I agree. Bush and his warmongering buddies (Perl, Wolfowitz, etc.) were all in for a war.
How about invading Saudi Arabia instead of Iraq?
It would not have been PC, but I would have bombed the crap out of those mountains where Bin Laden and his pals were hiding and never invaded any of those countries. I also would have banned any more Muslims coming into the US. If I were Empress for a few months, I would ban Islam in the US and deport all Muslims... yeah, I know that can’t happen.
I also would have removed all US troops from Saudi Arabia and any other Muslim country where we had a presence. No US troops should ever fight for any Muslim country. Let the various sects fight each other to the last man standing.
Iraq had nothing to do with 911, and there were never any weapons of mass destruction there. This was all hyped to get the American people to support war. Congress shirked its constitutional duty to declare war and gave the president carte blanche to do whatever he wanted. Thus, we end up with the impossible situation we are in now.
“So what in your arm chair position was the proper response to 911?”
How many of the 19 hijackers were Iraqi?
The federal government, entrusted with national defense, failed on 9-11, failed on Iraq, failed on Afghanistan. They are supposed to be the experts. Why did the Bush admin fight so hard to keep airline pilots unarmed? Why the slow response to the attacks?
As to “armchairs”, the proper way to go to war is to have Congress hold hearings, declare war, and then do it and win. At least, that’s the Constitutional approach. Republicans in Congress said that approach was “anachronistic”.
I like Rush in some ways, but he has been bought and paid for (like Hannity and Ingraham) for a long time. Let’s face it, he could easily pivot to a “President Jeb”.