Yes, He fought the war on terror, but even the war on terror was rather half-assed. He should have surged long ago for one thing. And to be honest, our troops endured incompetent tactics for YEARS. Endless convoys down unsecure roads, certain to be attacked, yet no effort to secure those supply lines.
And though fave liberal cause, Armored HMMV’s to better protect from IEDs? Well, I thought one day,, how we built the entire WWII military in 3.5 years. So why it take almost 4 years to pump out enough Armored vehicles?
Next he willfully allowed numerous outrages to happen to our troops. They were investigated by the FBI and prosecuted for *normal infantry actions* occuring in *battles and firefights*. This is utterly sickening.
Its not even in doubt that Iran was killing out boys with the IEDs, and even with direct actions. He never put Iran on notice and bombed them at the next offense.
Worst of all was his failure to fight the war of opinion in any way at all. He simply gave that theater of operations to the enemy and their democrat allies.
I think hes a nice man still. But you’d have to be blind to not see that he was incompetent through the war, and is a new world order guy in finances. He destroyed the idea of conservatism so bad, that we wound up with Obama.
You’ve touched on a number of problems I see with him.
That part about Iran is critical. We allowed Iran to train and supply. Iran’s military capabilities should have been bombed back to the stone age on that alone.
Look, I think there’s some gray area with regard to the vehicles. He was stuck with them, and short of putting in tanks there wasn’t going to be anything else for a while. To my way of thinking, this was evidence of a failure in long range planning. What hurt us most took place before Bush came into office. We didn’t have the vehicle we needed for that war. Why the hell not?
What did we expect to happen on the field of battle, with our guys driving around in exotic jeeps. Duh! And who couldn’t have figured that out in the late 80s or early 90s?
IMO< the Iran pipeline cost us the most troops. Without that support, the terrorism would have waned early on.
Bingo!