[rintintin]

From the report: “At the time of this project’s completion in 2018, an emboldened and expansionist Iran appears to be the only victor. Iraq, the traditional regional counterbalance for Iran, is at best emasculated, and at worst has key elements of its government acting as proxies for Iranian interests.“

[stylin19a]

Commissioned in 2013 by General Ray Odierno,

ah....former Pres. Obama's time & people...

[Bogie]

Well yeah, Saudis attack World Trade Center, corrupt media propaganda gets Americans to think Saddam did it, US spends trillions, Shiites take over Iraq, Israel actually is in greater danger, thousands of US soldiers are killed and the Mideast leans toward China and Russia.

What's not to like about that?/s

[Alberta's Child]

If Iran wanted to execute a game plan to establish itself as a major regional power, it couldn’t have done any better than what the U.S. has done over there. Was that Bush administration really filled with a bunch of Iranian agents, or what?

[dsc]

No one has said a thing about the fact that this study was performed by field grade officers.

They were at the war college, so they’re sh*t-hot front-runners, but they were not generals.

Further, they were thriving in the post-Clinton, post-Bush, post-Obama military, and are therefore of suspect character, intelligence, and loyalty to the constitution.

It would take a lot to convince me that this study is anything it should be.

[Vermont Lt]

Way to go Bushie.

[greedo]

“The war in Iraq was right and necessary, and we won it.”  —  @BillKristol

# of twitter followers
@realDonaldTrump	57,920,797
@BurgerKing	1,716,758
@BillKristol	439,997

[marajade]

This falls squarely on Cheney and Bush. And Mary Cheney wants us to stay forever in Syria and Afghanistan. I like Dick Cheney but he and Rumsfeld were wrong. Rice and Powell were right.

[grania]

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.

[BwanaNdege]

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.

[minnesota_bound]

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