[xzins]

You know what, bb. I have 24+ years in the military. I have TWO combat patches. I have family who between the 2 of them have a combined 13 trips to Iraq, Afghan, Kuwait, and Jordan...launching places for missions or actually in the middle of a hot zone.

And our family has been part of this for every single year since 9/11 and I’m not counting Bosnia/Kosovo, again with radical Islam.

When you’re ready to have your child brought home in a body bag for some politician’s unwillingness to admit the obvious, that we’ve NEVER been able to walk down a street in Iraq or Afghanistan since we launched this fiasco, that we’ve spent too much blood for politician cannon fodder, and that it is going on mindlessly killing our troops for the Saudis, who are the ones who financially backed the 9/11 killers in the first place, then you get with me.

Trump calls it like it is.

Will YOU go to Iraq and walk down ANY street alone, and I’ll let it be in broad daylight?

[sweetiepiezer]

Thank you Sir for your duty.
It is appreciated very much.
Go Trump.

[sweetiepiezer]

Ping to #125.

[bolobaby]

Of course not, dumbass. Obama was sure to lose any chance of peace we were ever going to have there.

Sorry that is hard to figure out.

[beandog]

My son fought in Iraq. He and I both support Bush going to Iraq, then and now.

Both of us can’t stand Trump.

[Dr. Sivana]

Thank you for your service and your family's. Whatever disagreements I have with Trump, they are not mainly in foreign policy. To me, the question of whether Iraq had "weapons of mass destruction" was not primarily relevant.

I didn't want to go in the first time (Kuwait NEVER accepted an offer of alliance, and they weren't any better than Iraq). I did think we had the option to go in after Iraq broke the terms of peace, but it turned into nation-building, and that at best costs money and lives, and is likely to fall apart as soon as you stop spending money and lives. It also had NOTHING to do with 9/11. And don't get me started on Kosovo.

Cruz would not be an interventionist or a nation builder. Neither would Trump. Neither has the stench of Realpolitik that emanates from Rubio and John Ellis Bush (it's in his genes).

[Yaelle]

Excellent post.