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The US Army says Iran is the only victor of the Iraq War
Quartz ^ | Jan 22 2019 | Tim Fernholz

Posted on 01/31/2019 8:20:27 PM PST by rintintin

The US Army has concluded that Iran was the only victor of the eight-year US campaign to remove Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and replace him with a democratic regime.

That’s one of the findings of a massive historical study released Jan. 17, the first major military review of the Iraq war’s lessons. Commissioned in 2013 by General Ray Odierno, then the Army’s top commander, it was conducted by half a dozen field grade officers at the US Army War College.

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To: marajade

Most of them would likely be NeverTrumpers. Bill is their leader.


101 posted on 02/01/2019 3:16:28 AM PST by greedo
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To: greedo

They weren’t willing to buy his magazine though were they. LOL


102 posted on 02/01/2019 3:24:17 AM PST by marajade (Skywalker)
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To: rintintin

A wiser policy (most wise would’ve been George the Stupid not being conned into regime-changing Iraq) would’ve been to support a free Kurdish nation cut from the northern third of Iraq. If that new nation had stayed within its borders, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon would’ve been allies.


103 posted on 02/01/2019 3:30:09 AM PST by grania ("We're all just pawns in their game")
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To: allendale
I don't think Ron Paul was ignored. I thought that at times he ran has presidential campaign not to win, but to make a point. What a shame. He and others who go third party should know by now that nothing sways the Deep State Illuminati from their goals.

I wish Rand Paul hadn't messed up his campaign for President. Instead of expressing negatives toward President Trump, he should've been a ally. I just hope now (President Trump sounds like he's taking charge of the mess he created by not standing up to Chuck, Nancy, and the Masters of War) that Rand Paul has his ear.

104 posted on 02/01/2019 3:35:07 AM PST by grania ("We're all just pawns in their game")
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To: rintintin

> And that’s all on Bush, worst GOP president in history <

Right. Blaming Obama for Iraq would be like blaming Nixon for Vietnam. Vietnam is all on LBJ. Iraq is all on Bush.


105 posted on 02/01/2019 4:09:46 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: rintintin

Think about Saddam with nuclear weapons.

Think seriously about Saddam with nuclear weapons, or even his using his chemical weapons outside of Iraq.

The option to war with Iraq would have been an assassination of Saddam. World leaders definitely don’t want to open THAT Pandora’s box.


106 posted on 02/01/2019 4:38:26 AM PST by BwanaNdege
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To: greedo

What was the cause of his intense confusion?


107 posted on 02/01/2019 5:25:23 AM PST by Bogie
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To: Bogie

Trump won the election, which means that his condemnation of the Iraq invasion resonated with voters. It must have been a shock to Kristol.


108 posted on 02/01/2019 5:41:58 AM PST by greedo
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To: BwanaNdege

If Saddam had WMDs he would have used them to defend his regime and himself. How ridiculous to say Saddam had a dangerous weapon when he didn’t deploy that weapon when it meant life or death for him. If he didn’t use the supposed WMDs to save his own life, they either didn’t exist - which even Bush and Cheney finally admitted - or they were no threat in the first place. Bush eventually changed his justification for invading , to “Operation Iraqi freedom”, bring “freedom” to Iraqis. In other words, trillions of dollars forregime change - which freed jihadis to go on rampages throughout Iraq and the Middle East


109 posted on 02/01/2019 7:44:28 AM PST by rintintin (q)
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To: Fedora

The State Department implemented Bush’s policies.


110 posted on 02/01/2019 8:54:01 AM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Jumper

An occasional paragraph break would have been nice.


111 posted on 02/01/2019 9:01:33 AM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: sparklite2

Powell and Bush were rarely on the same page.


112 posted on 02/01/2019 11:26:27 AM PST by Fedora
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To: rintintin

A few 500lb bombs on Iran leaders would decide the real winner.


113 posted on 02/01/2019 2:58:20 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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