WikiLeaks doc show how George W. Bush's misguided Iraq War made Iran a bigger threat

NY Daily News ^ | Tuesday, November 30th 2010, | Dick Cohen

[presidio9]

Say what you want about WikiLeaks - and I don't much like what it has done - it nevertheless would be useful for its founder, Julian Assange, to follow George W. Bush as he lopes around the country, promoting his new book, "Decision Points." When, for instance, Bush attempts to justify the Iraq war by saying the world is a better place without Saddam Hussein, Assange could reach into his bag of leaked U.S. government cables and cite Saudi King Abdullah's private observation that the war had given Iraq to Iran as a "gift on a golden platter."

[a fool in paradise]

Gaddaffi gave up Lybia’s WMD program after Bush took on Saddam.

[Cicero]

On the book's dust jacket, Bush is shown in a ranching outfit. A Peter Pan outfit would be more fitting. Like him, Bush has never grown up.

Just who has never grown up?

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

“as he lopes around the country”
because of bias and poor writing like this I will NEVER buy a NY Daily News - a low class rag.

[presidio9]

Leave it to Cohen to find a far left silver lining in what adult politicians universally consider an all hands fiasco. Reminds my of people suggesting that Oklahoma City scored some elusive graitas for X42.

[DannyTN]

Saddam was the only state leader to publicly applaud 9/11.
Saddam openly bragged about paying relatives of Palistian terrorists.
Saddam's state papers ran articles about their "nuclear Mujadeen".

You can't say you have a war on terror and not do something about Saddam. The problem is that you also need to do something about:

• Iran because of their terrorist (Hezbollah) funding, their meddling in Iraq and Afghanistan, their promises to wipe Israel out, and their nuclear ambitions.
• Saudi Arabia, which is funding terrorists and Al Quaida.
• The rest of the Muslim world which thinks they have a divine mandate to conquer infidels through force.

[DannyTN]

Saddam was the only state leader to publicly applaud 9/11.
Saddam openly bragged about paying relatives of Palistian terrorists.
Saddam's state papers ran articles about their "nuclear Mujadeen".

You can't say you have a war on terror and not do something about Saddam. The problem is that you also need to do something about:

• Iran because of their terrorist (Hezbollah) funding, their meddling in Iraq and Afghanistan, their promises to wipe Israel out, and their nuclear ambitions.
• Saudi Arabia, which is funding terrorists and Al Quaida.
• The rest of the Muslim world which thinks they have a divine mandate to conquer infidels through force.

[MissesBush]

Oh please. The treason crowd in the media just can’t stop using the Satanic Beast Ass-hat-anage’s treachery to further their sedition. Iran would be the threat it is regardless of whether we went into Iraq or not. If anything, they might be an even bigger threat as we’d now face a nuclear arms race between 2 crazies in the heart of the Middle East. So the New York Daily Spews can stuff it up their Saddam-loving rears.

[VRWCmember]

When, for instance, Bush attempts to justify the Iraq war by saying the world is a better place without Saddam Hussein, Assange could reach into his bag of leaked U.S. government cables and cite Saudi King Abdullah's private observation that the war had given Iraq to Iran as a "gift on a golden platter." Iraq now...

So the opinion of the saudi king, contrary to any supporting facts, is an overwhelming rebuttal to the obvious fact that the world is a better place without Saddam Hussein in power? Wow, I knew Cohen was an intellectual lightweight, but didn't know until now that he is a complete idiot.

[PhilCollins]

I dislike Bush because he’s too liberal, on domesitc issues. However, I agree with him about the war, and I was there. I was in the navy for 21 years, and, Sept. 2004-Mar. ‘05, I was near Baghdad, in the Triangle of Death, in a marine infantry battalion. While I was there, I didn’t complain about American presence, in Iraq. After I returned to the U.S., I’ve heard many people, who haven’t served, in the military, complain about the war.

[ColdOne]

I was wondering yesterday when I would see Bush’s fault, I feel better now. /s

[marron]

If you’re looking for a master stroke that leaves no collateral damage and nothing left to do afterward, you’ll never take any action ever.

Saddam was a butcher and we hanged him. The Iranians are butchers and we’ve taken up positions on all four sides of them. If push comes to shove we at least have the bases we need.

If they soon have nukes, they soon would have had nukes had we not hanged Saddam. And if we decide to do something about them, we’re in better shape to do it than we would have been otherwise. And if we decide not to do anything about them, then whats the complaint?

[Tzimisce]

Wow look at that, the the document dump proves the libs have been right all along. :)

[a fool in paradise]

Clinton and Gore were regretting that 911 didn’t happen “on their watch” because it would’ve “made them” great presidents.

Except the WTC was bombed on Clinton’s watch. So was the USS Cole. And the US embassies in Africa. And he folded. Treated it as crimes of vandalism, not acts of war.

[mnehring]

I was wondering how long they would focus on the ‘previous administration’ no matter how much of a stretch (and this is a pretty big stretch)

[bkepley]

The writer is too dense (or Bush deranged) to see that Abdullah’s problem is that Iraq is shia and the Saudi’s appreciated that Saddam was not.

[a fool in paradise]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/525797/posts
Chris Matthews: Clinton never had shot at greatness/never got opportunity Bush was given Tuesday
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 09/13/2001 | Chris Matthews

Washington — Lucky though he was, Bill Clinton never had his shot at greatness...he never got the opportunity George W. Bush was given this Tuesday: the historic chance to lead.

“I would have preferred being president during World War II” he said one night in January 1995. “I’m a person out of my time.” - Bill Clinton

[a fool in paradise]

Is wikileaks running ALL of the documents or is Sandy Berger getting first pass review?

[Zhang Fei]

Excerpt: The Arab world's alarm at the imminence of an Iranian bomb is on full display in the leaked documents - as is the Obama administration's methodical and effective attempts to isolate Tehran.

This posting really needs a barf alert. That's like saying Obama has been really methodical and effective in isolating impalas from lions. Impalas have always known that lions are their enemies. Those that got confused quickly became extinct. The fact is that Iran had a nuclear program before the invasion of Iraq. Iraq today is more effective a counterweight to Iran than it was during the sanctions regime for one important reason - a US troop presence that can call on substantial aerial assets based in-country. It's pretty sad that the State Department continues to be filled with woolly-headed morons.

[Oldexpat]

There was a point, before the surge, that the British had mostly ceded control of the south around Basra to Iran backed thugs. But that ended with the attack on Basra by the Iraqi govt..finally backed by the US and then the surge.