Idiot.The Iraq war conflict started 12 years ago 12 YEARS AGO! And we did fine until DumBama pulled our troops out.
Sure Reagan is part of this subject because the subject here is blaming Republicans for everything no matter if they are current, retired or even dead. Blame Republicans first, and you make a comment about me whining?
It just makes me wonder if a couple of these refugees coming here are ISIS and do some damage to a town or city, will that be Bush's fault too?
Did fine? You call that fine? That was an absolute disaster.
But your argument, again, is that things don't develop. Things happen instantly. So if Bush invades a country and makes a petri dish for Islamic Terrorism, but it didn't quite reach the level of ISIS right now, then it's not Bush's fault.
That makes no sense.
No, Reagan has nothing to do with this. You might have a bee in your bonnet, I couldn't give a shit.
It makes you wonder.... seems you should do a little more than just wonder....
Yes, things were fine in Iraq until DumBama pulled everybody out of there. Why do you think every military leader was against it? They knew it would open up the door for groups like ISIS. I'm sure DumBama did too, but he just didn't care. It was about getting reelected.
Can you explain how Bush had anything to do with Syria? Syria wasn't even in the picture during his entire administration. In fact, it was only during DumBama's second term when Syria became an issue. How can you blame Bush for that?
Sure there were things that Bush F'd up, but we can blame him when those F-ups happened. You want to blame him for all of DumBama's F-ups too, and that's my point.
No, things weren't "fine".
Obama pulled the troops about because, oh, wait, BUSH SIGNED THE FUCKING PAPERS.
Sure, the military knew what would happen. Then again the US can't stay in Iraq for ever. The Iraqis didn't want them there. The US people didn't want to be there. So if BUSH knew what would happen, why did he sign the withdrawal?
How did Bush have anything to do with Syria?
Simple, he went into Iraq. He destabilized Iraq. He fermented ISIS and when Syrians tried to oust Assad, ISIS had been fermented enough to be able to walk in. You do know Syria's right next door to Iraq right? It also has VERY close ties to Iraq.
Okay, Bush fucked up. And we'll blame him for those fuck ups. That's EXACTLY what I'm doing.
Your point isn't that I want to blame Bush for Obama's fuck ups. Your point is that anything that happened after 2007 is clearly Obama's fault.
Two SecDefs have said Obama could have renegotiated the agreement to leave troops there. And he was strongly advised by the military to do so.
But the withdrawal was entirely his doing. He bears responsibility for the results. Those results include the rise of ISIS, the worst refugee crisis in Europe since WW2, the upsurge in Islamic terrorist activity, and now the invasion of the US by Syrian muslims.