Wolfowitz says US botched Iraq war

[JimH52]

Wolfowitz Says U.S. Botched Iraq War - The Daily Beast

REALLY!!!!?????

 

[rightwinger]

There has been a good deal of comment — some of it quite outlandish — about what our postwar requirements might be in Iraq. Some of the higher end predictions we have been hearing recently, such as the notion that it will take several hundred thousand U.S. troops to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq, are wildly off the mark. It is hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and to secure the surrender of Saddam's security forces and his army — hard to imagine. Paul Wolfowitz House Budget Committee testimony on Iraq (February 27, 2003)

 

[rightwinger]

There's a lot of money to pay for this. It doesn't have to be U.S. taxpayer money. We are dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon.
Paul Wolfowitz Congressional Testimony, March 27, 2003

 

[KevinWestern]

Wolfowitz Says U.S. Botched Iraq War - The Daily Beast

REALLY!!!!?????

Paul Wolfowitz's opinion is about as valuable as a 5 day old piece of shit.

Any man or woman who supported the idea of a Trillion dollar war to overthrow Saddam, despite the fact that Iraq had no connection to 9/11, and posed no threat to the United States, should be deported to an island and never heard from again.

They're (1) either amazingly thick and worthless or (2) in league with all of the private companies who stand to gain profits from the stench of death.

The only time our troops should be put in harms way (in such a major initiative) is when there's at least a tangible threat to our country - right?

.

 

[ArmyCowboy]

In other breaking news, water is wet and ice is cold.

 

[g5000]

My biggest problem with the war in Iraq is not the WMDs. Not at all. My biggest problem with the war is with the way it was prosecuted. It was amateur hour on Bush's part. Demobilizing the Iraqi Army is going to go down as the biggest military blunder in American history.

Bush's pipe dream that Iraq was going to be instantly transformed into a Libertarian paradise is borderline insane. The man was just plain stupid.

 

[ArmyCowboy]

My biggest problem with the war in Iraq is not the WMDs. Not at all. My biggest problem with the war is with the way it was prosecuted. It was amateur hour on Bush's part. Demobilizing the Iraqi Army is going to go down as the biggest military blunder in American history.

Bush's pipe dream that Iraq was going to be instantly transformed into a Libertarian paradise is borderline insane. The man was just plain stupid.

The biggest problem with the whole Iraq debacle is that they only had one plan and that was based on best case scenerio, ie. the US would be hailed at liberators.

Once this didn't happen and the insurgency arose, their was no contigency plan and we had to make up on the fly.

 

[JimH52]

The Baggers and Deficit Hawks all conveniently forget W's total screw up.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

Yup, W totally screwed over the US tax payer. What a snow job!

 

[KevinWestern]

The Baggers and Deficit Hawks all conveniently forget W's total screw up.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

Yup, W totally screwed over the US tax payer. What a snow job!

However, we can't forget that the decision to go to war was voted on by both Democrats and Republicans. I agree that the POTUS at the time was to blame for a lot of the "convincing", but these are highly intelligent people that can think for themselves.

Not sure how one justifies an all out Iraq invasion despite the fact Iraq had no connection to 9/11 whatsoever. There were people who voted against the war, but not enough.

 

[Mad Scientist]

Do you guys suffer from selective reading or something?

Wolfowitz, a former World Bank Chairman, CFR Member and Tri-Lateral Commission Member as well as a Bilderberg Attendee (Which you probably don't even know exists) said the "The War was a good idea".

Whose Idea was it? Who mentioned the idea to Invade Iraq to Bush first?

Paul Wolfowitz.

Neither Bush NOR Obama is the problem.

 

[Russ Alllah Gehry]

My biggest problem with the war in Iraq is not the WMDs. Not at all. My biggest problem with the war is with the way it was prosecuted. It was amateur hour on Bush's part. Demobilizing the Iraqi Army is going to go down as the biggest military blunder in American history.

Bush's pipe dream that Iraq was going to be instantly transformed into a Libertarian paradise is borderline insane. The man was just plain stupid.

The biggest problem with the whole Iraq debacle is that they only had one plan and that was based on best case scenerio, ie. the US would be hailed at liberators.

Once this didn't happen and the insurgency arose, their was no contigency plan and we had to make up on the fly.

seriously good reading

thank you

 

[SobieskiSavedEurope]

Wolfoshitz.
That smelly wolf dookie.

 

[Muhammed]

Monday morning quarterbacks are hilarious.

 

[Kondor3]

Wolfowitz Says U.S. Botched Iraq War - The Daily Beast

REALLY!!!!?????

Wolfowitz is wrong.

We did not botch the war.

We botched the peace.

Which is a much more serious matter.

 

[whitehall]

Actually Wollfie doesn't allege that we botched the war. The U.S. Military went further, faster and took less casualties than any other military adventure of it's type. What happened was that we botched the peace and you can blame that one on politicians.

 

[whitehall]

The subject rates a thread in the history forum or the military forum but it seems that the left once again sees American military victory through a prism of hatred simply because Iraq was the only war in a hundred years during a republican administration. The left hates it so much that i'm sure there were actors like Johnny Depp who were advocating the murder of President Bush. If you look at rationally we botched the peace in every war in the bloody 20th century. Wilson's war put such harsh terms on the Germans that Hitler and the Nazis rose to power and violated every clause in the surrender agreement and there was nothing the Allies could do or were willing to do. We had to do it all over again in a quarter century and once again the WW2 peace was botched enough to create the Iron Curtain. Don't get me started on Truman's war.Thanks to the incredible bungling of Truman and MacArthur we turned victory in a year into a three year quagmire and the loss of 50,000 American lives and we are living with the N.K. legacy today. LBJ set the rules so that we could win every battle in Vietnam and still lose the freaking war. Bill Clinton killed an estimated 5,000 civilians in a bombing campaign in freaking Yugoslavia when he was literally caught with his pants down and 9-11 terrorists were attending flight school in Florida.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Wolfowiitz, that guys opinion sure means a lot.

 

[ClosedCaption]

Monday morning quarterbacks are hilarious.

Yeah, it's not like people ever objected to it and we're called Terrorist Sympathizers for saying it was a bad idea.

There were NEVER any protests or words of disagreement. #AlternativeFacts

 

[Muhammed]

Monday morning quarterbacks are hilarious.

Yeah, it's not like people ever objected to it and we're called Terrorist Sympathizers for saying it was a bad idea.

There were NEVER any protests or words of disagreement. #AlternativeFacts

In other words, you think Hussein and AQ should have been handed a monopoly.

 

[ClosedCaption]

Monday morning quarterbacks are hilarious.

Yeah, it's not like people ever objected to it and we're called Terrorist Sympathizers for saying it was a bad idea.

There were NEVER any protests or words of disagreement. #AlternativeFacts

In other words, you think Hussein and AQ should have been handed a monopoly.

Here's the thing with you. The war has cost thousands of lives, trillions of dollars and countless years. But you, thinking of the big picture, instead seem to only take umbridge with those who said the bad idea was a bad idea. The idea was still bad but the fact that people told you seems to ruffle your feathers.

Boo fucking Hoo