[Alberta's Child]

Don't blame Ahmadinejad for something that should be laid squarely at the feet of this administration. Iran became a far more potent threat to the region AFTER the U.S. invasion of Iraq than it ever was before.

For the life of me, I still can't understand why the U.S. would go out and topple a largely secular Ba'athist government in Iraq and replace it with a Shi'ite government whose relations with Iran would be far more amicable than Saddam Hussein's had been. Heck -- Ahmadinejad couldn't have done any better for Iran if he were sitting in the White House himself.

[Thorin]

>>>>For the life of me, I still can't understand why the U.S. would go out and topple a largely secular Ba'athist government in Iraq and replace it with a Shi'ite government whose relations with Iran would be far more amicable than Saddam Hussein's had been. Heck -- Ahmadinejad couldn't have done any better for Iran if he were sitting in the White House himself.

You are exactly right. We removed the principal counterweight to Iran in the region and installed a government friendly to Iran in Iraq. Iran has been the greatest beneficiary of our invasion of Iraq to date.

[Badeye]

‘Don’t blame Ahmadinejad for something that should be laid squarely at the feet of this administration. Iran became a far more potent threat to the region AFTER the U.S. invasion of Iraq than it ever was before. ‘

This is only viable if you pretend Iran didn’t exist as it does today since 1979.

Iran is the largest financial backer of global terrorism, by miles and miles and miles. Its been that way for well over a decade, and shows no signs of slowing down.

Blaming the administration for Iran’s actions that predate the administration by two full decades is ridiculous in short.