10-11-2012, 02:32 PM
mick e wrote:
But you were all for the way the previous administration - led by geniuses like Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld and Paul Bremer - screwed everything into the ground. Be honest.
The aims were correct and laudable. The execution was often faulty, because of mistaken assumptions and the inevitable fog of war. We did liberate tens of millions from Saddam's vicious tyranny, and we stopped him and Quadafi from developing nuclear weapons. I'd like to have seen royalties from Iraq's oil (to pay for our work), and I think leaving Iraq virtually in the hands of Iran is going to be a huge mistake. But that's the current crop of geniuses.
/Mr Lynn