From USA Today:
"Do they want to bring back Saddam Hussein, these critics?" the elder Bush told USA TODAY in a rare interview. "Do they want to go back to the status quo ante? I don't know what they are talking about here. Do they think life would be better in the Middle East if Saddam were still there?"
Well, then why didn't Bush 41 take Saddam out during the first Gulf war and save his son the trouble? Or perhaps the proud father has done some rethinking, since things have gone so well in Iraq under Bush 43.
We can't poll the opinions of the dead in Iraq, but we could ask their families and friends. We could ask the wounded and their families. We could ask the 1 to 2 million refugees inside and outside of Iraq what they think. After all, it is their country.
Thanks to Lapin, who keeps me supplied with material.
Oh that old canard... We allegedly went in for WMD.
ReplyDeleteOh- then we took out Saddam. And BushCo played the American public and played them well... So many jumped on the bad Saddam bandwagon.
He was a despot- but what we have wrought there can never, ever be undone.
But Saddam was despot at the time of the first Gulf war. Oh, but I forgot. These folks don't have to make sense.
ReplyDeleteYou're right--they don't make sense. That's a polite way to describe them.
ReplyDeleteA missed opportunity the first time round when the international community were as one. Now we are two pariah nations and rightly so!
ReplyDeleteIraqis would have been better off if our glorious leaders had bothered to give some thought to the post war Iraq, but that seems to have slipped their minds.
D.P.
The dead Iraqis far outnumber the American dead, yet we hear little about them. They aren't newsworthy.
ReplyDeleteThe dead Iraqis will haunt us for generations to come. The open wound that the country of Iraq is today will shame us far into the future.
ReplyDeleteWe will reap what we have sowed.