*I think the Iraq war was a good decision.
I think Saddam obviously had wmd.
I think the pullout of troops obviously led to the creation and growth of ISIS.
The anti-American war movement is a serious ongoing threat to our security.*
I tend to agree with you. It put us right in the middle of the hornets nest to really shake them out, but the ROE hurt us, the nation building, etc., really hurt us and then zero pulling out and creating a vacuum was the icing on the cake.
Saddam’s military was smaller than Iran. Yet he held off Iran in a 10 year war. Saddam never threatened or had the means to attack United States with his “wmd’s”. There was ZERO imminent and present danger to our homeland. The WMD mirage was Saddam’s ruse to scare Iran from attacking the weaker Iraq.
Results of Bush’s Iraq war:
1. National debt jacked up by $2,000,000,000,000. It was a war Bush-43 started on a credit card. We will pay interest on that debt for ever. Because we have no budget surpluses to pay any part of the principle.
Tens of thousand of brave young American soldiers injured or killed.
2. Iraq is now splintered.
3. Iran controls most of Iraq. The radical Islamist Mullah’s are much stronger with control over Iraq’s oil.
4. Rest of Iraq under control of ISIS, who now control lot of Iraqi oil.
5. Libya is now under control of radical Islamists.
6. Yemen is now under control of radical Islamists.
7. Egypt fell under control of radical Islamists. We got very lucky that the military succeeded in ousting Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
8. Syria is now a total kerfuffle.
9. The 911 terrorists were Saudi’s, not Iraqi’s.
None of the above 9 disasters could happen if we left the Muslim dictators alone. They were all successfully controlling the radical Islamists.
Bush-43’s Iraq war will go down in history books as the worst foreign policy blunder since Vietnam war.
Trump is absolutely right, we elect very stupid leaders. Bush-43 & Barack Hussein are 2 prime examples.
I agree but also blame Bush for not creating a forward operating base that would have stabilized Iraq and given
the US a foothold in the ME.