Trump also says our invasion of Iraq was a colossal blunder. Cost trillions. Set the Mideast on fire. He’s the first and only GOP presidential candidate who was courageous enough to speak this truth. It’s why neocons like Bill Kristo HATE Trump. He spoke the truth about their war
Exactly... who are these neocons on FR pushing revisionist history for Bushwars?
Christian genocide in Iraq and other places, while poppy fields flourishing in Afghanistan is the true legacy of Bushmen.
Bush told President Chirac that going into Iraq was all about “Gog and Magog”, anyway...
This movie sounds like deep state agitprop. Laughable.
“Trump also says our invasion of Iraq was a colossal blunder. Cost trillions. Set the Mideast on fire. ...neocons like Bill Kristol HATE Trump. He spoke the truth about their war.”
While I respect President Trump and await his next success in hoodwinking the opposition, I’m not interested in his opinion on this topic. It’s not supported by the facts.
The region was not some peaceful paradise-on-earth before the Hussein regime was taken out; the regime was a major source of instability there, and there were many good reasons to intervene, but most have been forgotten in the rush to “blame” someone for what’s inexplicably branded a failure.
So we’ll address the chief item then-Secretary of State Powell spoke of to the UN. It was a good one, subsequently confirmed: multiple tons of chemical weapon agents were discovered (as aired on C-SPAN; I guess the MSM was loathe to report it), along with numerous emptied munitions containing residue. Whatever quantities were not found likely went to Syria - because you & like-minded pacifists, struggling to prevent OIF’s kickoff in 2003, gave the regime a gift beyond price: days and days of time to destroy the evidence, or hide it.
Of course it cost trillions. Military endeavor is like that, but paleocons cannot bear to admit it and therefore cling to a pre-1800 interpretation of national defense. Doing so likely comforts them as they wrap self-righteousness around them like a cloak of honor, but the concept simply does not work in the modern world.
The Founders - those still among the living by 1815 - figured all of this out. Why can’t you?