Posted on 04/11/2021 7:38:37 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
We needed 'approval' to take him out so he had WMD. Did he? Hindsight's 20-20. Blame Saudis for producing the hijackers? Fat chance. Iran's been the big problem all along and it was an opportunity to take out their entire infrastructure without too many casualties. Instead Iran gets control of Iraq and we do their dirty work for them. Iraq any better? Both parties took out Saddam and Khadafy and look what it got us. "Experts' are calling the shots and we're paying for it. 300k+ dead Iraqi's, Lybian refugees in Europe and trillions wasted. Go figure.
So, this is the “new” line we will use?
Start the drums beating.
Iraq was W using the U.S. and its military to fight his own private war. Corrupt, really.
I was for Bush until I gradually realized how messed up he is - another RINO socialist.
Ok so it wasn’t Iran behind it. It wasn’t Khadafy or Saddam either. We had to take it to SOMEBODY. We owed Iran a punch in the nose. Since 1979 Reagan took out ONE oil platform. That’s it. They hate us the most and we’ve done nothing to get them to fear us. It works out better that way when there’s billions of dollars for the taking in the process.
Appeasement drums are beating, not war drums. Both are destructive, as Trump recognized.
Taking out Saddam was the best thing we ever could have done for the Iranians.
Because Saddam tried to kill his daddy.
Germany and Japan are now peaceful countries. What happened at Dresden and Hiroshima/Nagasaki just might have a lot to do with this long period of non-aggression as we ended the war with an exclamation point. We can argue if we missed out on a big opportunity post WW2 regarding Russia/China. 911 was 20 years ago-too late for corrections. It’s called striking while the iron is hot as well as being ‘on a roll’.
If Saddam took over Saudi oil fields fracking would have been developed sooner as long as the left didn’t have us investing the trillions in solar & wind.
Neocon warmongering.
We had the chance to take out Saddam in 2001. And it would have been Iraqi troops marching into Baghdad.
And before Saddam invaded Kuwait, the Kuwaitis were “drinking his milkshake.”
There are no saints in that region.
Speak for yourself. When it came to Iraq, my FORESIGHT was 20-20.
I knew that fiasco was a crock of sh!t long before the 2003 invasion.
There ALWAYS war drums beating on FR. ha ha.
I am not advocating appeasement. But if we are going back to the Cold War, we need to use our proxies.
Every Senator and journalist that voted for or called for either of those wars should have faced a trial like Nuremberg.
I can vouch for that, Alberta, you swam against the tide.
‘Neocon warmongering.’
You could be right but by whom?
Yup. So Bush put America, her brave soldiers, and the world in harms way over a freaking family squabble.
I really do not like Bush.
Start with W himself.
And now basically we are going to war in Ukraine for the same reason, a family squabble.
‘Alberta, you swam against the tide.’
This would make Barbara Lee our Rosa Parks. Same for Jane Fonda.
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