Frankly, the guy should be given the same place in the ash heap of history as an @sshole like Robert McNamara — because he knew damn well what the U.S. was getting into in 2003 but obviously didn’t give a sh!t.
Fact - Saddam had plans to reinvigorate his WMD programs when the sanctions were lifted. The sanctions were falling apart when we invaded.
Fact - Saddam was negotiating with Al Queda before we invaded. They had not reached agreement yet. Then we invaded.
You assume that everything would be just wonderful if we had not invaded. But there are plenty of scenarios where things could have been much worse.
One thing President Bush did not anticipate - The incredible hostility of the Establishment Media, willing, and urging, an American defeat rather than allow a Republican president to win a war.
That's not Monday-morning quarterbacking. That's called reading a scouting report -- authored by former U.S. Secretary of Defense in the early 1990s when he explained that an invasion of Iraq would result in the exact same disastrous scenario that unfolded after the 2003 invasion.
Fact - Saddam had plans to reinvigorate his WMD programs when the sanctions were lifted. The sanctions were falling apart when we invaded.
Fact - Saddam was negotiating with Al Queda before we invaded. They had not reached agreement yet. Then we invaded.
I'd be curious to see your sources for these "facts."
One thing President Bush did not anticipate - The incredible hostility of the Establishment Media, willing, and urging, an American defeat rather than allow a Republican president to win a war.
If he didn't anticipate that, then he had no business running anything in his life more complicated than a lemonade stand. Blaming the "Establishment Media" for losing a war is like blaming misogyny or Russian hacking for Hillary Clinton's loss in 2016.
Fact-Iran was a bigger supporter of terrorism than Iraq.
Fact-Iran was and is a bigger direct threat to us than Saddam, her was.
Fact-Iraq planned to kill W’s father in Kuwait.