The war was a success but we left about 100 years too early. Our forces did a fine job evicting Saddam.
What was so bad about Saddam? He was just one of many secular Socialist Arab dictators who brutalized his enemies. How was he any worse than the Saudi Wahabbist scum, or Assad, or Mubarak? There weren't 15 of 19 Iraqis on those planes on 9/11. Arafat was 100x worse and we made deals with him. ISIS is 1000x worse than Saddam on his most sadistic day.
And with fewer casualties in a 10 year involvement than the first weeks of the invasion of Europe in June 1944.
Militarily it was a well executed operation overall. Politically the opposition to W screwed him every chance they got. We let them.
The media skewered all of us with disinformation. We let them
The same was true in Afghanistan.
I served under Nixon, carter, Reagan and W (rejoined reserves after 9/11).
Yes, I do miss W.
You know when it first started I said....smart. Establish dominance and then put a base in right in the middle of the trouble spots. I was envisioning Our presence in Getmany.
Then the BS started and look what they did
I knew we were in deep caca then.
Ya, we should have stay in Iraq decades longer, and spent trillions more and offered more up more to die. Who gives damn if it looted America and left it in total decline. Lets keep things business as usual with these disastrous foreign policies.
Go Bush~ Go Cruz
Ousting Saddam was a terrible mistake. Yes, he was a tyrant but at least he was secular and Christian communities were tolerated.
Now ISIS controls much of Iraq and the Christians are almost completely gone. What a waste.
Yes, I know Obama has a large share of the blame but the US had no right to invade Iraq. Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia were, and still are, more dangerous.