How do you define success?
Because the outcome has not been successful
In fact worse than successful
Beware of praising noble motives that result in decades long quagmires
Colin Powell reportedly told bush if he broke Iraq he owned it
So true
And of course we can blame the democrats and obama for turning the war into a partisan contest that they used to advance their party, not America’s interests. Unforgivable.
But fact is.... Bush advisors should assessed the long term will of the American people to go in and do whatever it took to win and wrapped it up by 2007 to discredit the democrat hyenas
He did not
Final criticism of bush is that he coined the infamous phrase “ islam is a religion of peace”
Not only did he fail to recognize what he was really sending people to fight and die for, he refused in the name of political correctness to even state the enemy’s name
How the HELL did FR turn into a Bush Lied & Bush’s Fault website?
Do you people recall that Obama has been in office for the last 7+ years?
RE: How do you define success?
Because the outcome has not been successful
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we have to remind ourselves that after the surge of 2007 and the Anbar Awakening, ALL of Iraq was taken over by the Iraqi government we supported.
Obama was given a relatively peaceful Iraq in 2008 and things were relatively quiet for 3 years.
Obama decided then to PULL OUT ALL TROOPS against the advise of his generals, the CIA and even his defense secretary.
He UNDERESTIMATED the threat of terrorism and overlooked the stabilizing presence of our troops. Them he goes and makes a deal with Iran.
So, I define success as keeping the status quo between 2008 and 2011.
That success was destroyed by the next administration.