Posted on 05/17/2015 7:04:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
Make that The author shows his ignorance
Uhhhhhhhh...and what were the consequences again? Please don't make me click on the link. Just tell me, does he spell them out later in the article?
Or are we just expected to know what those consequences were?
Born in Brady, Texas in 1954, Chapman grew up in Midland and Austin. He attended Harvard University, where he was on the staff of The Harvard Crimson, and graduated with honors in 1976. He has been a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and has served on the Visiting Committee of the University of Chicago Law School.
Chapman is another arrogant Harvard Grad. I have lost so much respect for the Ivy League.
The propaganda from the "progressive" media has been successful in convincing many that the Iraq War was all about WMDs. It was not.
I am not a fan of amnestyRubio, but this morning on FoxNews Sunday, Chris Wallace was a real jerk.
He kept badgering Rubio regarding whether ‘now’ we should have gone into Iraq knowing what we didn’t know ‘then’. His convoluted badgering was not about Rubio’s response, but about Rubio’s supposed failure to answer the question to the liking of some female reporter earlier in the week.
The catastrophe of the Iraq War was the Obama Administration. The US Military pull out left a vacuum that Iran and ISIS were happy to fill. Standing O for O and an epic fail for Stevie.
Also, I am so glad that Obama had nothing to do with Libya. Hey Chapman (aka Obama’s Butt Boy), how many sets of knee pads have you gone through in the last seven years?
The response by Jeb Bush to the question about whether he would have invaded Irag in hindsight was very revealing. The fact that he answered the question as posed was laughable; it showed he is not a quick thinker. He accepted the premise behind a trick question and tried to “honestly” answer it. The cause of what is happening in Iraq is not the result of what George W Bush did, which was to send troops to invade Iraq, get rid of Saddam Hussein, and successfully pacify the country. The proximate cause is what Barack Obama did, which was to withdraw American troops from Iraq before Iraq was strong enough to fend off enemies. The question as posed to Jeb Bush infers that Isis was inevitable. In Chris Wallace’s interview with Rubio, Wallace mentioned to Rubio that a leader successfully arranges events. Why does Obama get a pass for his failure to successfully arrange events in Iraq by the media and the Republicans?
How was his article ignorant?
Iran naturally filled that vacuum once Saddam was removed. Iran is better off now, than before.
This idea that stability was going to be the ruling stasis is absurd. Reagan and Bush senior had good reason to keep Saddam in power, and that wisdom was ignored by this new breed of do good conservatism.
Now the entire ME is aflame, and Obama can be blamed, but not all of it is his fault. Bush couldn't get a SOFA, how the hell was Obama too?
Are we better off now. No, the Christan winter in the ME will continue, and Islam will continue to be Islam, marching across the sands like a plague.
This about Jeb Bush’s fumbling of the ISIS question, people forget to key points. We didn’t create it
1) ISIS can be traced all the way back to Zarqawi’s Jama’at al-Tawhidw’al-Jihad which (1999)
2) Coalition and Iraqi tribes stomped Al Qaeda in Iraq and its remnants fled into Syria, without funding and weapons from patrons in the middle east it wouldn’t have rose from the ashes.
“The propaganda from the “progressive” media has been successful in convincing many that the Iraq War was all about WMDs. It was not.”
What else was it? That was pretty much the whole enchilada in Colin Powells UN presentation. WMDs, and we aren’t taking a chance on another 9/11.
There were much better reasons to attack the Saudis IMO.
Obama created ISIS by pulling out with the complete absence of security. And he must be feeling some heat, otherwise there would be no need to provide him cover now by badgering the GOP candidates.
Even here on FR everything is Bush's Fault.
The NY Slimes did an 8 part series recently on how there WERE WMDs in Iraq, but they just lied about it during the Bush years.
And furthermore, he and McCain literally helped ISIS grow into the nightmare it is. It has only been 2 years ago that Obama was stopped from bombing in BEHALF of ISIS.
Its widely known that Benghazi was a backchannel method of supplying ISIS with weapons from Libya through Turkey.
Yes, Bush made a bad mistake in how the war was conducted, in appointing Bremer, in nation building rather than occupation, in not -violently- responding to the not so hidden Iranian participation in the war.
But ISIS is 100% a McCain/Obama/Hitlery creation.
It was the Syrian wing of the Arab spring. Even a cursory look at events shows that to be true.
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