Posted on 02/22/2016 8:13:01 PM PST by Citizen Zed
All we need to know is that Bush and his top people, starting with Vice President Dick Cheney, were too busy in their first eight months in office to bother about al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. Too busy doing what? Among other things, they were too busy looking for an excuse to overthrow Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
Bush's father, George H. W. Bush, had left Saddam in power after sending the U.S. military to reverse Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1991. But the elder Bush and successor Bill Clinton enforced killer economic sanctions, on the pretext of finding weapons of mass destruction but actually in hopes of driving Saddam from power. Saddam wouldn't cooperate in his own regime change, however, so Bush Jr., Cheney, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, and their neoconservative brain trust were determined to complete the mission.
Because of this obsession, warnings from the CIA and counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke about al-Qaeda, which had previously attacked U.S. government assets and the World Trade Center in the 1990s, fell on deaf ears, despite growing signs that Bin Laden was determined to strike the U.S. Even the prospect of aircraft hijackings was raised.
Clarke wrote in his book, Against All Enemies, that when he finally managed to get a cabinet-level meeting on al-Qaeda, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz objected that "I just don't understand why we are beginning by talking about this one man, bin Laden." Clarke responded, "We are talking about a network of terrorist organizations called al-Qaeda, that happens to be led by bin Laden, and we are talking about that network because it and it alone poses an immediate and serious threat to the United States."
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Thank you. You had some great links.
I agree that occupation by the United States is, from my POV, superior to being governed by Islamists, Baathists or warlords. It's also clear that the only way to maintain democracy (of a sort) in the middle east is long term occupation.
So, how many countries should we occupy? For how many centuries? McCain thought one hundred years would do it for Iraq. When does your generosity with American blood and money run out?
I don't think bringing democracy to these godforsaken wastelands is worth a single American life. If they want freedom let them fight for it themselves as our forefathers did.
Then maybe they'll appreciate it.
>>So, how many countries should we occupy?
Well, I’d suggest trying to occupy ours again.
That whole “lead by example” thing was working pretty well back circa 1969 IIRC... even in the wreckage left in the wake of the failed [but enormously profitable] revolution of ‘68.
What would Ike do?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg-jvHynP9Y
Well done.
The answer is VERY simple Trump is going to use this vote to go into Iraq against Hillary, the lie about WMD’S will be used against Hillary!!! It was a HUGE gamble in SC however the gamble worked for him JEB! is gone and he can openly use this against Hillary!!!
What side are you talking about?
Thank you.
Trump’s connecting himself to the vile Code Pinko Hate America lies was a very STUPID move
Just the beginning Donald, and he is to be commended for giving the DEMOCRATS/HILLARY something to debate in the general, other than the IRS, VA, BENGHAZI, GITMO, OBAMACARE, MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, ISIS, ECONOMY. You know, all those issues that were so important before Trump’s big, beautiful, enormous, wall.
The side that thinks defending either Bush's decision to invade Iraq accomplishes anything at this late date.
About the only good thing I can say about our Iraq adventures is that they did help discredit the amnesty loving New World Order globalists of the Bush family once and for all.
I predict Trump will win Nevada tonight. What do you think?
In other news Jeb!'s campaign is still desperately clinging to death.
And whatever happened to Lindsey Graham?
Trump brought it up.
Yes, he did. Why do you think he would do something like that? Do you think Trump is a loose cannon, just firing off wild statements at random?
Or is there method to his message?
Wasted time on a very old issue when there are years of her debacles as SS that are more pertinent to todays electorate. The list to pummel her is. Long.
You don’t know anything about Israel. You all full of it. Take your seat and shut up!
I probably know more than you ever did.
Everyone and every group does! You come across as being very anti-semitic and repulsive to me. So, like I said you should shut that hole in your face and don't bother addressing me again. Keep away from!
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