Posted on 03/24/2023 10:00:34 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
DALLAS — Twenty years later, veterans are reflecting on their service and remembering fallen comrades. Iraqis are talking about how their country has changed and how it has not. American lawmakers are debating whether to finally repeal the legislation authorizing the invasion.
One person not heard from in recent days: former President George W. Bush.
That is how he wants it. He has no interest in being part of the debate anymore. He did what he did and does not engage in second-guessing, at least not out loud. He knows the questions he would be asked if he spoke out now: Was it worth it? Does he regret it? What would he have done differently? How will history remember it? As far as he is concerned, the world is better off without Saddam Hussein, and he has told advisers he has not changed his mind about that.
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What about Afghanistan? Personally, I think that was a far bigger mistake.
Do Brandon and Hillary second guess their support for the Iraq war?
George W. Bush holds the record for highest and lowest job approval rating in my lifetime. Post-9/11 he got up to around 90% approval, latter half of second term he was hovering in the low-to-mid 20s. Is why, as much as I detested John McCain, I never really blamed him for 2008, Bush made the GOP so toxic that no Republican was going to win that year.
every poll you have ever seen on that war is wrong.
Because the poll almost always asks do you or did you agree with the Iraq war. If I was asked that question in that way, I would have to say no myself. BUT, I was not against the war, I was only against sending in US ground troops, and 100% against nation building afterwards.
But I was 100% FOR killing terrorists and those that support them anywhere in the world after 9-11
Two kinds of people won’t consider second-guessing possible mistakes: psychopaths and idiots.
Bush II could be both, but I think it’s more likely it’s the latter of the two.
Clip, clip.
Not for what he did, but for what he didn't do. He used the awesome abilities of the American people to win amazing victories and refused to fight for and support those victories. Instead, he squandered the victories and allowed incompetent, corrupt and outright evil people to take control and do enormous damage..
Guess what, George.... In spite of all your efforts, the NY Times still doesn’t like you.
True that. The poll does make being for or against the Iraq war sound like a two-option decision, instead of a third option of killing as many people as necessary in that area as it took to teach them to never attack us again.
That's what I hate about how we talk about Afghanistan. We shouldn't talk about it as us not winning. We should declare from the mountaintops the # of people killed in Afghanistan and tell the middle east that even more will die if we're attacked again.
Couldn’t even get Osama Bin Laden. He was in Pockeestan.
Even his love affair with Big Mike can’t help him.
You took my words!
I think it is a little of both, to be honest. Bush II has a Democrat’s heart...he really thinks he knows what’s best for everyone and if we let him have complete control he KNOWS the world would be great!!
He got that superior complex from his idiotic father! I think it’s in their genes! That is one of the reasons I am glad the last of the Bushes was finally NOT on a ballot in Texas!!
Holy crap...him, Cheney, Powell and Condoleeza. We were all scammed.
Acting on the best information available at the time and scamming are two different things.
I’ve read several reports that the real reason we went into Iraq was because Saddam was paying off families of suicide bombers sent to Israel, which at the time was a crisis there.
Hussein was finding terminally ill people, including children, and not only helping to build the suicide bombs, but paying huge ransoms to the surviving members of the families that agreed.
And, noticeably, the overwhelming plague that was underway of suicide bombers there stopped as soon as Saddam was removed, although you rarely hear that story nowadays.
Republicans lost control of Congress in the 2006 election. They cut the DoD’s OCO funding for Iraq necessitating withdrawal of combat troops in 2007 before combat operations were complete. This allowed the growth and ascendency of ISIS and the ensuing chaos. The media is complicit obscuring this in their support of Democrat politicians and Obama’s election.
Iraq today is a peaceful, prosperous nation. The Arab world’s first elected representative republic. Saddam is dead. AIQ is dead and ISIS is dead. I’d say that’s a pretty good result. But it doesn’t fit the MSM’s narrative and hurts the brains of its sycophants.
cheney and bush— both went to yale-
The bushies belonging to a satanic secret society-
where could things go wrong for America?? sarc
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