[NorseViking]

Iran. That is an easy question.

[Redwood71]

I hope his books are placed in the science fiction department. His theology is so full of personal fed manure it could never act as fact.

I don’t know where he was during freeing of Kuwait or the direct attack on Iraq, but he didn’t say five things that were factual or could have been.

rwood

[PGR88]

There was never a question about the necessity to topple Saddam Hussein, who was responsible for the murder of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi-Sunni’s, Shiites, and Kurds, as well as thousands of Kuwaitis.

This is a nonsense, hypocritical premise. Saddam was, if not our friend, at least considered acceptable, when he was bleeding Iran’s army in the early 1980s.

Moreover, while we can never know counterfactual history, The ensuing civil wars, rise of ISIS, genocide of Christians and massive flow of migrants out of Iraq and Syria has caused far more death and chaos than Saddam every committed.

[nonliberal]

ISIS, John McCain and the military industrial complex. May they all rot in hell.

[foreverfree]

bump

[AndyJackson]

First, let me say that this is a badly written article. When you ask enticing question, answer it in the first sentence of your article, and then make me want to read more. I don't want a whodunit for my news or political commentary.

Second, yes, the whole policy was a disaster and deBa'athification, not having an actual plan for Civil Restoration after taking down Sadam shows how short-sighted GWB was. That the follow on policies were largely executed by Cheney is no excuse. They didn't have a plan.

We might not like Sadam, but he let us know well ahead of time that he was keeping the lid tight on Pandora's box. We took him out and opened the box. We already knew some of what was in there.

[Bonemaker]

Don’t forget dear old uncle Jimmy Carter who subverted the Shah of Iran which led to his downfall and subsequent takeover of Iran by the moslem maniacs.

[Bonemaker]

Don’t forget dear old uncle Jimmy Carter who subverted the Shah of Iran which led to his downfall and subsequent takeover of Iran by the moslem maniacs.

[Bishop_Malachi]

The clearest lessons from the Gulf Wars are that eliminating Saddam Hussein and his closest clique didn’t necessitate destroying the established order in Iraq. Additionally, Iran, not Iraq, should have been targeted by the U.S. for regime change.

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It sounds like one Neo-Con wet dream being exchanged for another.

[Newbomb Turk]

Blackwater, Kellog Brown and Root, the general who holds the patient on blast resistant HUMVEE glass, and I could go on forever.