Posted on 08/13/2015 10:39:27 AM PDT by WilliamIII
WASHINGTON — Businessman Donald Trump said Iran is as powerful as it is today because President George W. Bush's war on Iraq took out its main adversary.
Trump, speaking on the Fox News Channel "Hannity," said he opposed Bush's decision to go to war against Iraq based on claims that the country had weapons of mass destruction. The weapons were never found, and Bush's brother and fellow GOP presidential candidate, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, said in May that "knowing what we know now I would not have engaged—I would not have gone into Iraq."
Trump said that he warned before the 2003 invasion that the move would destabilize the Middle East.
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Libya and probably Syria soon also. /sarc
He is as stupid as Trump. Hussein had Any Nidal sitting in Baghdad running terrorist attacks against Americans while Hussein was paying bounty for American scalps. The ignorance here at times rivals Huffpost.
I seriously thought that by late 06 we had Iran in the worst of all positions, boxed in on two sides. ZEro let it all go to hell.
That’s why I’m a fan because he maybe a horses behind but he’s definitely not a small cat.
>>”Case in point: The Iranian Student Uprising early in Obama’s first term. What did Obama do? Turned his eyes away and let Iran do what it wanted killing hundreds/thousands.”<<
The so-called ‘uprising’ in 2009 in Iran (which I incidentally supported at the beginning) was not essentially home-grown. Although, it did also involve various (non-Islamic) Iranian political groups.
ESSENTIALLY, the “Green Revolution” (2009) was a (violent) dispute between supporters of Ahmadi-Nejad and the reformist faction of the same Islamic Republic Regime - the former supported by ‘foreign elements’, and partly financed by self-serving, wealthy, and very corrupt individuals such as mullah Rafsanjani.
One can argue that Obama could’ve supported the ‘moderate/reformists Islamists” of the same Mullahs’ regime; OR put his weight behind those non-Islamic, secular groups.
All in all, it would not have worked because the Mullahs’ Regime is FIRMLY in charge in Iran, will kill as many UNARMED people (as they are and were), and is very much UNlike the Shah’s era.
>>”What was Obama’s response to the “arab spring?” He completely mis-characterized it and repeatedly failed to see it for what it truly was.”<<
Way I understood it, it was about Democracy and equal rights between shi’ites and sunnis in Arab countries. Another failure and ill-conceived plan. This ‘uprising’ was also instigated by outsiders.
Both the “Arab Spring” and the 2009 Green Revolution in Iran remind me of what Jimmy Carter did in Iran back in 1978-79.
Major difference, for Iran at least, being that times have changed.
Iranian Mullahs’ regime will quash any internal uprising in the most brutal way and with impunity, whereas the Shah chose to leave Iran in 1979 to avoid further bloodshed. And to stop Islamists & Communists (supported by Jimmy Carter et al, under the banner of “Democracy”) from terrorism inside Iran.
In hindsight the Shah should’ve stayed and killed the mentioned bast*rds; then again, the Shah would have been accused of being an Assad or a Saddam.....
Correction: “the former supported by ‘foreign elements’” = I meant the latter i.e. the Reformist faction.
Trump is dangerously ignorant of ME politics. Democrats beat up Bush day and night over Iraq and Afghanistan. If they had a patriotic bone in their bodies we’d have wrapped things up and held 12 bases in Iraq.
No, taking an American embassy personnel hostage put them in the ME driver’s seat. Not the Iraq war. Saddam was the kingpin and financial supporter of terrorists everywhere - the hub.. If any of them needed funding - Saddam was their man. Why he even paid the Palestinian mothers that $50,000 for each child she gave up for suicide bombing.
Trump is an ass. He is still spouting that we went into Iraq on bad intelligence. Even the N.Y. slimes said themed were moved.
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