Revisionist crap.
Beside the point anyhow but panders to liberaltarians.
We were all lied to about WMDs.
I was also on the wrong side of Iraq back then. Although I was one of the first people to question what the goal was as soon as Bush said “we are not in the business of nation building” during his big speech (was it a state of the union?) during the buildup.
He was 19 years-old in 2003
He WENT to IRAQ for gosh sakes!! What was he supposed to do......SPIT in the CiC face?
The flipping on support of Iraq is one thing, I was wrong also. What really bothered me was Vance saying that we were all wrong about Obama, that he isn’t a Muslim and that his credentials were impeccable. I still very much believe that Obama is a fraud. I don’t know if I can even finish the book. The IVY league pride is just too much for me. I feel like he is looking down his nose at non-Ivy league grads. I still support him for VP, just not as strongly.
Thousands of good, stock American men died for nothing.
I think I am the only person in America who still believes the Iraq war of 2003 was absolutely correct.
It makes me sad when Republicans capitulate their history and accept radical left wing talking points from 20 years ago.
This is not winning and the entire NEO CON scam running here at FR is pure left wing fantasy.
Republicans will not be true winners until they can actually control and validate their own history. The dismal spiral of repudiation that comes for every prior iteration of Republican president is proof that the radical Left owns our public sphere.
Part of the simple logic is asking whether Gore or Kerry would have been a better president in 2000 or 2004. If the answer is not then we need to stop pretending that every prior Republican president is a dolt.
For all the NEO CON reactionaries, ask yourself this: How brilliant was it for Trump to annihilate the Iranian general Soleiman on the tarmac at Bagdad?
Correct answer: Massively brilliant.
Even though it is arguably an act of war and ‘risks dragging us into another war’ it was and continues to be the right thing to do. In many respects, it is Trump’s aggressive militarism that keeps America safe. He ordered the killing of hundreds of Russian soldiers. That undoubtedly something that gives him leverage to say the Russia Ukraine conflict will end before he becomes President.
I am glad we fought and won the Iraq war of 2003 even if Vance is not. How dumb is it to predicate your renewal in American idealism upon. your military service in Iraq while demeaning the purpose of that service? We can make better arguments than Vance is offering.
I was on the wrong side too. Cheerleading for Bush-Cheney’s foreign wars. Then I realized Iraq never attacked us…nor Afghanistan.
The idiots thought Iraq would turn into some Jeffersonian democracy. It’s now an Islamic Constitution vassal of Iran. Also, taking away vast amounts of military forces from Afghanistan was insane.
Saddam Hussein protected Assyrian Christians from Islamists. After destroyed Saddam, Christians in Iraq that had been there for 2000 years were systematically exterminated. Christianity is now extinct in Iraq
I respect that. I remember 2001 and 9/11 and I remember supporting invading IRAQ/AFGHANISTAN. It was many years afterwards (for both) that I realized we (America) were duped into nothing but MIC wars. In the end, after we chased Bin Laden into Pakistan we should have invaded it immediately. A lot of lives would have been saved.
The ability to say “I made a mistake” is the sign of someone who knows himself and not driven by emotion.
Good grief. He was 18. Don’t be a pander bear JD.
W and Cheney should be in federal prison for the Iraq War and I was a big supporter of it
Everyone that was on the right mostly backed that war.
I was wrong about it too.