Cry me a river Poppy
I saw on the news that Poppy Bush was complaining about folks being "grossly unfair" to his kid because of the Iraq War.
Sorry Poppy, you don't get to whine about people unfairly criticizing your son after he and Rumsfeld wasted so many American lives through poor planning, ignorance, stubbornness and laziness.
"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Critics of President George W. Bush's handling of the Iraq war are "grossly unfair" and have forgotten the brutality of deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, Bush's father said in an interview published on Friday.
....Public opinion polls show most Americans oppose Bush's Iraq war strategy and his overall job performance rating has dropped to record lows.[..]"
Poppy asks--"Do they think life would be better in the Middle East if Saddam were still there?"
Let's see...4 or 5 million Iraqis lost their homes ...hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis lost their lives ...the education of millions of children stunted ...Iraq's infrastructure almost totally destroyed ...tens of thousands of jihadists created........
The answer is YES.
I'd say it's a toss up comparing the number of people who died in Iraq as a result of our invasion, against those who died during Saddam's reign as cruel dictator.
The real question should be whether or not the actions of Bush Jr. have harmed or killed more people than they've helped.
Life in the United States would definitely be better for almost 4,000 dead Americans and their families and friends, and for almost 30,000 wounded and maimed Americans and their families and friends.
Life would sure be better here in the US if we were not stuck in this money draining, terrorist creating WAR. Our country is bleeding badly.
I've read that the Israelis think the Middle East would be better off with Saddam back in Iraq ...also the Saudis, the Kuwaitis, UAE, and just about everybody in the neighborhood except Iran.
Not to mention the majority of the Iraqi population ...well, those who haven't died yet.
Maybe Poppy should read what Dick Cheney said about Desert Storm--"And the question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many. So I think we got it right, both when we decided to expel him from Kuwait, but also when the president made the decision that we'd achieved our objectives and we were not going to go get bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq.... Once we had rounded him up and gotten rid of his government, then the question is what do you put in its place? You know, you then have accepted the responsibility for governing Iraq."
Maybe Poppy should read what Poppy wrote:
From the 1998 book, "A World Transformed", which Poppy co-wrote--"Trying to eliminate Saddam, extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have violated our guideline about not changing objectives in midstream, engaging in "mission creep," and would have incurred incalculable human and political costs....[..]"
Poppy's conscience is finally catching up with him is all ...but there are thousands of fathers and mothers crying harder over their dead and wounded sons and daughters.
I don't want Saddam back. I just want George W. Bush to go away ...everything he touches turns to shit or catches fire.
I want a decent president back, a president who would take us to war only as a last resort, who would ask Congress before he did, who can execute a war successfully if he has to, and not let private business corporations run a war for its own personal gain.
Yeah...that would be nice.
