He is correct.
Yup, and it’s a mistake to keep illegals in “the shadows” and not let them come out thereof to become “new taxpayers”.
Next: Did we really have to fight Hitler?
No, it was a huge mistake for Obama to take the troops out too soon. Even Leon Panetta (lifelong Dem Congressman & Obama’s DOD Sec) was against him doing it.
The real mistake in Iraq was in pretending they could be a democracy.
Getting rid of Saddam was a good thing but I think we should have tamed someone from within his regime to take over.
It was a bigger mistake not to leave a sizable security force in Iraq.
Where do we go from here, Rand? Are you running to be president in 2003 or 2016? Your constant harping on the decision to go into Iraq is academic, petty and irrelevant. Saying you wouldn’t have gone into Iraq is not a policy for the future. What will you do now is the question. Period.
Was Chamberlain right all along?
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Ok. We got back from desert storm and everyone except me said oh duh you guys shoulda killed Hussein
And I said no it was not the mission. We’re not in the business of overtly assassinating people plus it would’ve caused a major vaccuum of power and imbalance we’d have to pay for. Geo bush as questionable as he was had been head of CIA and had a good team. Of course he was right. Never stuck up for himself in public came across as a wimp
And no one cared what I had to say because I’m just a stupid girl blonde
Now the Zelig rand Paul says it and ohh we re so brilliant
Kak!!!!!
i agree with him on this point. Gulf War 1 OTOH was a proper response to an invasion.
I disagree, but it doesn’t matter because I don’t support Rand Paul and eventually he’s going to flame out.
It might have made sense if Bush had followed through. But he didn’t.
I thought his plan would be to take on Iraq, capture the oil fields, secure our oil supply, and then take on the Saudis, who were the real force behind 9/11. That way, if the Saudis blew up their fields, we could soon fix them, and rely on Iraqi oil in the meantime.
The war started well, in spite of the sabotage by Turkey, but it went downhill from there, and soon became pointless. And after Bush defeated Saddam Hussein, he gave the oil away to the Chinese and the French. Great job! Bush broke the basic rule: Never start a war unless you intend to win it.
Let’s face it ... it would definitely be a mistake to choose Rand Paul ... :-) ...
We did the right thing, we just can’t get any solid footing with immigrants out voting us.
At best we get a narrow victory, and then the left just undoes everything. There is no longer any national will in America, no overall plan of we win, they lose, no national identity, or national goals, or national anything, no us against them.
We were right to penetrate into the heart of Islam, we just didn’t hold and consolidate our gains and follow a 50 year plan to rehabilitate and reshape the Middle East.
It was Obama’s foreign policy in Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Syria and Yemen that led to Islamists taking control. While the Iraq War preceded what is happening in Middle East, it was not the cause. I remember “Arab Spring”, US troops withdrawal, and arming of rebels preceding it - all happening during Obama admin
I agree completely.
Saddam and his army should have been used to conquer Saudi Arabia, then turned into Iran to meet the joint US-Indian task force coming through Afghanistan after the conquest of Pakistan.
Would the Pauls like to explain the phrase “Law of Nations” in the constitution to us?
They are no better than the liberals in picking and choosing the bits they like in the document.
I always figured that Iran and North Korea would be the big winners and nothing useful would come of it.
Perspective is important. Nothing that was intentionally given back after being won was ultimately worth fighting for.