“I do think Bush had no other choice in 2003.”
Yes, he did! Sadam Hussein wan’t the genesis of 911, the Saudis were. But the Booshes had their collective noses up the Saudi Royal Famiy’s a$$es because of their oil interests and possibly because Daddy Boosh didn’t finish the job when he went into Kuwait. Then, to add insult to injury that motherf*cker “W” let the conflict drag on for the entirety of his 8 years as President. Only Obola has managed to pi$$ away more of America’s treasure than “W” Boosh, and “W” Boosh holds the record between the two of them for the most young Americans needlessly killed to keep things cool with Saudi Arabia. Count me as a newly-minted “Never Boosher,” who bought into his bull$hit when he was President. While we’re fixin’ to string up Comey, Brennan, Clapper, et al, we should include W!
Daddy Bush listened to foreign policy realists. And they had enough sense to know it was a fool’s errand to invade Iraq and end up owning it.
The old adage of ‘better the devil that you know than the one that you don’t’ is something the Daddy Bush crowd understood.
Some of them remembered how Jimmy Carter’s bright idea of knocking off Noriega and the Shah turned out
By contrast, Son Bush listened to neocon crackpots who believed that you could easily turn Iraq into a western democracy. Just remove Saddam, give everyone the vote, and voila! Iraq would be just like Kansas. All that “Islam” stuff was irrelevant to those geniuses.