Iraq was always a diversion, the real enemy was Iran. The fortunate thing was, that Saddam Hussein was doing a pretty good job of keeping the Iranians at bay for the many years after the Shah was kicked off the throne, and the Iranians were kept from doing mischief elsewhere.
Saddam was a brutal SOB, but for years, he was OUR SOB, until he went all fickle on us, and the US had to teach him a lesson. The First Gulf War curbed him back a little bit in line, but then, he went into warlord mode on various factions within Iraq, and it looked like the country was about to spin totally out of control.
Bush-43 made an executive decision, and it was to either get Hussein back on board, or put in a substitute player. Saddam did not like either option, and he made the fight a lot more strenuous than it might otherwise have been. Meanwhile, like fighting a forest fire, other little side conflicts began cropping up, and the very situation that had been the focus of the fears to begin with, began to form up in reality.
The fire got damped down, but it was not completely out, and the alliance that had deposed Hussein departed too soon.
My take on The Donald is that he would have gone directly to Saddam Hussein and held him to the terms of the rough agreement that had been forced upon Iraq after the First Gulf War.
It’s easy though. Trump wasn’t there to make that decision, nor everything involved in the decision when it was made.
So he’s just talking up a storm and running against Bush.
His campaign to me looks so much like Obama’s now. A guy, who just continues moving through the whole spectrum of political points it would seem, getting media attention, swatting at Republicans and now a former President which hasn’t been in office for almost 8 years.
Trump to me holds little appeal.
It’s easy though. Trump wasn’t there to make that decision, nor everything involved in the decision when it was made.
So he’s just talking up a storm and running against Bush.
His campaign to me looks so much like Obama’s now. A guy, who just continues moving through the whole spectrum of political points it would seem, getting media attention, swatting at Republicans and now a former President which hasn’t been in office for almost 8 years.
Trump to me holds little appeal.