Bush’s invasion of Iraq was a disaster and a piece of stupidity from the get-go. Haggling over what he meant by doing a photo op under a “mission accomplished” sign, is irrelevant.
No.
Someone in the Bush administration understood that the enemy is Islam. Bush inflicted a grave wound to Islam by setting Iraq free.
Iraq largely squandered that freedom by voting itself an Islamic constitution. That’s on them.
Then Obama betrayed the nascent free country of Iraq.
Obama refused to negotiate a SOFA and so created a power vacuum in Iraq. And if we believe Saad Hariri (former Prime Minister of Lebanon) Obama also funded & armed ISIS.
Obama also betrayed the democratic revolution in neighboring Iran that was inspired by the newly free Iraq. He squandered a priceless opporunity - not because of ineptitude but because he’s working for the other side.
That’s been the pattern of American foreign policy since Vietnam. The Republicans achieve a stable situation, and then - just as in Vietnam - the Democrats betray American allies and turn stable nation-states into shifting quagmires of horror and death.
Bush’s invasion of Iraq was a disaster and a piece of stupidity from the get-go. Haggling over what he meant by doing a photo op under a “mission accomplished” sign, is irrelevant.
Well said.
That fight was lost years ago. It doesn't matter what he meant.
The "Mission Accomplished" banner and photo op was yet another example of the Bush admin's incompetence, carelessness, and detachment.
Bush and his admin knew that we would have forces in Iraq for years to come, and yet the President himself did a photo op with that Mission Accomplished banner.
The Bush presidency was a disaster and he and his admin just didn't care.