Posted on 08/14/2015 6:14:11 AM PDT by C19fan
5,000 of our best young Americans dead, tens of thousands with physical and psychological wounds, their families torn apart, over one trillion dollars spent, abandoned US equipment being used by ISIS, a hundred thousand Iraqi civilians dead, ISIS running much of Iraq, Iran running the rest. What an enormous accomplishment, Jeb.
Saddam = Isis
We had a solid base on BOTH sides of Iran---which will be sorely needed because eventually, mark my words, we will have to foment a revolution there and/or invade.
We had the war won. It was a done deal when ZEro came in. But Jeb is far too "kind" to show the folly of Zero's policy.
Reagan responsible for the Iraq war? What have you been smoking? Reagan left office In 1988; the first Iraq war was I 1991, the second in 2003 Go back to taking care of your radical groups, Mr. Soros.
And, as a Trump supporter, he was wrong on this. We had the game won in 2007-8 before Zero destroyed the victory.
I don’t really care about what ¡Yeb! thinks about Iraq.
What matters to me is that he wants to turn the USA into North Mexico.
No reason to waste lose or maim 3000 good soldiers and a trillion dollars.
>> What exactly did killing Saddam Hussein get us?
“Another day older, and deeper in debt.”
...and taking you out will even be better....
Our treaty with Kuwait was responsible for their not having a military to block the Iraqi invasion. H.W. Bush didn’t negotiate that treaty, Reagan did. The treaty stipulated that if military defense of Kuwait was needed, we would provide that. The idea had been that fewer big armies would somehow make the middle east more stable.
You’re not very clear on this concept of diplomacy, are you?
There should never have been any “second war” and that falls squarely on H.W. Bush.
His kids have both been even worse militarily.
The Christians, Jews and others being executed for being Christian, Jewish or some other non-approved theology disagree with you.
Taking out Saddam destabilized the entire region and unleashed Jihad in Middle East, North, Central Africa and on the West. This is W legacy. Saddam was in a box going nowhere. W put family business ahead of the nation business, that is an unforgivable transgression.
You are living in a dream world and trying to rewrite history.
Jeb shoulda listent to his mudda and stayed out of the race.
Go AAAAWAY JEBBBBBB!!!!!!!
I was yelling my head off about it.
In an effort to prop up the value of the dollar, Richard Nixon negotiated a deal with Saudi Arabia that in exchange for arms and protection they would denominate all future oil sales in U.S. dollars
We were primarily defending Saudi Arabia, Kuwait being a client state of Saudi Arabia and it was Nixon that made the "deal" not Reagan.
I remember the US asking Kuwait for permission to base equipment on Kuwait soil and Kuwait denying the request. That forced us to bring in huge barges to base the equipment on. So I was pissed when we came to their rescue. But it was Kuwait we were rescuing is was the House of Saud which was Sadams' next target.
it was NOT Kuwait we were
Never heard that one
Doubtful
What wars were going on that Jebster was supposed to go fight?
Bush 43 was in Guard when Vietnam was already in drawdown and pilots not needed
Bush41 was a Ww2 naval,aviator
Sounds like typical DU stuff
One of the reasons it failed is that, after we pushed ISIS out of Iraq into Syria, we withdrew, left a billion dollars in arms and equipment near the border, and then sent arms to ISIS. A recipe to destroy hope for democracy and inviting ISIS back in.
These days, I am thinking we were wrong all the way back to the First Gulf War. We should have let Saddam have Kuwait (after all, that stupid ambassadorette originally gave him the go-ahead), encouraged him to further oppose the Iranians, and told the Saudis to go to Hell.
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