Rove is a bushie real bad. The greatest foreign policy blunder in the history of our country was Iraq which had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11. I really don’t think those guys knew the difference between Sunni Wahhabi and Shiite. Anyway it destabilized the Middle East and we now see the full ramifications. No. we didn’t want to stay there and take them to raise. If you want to see the face of a Rino— it is Karl Rove who is nothing more than a liberal republicrat. He should apologize.
[[Anyway it destabilized the Middle East]]
Yes, because the middle east was just so stable before the invasion
[[The greatest foreign policy blunder]]
The families of the 100’s of 1000’s of Iraqis who saddam and sons brutalized and murdered and set on fire and put through meat grinders alive, and hung from meat hooks and skinned alive, and raped and tortured would disagree with you As would the families who survived the wmds used on them and their villages!
Saddam Hussein waged war on Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Israel and the United States. He waged genocidal war against the Kurds and Marsh Arabs.
Saddam funded, trained and harbored terrorists.
Knocking off Saddam caused Qaddafi to give up his nuclear weapons program--that we knew nothing about before.
Instigating, very instigating, or really ignorant.
When I look back and think of Rice saying this is the “birth pangs of the Middle East”....makes my haid stand on end, quite frankly. They (in DC) seem to be following the same playbook, IMHO.
Saddam was convicted of genocide against the Kurds, he killed at a minimum, 20,000 of them and probably a lot more.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/05/world/middleeast/05iraq.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
WE destabilized the Middle East? The mid-east has been roiling for over 1,700 years. To say that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 is to ignore the politics of the region. The first country the US bombed after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor was North Africa.Whatever did North Africa have to do with Pearl Harbor? I think you’re skipping a whole bunch of dots in your analysis. And, the veteran was wrong to ask Karl for an apology.
That’s a good recitation of left-wing talking points, but they are no more credible now than they were the first million times they were used. Iraq was quite stable and would still be stable but for the ridiculous decisions of the Obama administration to just totally abandon it, then sit around and do nothing while ISIS invaded and allow them to become entrenched and do nothing to help to allow others to move in and fill the vacuum as the message is being sent the U.S. cannot be trusted.
You say it destabilized the middle east.
It was stable when bush left.
When bush came into office, Clinton had our navy lobbing missiles into Iraq in order to get the focus off his bent penis.
Obama kicked it into gear with the muslim brotherhood in Egypt, turning Lybia into war lord central, and arming AlQaida.
You are right, 100% right (post #6). Unfortunately, many conservatives confuse Bush the man (very nice guy) with Bush the president (just awful). Those conservatives will pile on you. They refuse to see Bush’s many mistakes.
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Maybe in terms of stirring up the conflicts between Shi'a and Sunni Muslims already going on in the Middle East for many centuries, you may have a point. But in terms of US casualties, the Iraq war pales in comparison to the number of GI's lost in Vietnam and it didn't get us anywhere in the end. After our twenty year involvement, we didn't win. We had to pull out. And we had over 58,000 casualties. Iraq, on the other hand, last only 8 years and cost us just over 3,500 precious lives.
I know you can't compare the two wars as apples and apples, because all conflicts are unique unto themselves. But I believe Vietnam will go down in history as a far bigger blunder in our foreign policy than the Iraq War just based on the numbers of casualties we had versus the final outcome.
No, I'd argue that honor goes to one of your heroes - Johnson, Kennedy, Roosevelt, etc.
What quote do you have that Bush says Iraq was responsible for 9/11?
You’re full of shit.