Posted on 06/20/2014 6:21:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Hillary Clinton is doing it. Glenn Beck did it too. And Dick Cheney? Not so much.
This is the season for admitting you were wrong on Iraq in 2003. And all Republicans who either regret their vote to authorize the invasion of Iraq, or who were silent on foreign policy matters back then, should take this occasion to step up and say they'll never make the same mistake twice. To them I say: Do it for the sake of your conscience, and if not that, at least for the sake of your career.
In the Obama years, Republicans have habituated themselves to being noncommittal on policy questions. They are for cutting the budget, somehow. They are for repealing ObamaCare and replacing it with, well, something. They want tax reform, but let's not get into the details now.
In some ways, this makes political sense. Don't give your opponents targets to hit. But the damage that has been done to the Republican brand on foreign policy is not repairing itself. Obama's faults and flubs in that area aren't giving the GOP an advantage either.
So say it loud and proud: Iraq is a mess. We helped to make it that way. But we have no business putting American treasure, honor, and lives between ISIS and Nouri al-Maliki.
There's no better time than now, when the die-hard hawks are urging "re-engagement." Some of you were not in national politics at the time. South Carolina's Mark Sanford once said that he was against "preemptive war." Now that he's back in Congress, he should take the occasion to shout that out.
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Guess we were supposed to keep the Iraq No Fly Zone for an eternity then. Even under the no fly zone Saddam launched an attack on the Kurds.
I like Beck at times but he needs to shut up. Even if I thought liberals were right about ONE or TWO things I would not give them ANY credit because they will lie about the other 98 things they’re wrong about.
These liberals were all over the map about Iraq, especially after 9-11.
These same liberals that are supposedly right about Iraq would have supported the same war, with the exact series of events, had Clinton or Obama conducted it with MSM press support. So there is no need to help them. If you want to change your mind on Iraq then do so, but don’t give these evil people any credit.
What I find remarkable is people forget we WON this war....we left Iraq in relative peace, as much as you can achieve or expect....
Yes, it cost far too much blood and treasure, but we won dispite the democrats best efferts to undermine it...
The current situation there is a direct relationship to Obama failed foreign policy blunders....mainly with his failed Arab Spring initiatives....
What I find remarkable is people forget we WON this war....we left Iraq in relative peace, as much as you can achieve or expect....
Yes, it cost far too much blood and treasure, but we won dispite the democrats best efferts to undermine it...
The current situation there is a direct relationship to Obama failed foreign policy blunders....mainly with his failed Arab Spring initiatives....
The Iraq war was always wrong and always unwinnable. It was premised upon lies and utopian fantasies. Obama’s a piece of Shiite, but Iraq is Bush’s disaster and will always have his name on it.
Glenbeck so desires to be loved by the Liberals.
Iraq has/had a chance. Now, let’s talk about your two heroes Hillary and Obama and their destruction of the government in Libya. That clusterf**k was screwed up right from the start and it’s only getting worse.
Attacking Iraq was overwhelmingly justified.
We removed one of histories worst dictators who was a threat to our security.
Rebuilding Iraq was a add on and a risk. We knew it might not work.
Obama is to blame for not negotiating the status of forces agreement which would have given the Iraqi army intelligence and probably prevented the Isas take over.
this is the moment that obama withdrew the troops for...
More $$$$$
Yeah..I don’t know what his deal is.
I supported going into Iraq. Where GWB and I parted company was that I didn’t support staying there to rebuild Iraq or take on the impossible task of trying to bring about democracy there.
Right now, except for a very clear national interest, I don’t support liberating or saving muslims.
Because Ubama fumbled the ball?
Bulls**t. Now? Why now? Because you [author] say so? I think it would be a much better time, oh, say, 73 days from now. Yeah, I like that date better.
I would say now is the time for you [author] to admit that finding the WMDs that GWBush “lied” to you about which you are so damn smart to say were “never there” but despite the wonderful and thorough (and ironically named) “UNinspection” are “actually there” and seeing that they are now in Jihadi hands which was the primary reason for our invasion of Iraq, now that this scenario has indeed become a reality...perhaps now is instead the time for you to admit that you cannot accept any kind of disparate view from your own because of your own diverse, egalitarian, yet bonehead blind idiocy and inability to come up with a single original thought.
“I heard Beck recently say with my own ears that he came out for homosexual marriage before zero did.”
I wonder how he squared his “conversion” with his Mormon faith?
Guess he and Reid have formed another “offshoot.”
What chemical weapons? Saddam didn’t have any.
Yeah, just ask the media.
It was right to attack any person or group or nation that aided and abetted the persons involved in 9/11 or those who underwrote, supported, or aided them.
That is my conclusion, but it isn’t my conclusion only. It is also the conclusion of the US Congress that voted in session a joint resolution containing roughly those words.
Reprisals should have been launched and people and nations taken down.
It was in nation building that I objected to the strategy.
Will the Kenyan admit that Obamacare is a disaster?
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