So you'd rather Saddam, Russia, Iran, Venezuela and Co. had been allowed to replace the petrodollar with the petroeuro and destroy the dollar by doing so?
You'd rather have the housing bubble be imploding on top of the externally directed hard landing of the dollar?
Bush did the right thing in Iraq. Maybe he could have done a better job articulating the economic motivations of the action - but nonetheless our national interest was, and IS, being served by our military presence there.
I have no arguement against removing Saddam..I have a BIG arguement against how it was done.
Think back...the “Plan” in the post 9/11 world was to establish a “foothold of democracy in the Middle East” was it not?
And Iraq was the preferred starting point...rather than Afghanistan...due to the secular nature of their people and the perceived threat of WMD in the hands of that thuggish clique from Tikrit, right? ( The presence of all that oil didn’t hurt either ,right? Somewhere along the line I believe we were told this war would pay for itself ..if I’m not mistaken)
So how did we go about establishing this foothold of Democracy in the Islamic World? That’s where I have the problem...Rumsfeld kept wanting to vailidate his theories on lighter faster forces...and on the face of it ..it seemed to work..we got in there and toppled Saddam in what..about 4 or 5 weeks.....?
But what happened afterwards? ...think back....oh yeah..we decided to come up with THAT gameplan AFTERWARD...while the Mullahs in Tehran kept close on our heels w/ their operatives as we went in...and those ammo dumps got looted by the people who lost their jobs and honor and dignity
when Bremer put them all out in the street...
Some “Plan”.
“Monday Morning Quarterbacking” my ass.