As I recall it was Bush II who got us in there because, well, we’re “fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here”, no...”we’re spreading democracy”, no...Sadaam’s a bad, bad guy and - we don’t like bad guys!
Bush talked tough, but put the American police state on overdrive with the creation of DHS, TSA, and who knows what else.
Then proceeded to take away the rights of honest, law-abiding Americans that continues to this day.
All this with the blessing of the Republican party and most ‘conservative’ pundits.
Iraq had nothing to do with flying planes into the Twin Towers.
Bush and the Republicans gave 0bama this on a silver platter.
“Iraq belongs to the Arab League, not to Iran,” said Sheikh Fadhil al-Bidayri, a cleric at the religious seminary in Najaf. “Shiites are a majority in Iraq, but a minority in the world. As long as the Iranian government is controlling the Iraqi government, we don’t have a chance.” …So not even Iraqi Sunnis have their own identity; they think of themselves as a collective, part of an Arabic Sunni Caliphate. And that is always based on terrorism. Even Saddam, as a national-socialist Ba’athist, thought collectively and of course well beyond his own borders; he was no stranger to helping out the “Palestinians” among other terrorists.
I think that history will ultimately show that Bush II was at the point of no return, and flew us over the horizon. That was the time we could still reverse course. And we didn’t.
Trump may buy us time, but the American, and Western, rot seems terminal at this point.
I think as history unfolds the destruction of Iraq and execution of Hussein will go down as one of the most colossal blunders of all time. Not to be outdone Obama repeats blunder in Libya.Such forlorn imbecilic leaders we come up with.