Saddam Hussein was trying to get OPEC to slow production before the War began. We would have been paying $5/gallon for gas 4 years ago if Saddam was still in charge of Iraq. Removing Saddam from power was to the US as removing Gray Davis from power was to Kalifornia. It bought us a few more years before inevitable progressive financial collapse. Basically the US is fighting wars for benefactors [House of Saud-Islam Rift, Japan-Oil Supply, China-Oil Supply]. These benefactors in return finance our progressive deficit spending. Stop the foreign funded wars, and the progressive DC gravy train goes belly up. This explains in part why our borders are so poorly defended and why our progressive cities are under siege from gang warfare. DC has to service its foreign debtors before it can service its domestic citizens.
It will probably take 20 years before we really know if it was really worth it or not.
If a democratic and peaceful middle east emerges from all this it will have been worth it. If not, well...
“Saddam Hussein was trying to get OPEC to slow production before the War began. We would have been paying $5/gallon for gas 4 years ago if Saddam was still in charge of Iraq.”
Stop it, as bad as this article is he does make some good points and one of them is the $500 billion dollar war to nowhere.
The defense of the war has now reached moronic proportions, the argument of “We would be paying $4 a gallon 5 years ago if Saddam was still in charge” is frankly naive and stupid. The war has been costly, and poorly run and will only continue to affect the average American. Stop being partisan for a second and look at what this president has accomplished in 8 years. How anyone can defend these policies goes beyond me.
Arnold brought us an increase in the growth of spending, more regulation, more corruption, more gun grabbing, and more enviro hooey. He has driven jobs out of state at an accelerated rate and put us $70 billion deeper in debt for "projects" that mostly constitute malfeasance.
Yep, an entirely realistic analogy.