“IF he does not put the US first, then what’s with the war.”
In retrospect, I’m pretty sure he didn’t consider weapons of mass distruction or Sadam’s imminent use of them as the reason for war. I’m not sure what his real objectives were, but the war has been a disaster and we will end up leaving in disgrace.
As Alberta’s Child said yesterday in a different thread:
“If someone had approached the Iranian government back in 2002 and suggested that within five years the following conditions would be in place . . .
1. Iraq’s Ba’athist government overthrown
2. Saddam Hussein executed
3. A new Shi’ite-dominated government in place in Iraq
4. The U.S. utterly incapable of mounting a serious military campaign anywhere in the Middle East
5. The ruling party in the U.S. government thrown out of office, to be replaced by elected officials who are basically avowed Communists
6. Iran’s biggest export (oil) trading at historic high prices
7. (As a result of #6) Iran’s nuclear program accelerated to a point far beyond anything they could have imagined.
. . . I suspect nobody in Iran’s government would have believed you. They couldn’t have done any better if they had placed their own agents in position of power in the U.S. government.”
I still believe part of the reason for Iraq. Was prep. for Iran.