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To: entropy12

Have you ever lived in the middle-east? Can you show me one solitary example of a successful democracy in the entire history of mankind in the middle-east?

Bush was out of his mind in invading Iraq trying to convert it to a western style democracy.

My first 20 years of life were spent surrounded by 150 million Muslims. I have seen first hand how influential Koran is in their lives. Even more than the bible is in life of Christians.

So we sacrificed 4500 lives of brave young soldiers and over 1500 Billion dollars in Iraq war. How was that a sane policy?


I never said it was a sane policy.

I just don’t believe in giving Obama a pass. He blundered big-time and it will cost us.


58 posted on 06/20/2014 11:04:55 PM PDT by boycott
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To: boycott

Why would we expect Obummer to do anything which is in national interest? He messed up Egypt, Libya, Syria & Iraq.

Obummer did what was politically popular to get elected. Americans were tired of Iraq war and Afghanistan war. People liked to hear Obummer was going to end the wars. They liked to hear Iraqi’s should fend for themselves.

But Obummer could have never caused ISIS to take over a huge chunk of Iraq if Bush did not invade Iraq in the first place. Saddam was a brutal dictator, but he kept the fanatics in check. Ditto with Mubarak in Egypt. The so called Arab spring is turning out to be a nightmare as I expected.


61 posted on 06/20/2014 11:12:03 PM PDT by entropy12 (Obummer = worst president ever, thanks to voters who abstained on election day!)
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To: boycott

“obama blundered big time”

In many policy areas, that’s true. But in Iraq? How did he blunder? He got us out of there - a place we never should have been. Unless you say the US should have occupied Iraq forever — is that what you’re saying?

The Bush-Cheney invasion destabilized Iraq, and made today’s chaos inevitable. That’s the difficult truth that Bushbots on Freerepublic can’t handle.


121 posted on 06/22/2014 8:30:40 AM PDT by WilliamIII
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