Iraq: A Convenient Scapegoat

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National Review:

Bring up Iraq — and expect to end up in an argument. Conservatives are no different from liberals in rehashing the unpopular war, which has become a sort of whipping boy for all our subsequent problems.

Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan recently enumerated countless pathologies that followed Iraq. Yet to examine her list is to learn just how misinformed we have become in our anguish over the intervention.

Noonan writes of Republicans: “It [iraq] ruined the party’s hard-earned reputation for foreign-affairs probity. They started a war and didn’t win it.”

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We can argue over whether the result of the war was worth the cost. But by January 2009, the enemy was defeated. There was a consensual government in Iraq, there were few monthly American casualties, and there was a plan to leave a small constabulary force to ensure stability and the sanctity of Iraqi borders and airspace.

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National Review:

 

Yet to examine her list is to learn just how misinformed we have become in our anguish over the intervention.

 

 

Examples From Townhall Comments

 

MIke3094 Wrote: 3 minutes ago (8:23 AM)

Bush 43 was a Democrat dressed up to look like a Republican. We had an expansion of government especially after 9/11. We had nation building, a liberal idea, in Iraq and Afghanistan. Helped along by the Republican Congress the expansion of Presidential powers. The statements on why he would sign a law and then not follow it. His plan for amnesty for illegal aliens. Reagan made that mistake, yet we don't learn from it. It wasn't Iraq that damaged the Republican party, but Republicans acting like Democrats.

 

 

Dr_Zinj Wrote: 21 minutes ago (8:05 AM)

Idiots.

Iraq wasn't our enemy. They weren't attacking, they weren't supporting our attackers, and they weren't planning on attacking us. The Second Gulf War, G.W. Bush's War, was a crime, an unnecessary conflict, a "I'm going to finish the guy that Daddy didn't eliminate" curfluffle. We did an excreble job of nation building there, we're completely incompetent in empire building, and we're blithering idiots when in comes to looting and pillaging.

Are Iraqi's better off now than before? Why don't you ask the 100,000 plus that died as a result of our "police action"?

 

 

 

 

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The problem with Iraq is the Bush administration did a horrible job of selling it, and countering the Leftest/Democrat Meme!

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We see these numbskulls defending their idiocy at every turn (and the press as well). The Bush administration did not defend itself or correct any misinformation (silence is usually taken as ascent). That continues to this day as far as GWB. Some of his surrogates have defended the administration, but not enough. The only one on a consistent basis has been Cheney, even though he was ill.

[Valin]

We see these numbskulls defending their idiocy at every turn (and the press as well). The Bush administration did not defend itself or correct any misinformation (silence is usually taken as ascent). That continues to this day as far as GWB. Some of his surrogates have defended the administration, but not enough. The only one on a consistent basis has been Cheney, even though he was ill.

 

The problem is someone wpuld come out and defend it, then a couple of weeks someone else would come out...and so on. Meanwhile the opponents and the media (but I repeat myself) day in day out were attacking.