Posted on 05/19/2015 7:41:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Edited on 05/19/2015 7:58:08 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Probable Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush got himself into trouble by sort of, sort of not, answering the question whether he would have supported going into Iraq in 2003
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We lost the war before the first Marine crossed the start line.
It’s debatable but the same thing is going on right now in Syria. Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t?
Taking out Saddam, Kadafy, Mubarek and the Shah of Iran will prove to be one of the worst foreign policy disasters in our history. Hindsight is 20-20 but they kept things under control.
It was still an unprovoked attack on a US Navy ship. Remember when the USS Pueblo was attacked? Nothing was done.
With STARK, Saddam sent a message for us to keep out. It only cost a couple of dozen US Navy lives, so what’s to worry about!
Then there was Gerald Bull and his Super Canon for Saddam.
It seems Bull died of lead “poisoning”, a few .22s behind the ear.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Bull
“The co-operation between Bull and Saddam Hussein was an immediate threat to Iran and Israel as Iran had endured an eight-year-long war with Iraq, and Israel had had previous military engagements with Iraq during the Arab–Israeli war.
Watching development of the gun, Israel feared it could be used to launch nuclear weapons, but the re-designed SCUD missiles were of greater concern at that moment. As for Iran, it was under threat from both Bull’s supergun and his re-designed SCUD missiles.[29][30]”
Yes.
Where we went wrong was staying and trying to “nation build” after we got him.
We should have declared victory, brought all the troops home, had parades through every major city and been done with that stink hole.
Point number 2 was why I would have been happy if Clinton had taken Saddam out. B.O. obviously blew it by leaving too early. The blood letting in Iraq is B.O.s legacy.
You forgot the Israeli attack on a U. S. vessel during the 1967 war.
Israel was afraid the ship was sending information to its enemies.
I read posts like yours and I we’ve entered a time warp where posts likemyours aremfrom liberal lefties with Bush Derangement Syndrome from the 2000’s.
Unbelievable how you parrot Michael Moore and Obama talking points from 10 years ago and think it’s “conservative”.
Yes.
We did what we thought was right at the time, only problem was GW didn't run for a third term and dumbass took over and screwed everything up...
And in regards to Benghazi, he was running guns thru there into Syria the same as he did with ‘fast and furious’ and everyone in his administration knew about it and kept quite and now look at ANOTHER mess dumbass made....
You’re delusional sport!
I do believe, however, that you entered a time warp that has closed your mind to the Republicrat complicity in screwing up America.
Saddam Hussein was directly responsible for violating the terms of the Gulf War cease-fire:
- shooting at US aircraft
- violating the no-fly zone
- screwing around with weapons inspectors.
Saddam Hussein was a huge threat to Israel (remember the scuds?)
Saddam Hussein had to go. The nation building stuff can be debated, but Saddam Hussein was the center of all the problems at the time.
And stamping out Islam.
You nailed it.
The evil cancer in the White Hut needs to go, but I don't see anyone taking significant action to remove his ass.
Neither Bush I or Bush II were Conservatives. Ronald Reagan was the first and last Conservative since Calvin Coolidge.
We can debate this till the cows come home, it is irrelevant. We went and executed that war. Congress approved and most of America approved at the time.
The truly calamatous mistake was pulling our troops out. The middle east is a mess today because democrats are evil and they sided with evil...
There were a whole host of good reasons for going in there. One reason not mentioned is that he violated every single one of our agreements in the cease fire.
Btw, why does no one mention the NY Times recent 8 part story on how there WERE WMDs there?
Fact is you are more aligned in your thinking with Obama and Michael Moore and hard leftists.
The KSA and Pakistan sure got lucky with having Jeb's King-kissing idiot brother in office as US POTUS, followed by the Pakistan-vacationing crypto-Muslim/Islamophile Obama.
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