t believe that George Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction that Saddam had. I am amazed that Iraq has turned out half decent and mostly stable, so let us admit some success. But it was not worth all the dead and injured Americans and the trillions spent. Muslims are too crazy to spend a trillion or two on nation building efforts for them.

If we had to go in -— We should have killed Saddam, destroyed his army and killed his Baathist party leaders and left. But none of this nation building bullshit it does not work with crazed Muslims

[fortheDeclaration]

We were right to end Hussein's rule, we should have done it in the first war, but Bush Sr. lost his nerve.

What we did wrong was nation build.

[x]

With the complicity of the liberal media, the anti-Bushies were allowed to paraphrase this as “no weapons of mass destruction,” which is an utter lie. By 2006, no fewer than 500 sarin and mustard gas munitions had been found in Iraq. Also found were empty binary warheads specifically designed to deliver sarin gas, and missiles equipped to deliver those warheads.

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Beginning in 2003, the ISG had uncovered remnants of Iraq's 1980s-era WMD programs. On June 21, 2006 Rick Santorum claimed that "we have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, chemical weapons", citing a declassified June 6 letter to Pete Hoekstra saying that since the 2003 invasion, a total of "approximately 500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent" had been found scattered throughout the country.

The Washington Post reported that "the U.S. military announced in 2004 in Iraq that several crates of the old shells had been uncovered and that they contained a blister agent that was no longer active." It said the shells "had been buried near the Iranian border, and then long forgotten, by Iraqi troops during their eight-year war with Iran, which ended in 1988." Wikipedia