Typical like most liberals hate/blame Bush...
The problem is that not enough people use context as in, WHERE WOULD WE BE IF BUSH HAD NOT ACTED... How many more American citizens would be dead....
If Bush had not acted against Saddam Hussein in March 2003 and if Saddam had then (emboldened by UBL Success on 911) and gaining strength (read money) using the Oil For Food corruption scam.. either directly or indirectly funneled... (Money, Weapons, Assistance) to Al-Qaeda and then they performed another more grandiose attack on the U.S. what would the critics say then?
Wouldn’t the anti-war left decry Bush in that he didn’t do enough to stop terror.... Wouldn’t the Right ridicule Bush for failing to take action like Clinton before him?
And then after proof of Saddams involvement would it have changed the outcome of the insurgency? Wouldn’t the facts on the ground still be the same? The question that America is wrestling with is.... Is it worth it? and to that answer Bush and his administration has done a poor job in reminding America that it is worth it....
If of course you do not use context then yes everything that any President has ever done has consequently been the wrong decision at the wrong place at the wrong time....
You're not asking the correct question.
Think GHWB, not GWB.
Ron Paul foreign policy would have ceded Kuwait as the 14th (?) provence of Iraq. Whether the Arabian peninsula would have been taken by force or simply the threat of Sadaam's vastly superior military, post US withdrawl from the Persian Gulf, can be debated.
However since 1991 you would have had Sadaam, with active WMD and terrorist training programs, astride over half the world's oil reserves. Half presuming he harbored no ambitions toward Iran.
I'm sure he would have simply sold us oil at discount prices, the region basking in peace, since the troops that weren't there before being invited in by the Saudis wouldn't be there, and our naval presence would be gone.
Neither the Soviets nor Chinese would perceive opportunity, any more than they will in the power vacumn left by an immediate withdrawl from the region today.