“Bush has done a great job and even Iraqis knows it. Read Ali’s post #9. I have an Iraqi friends here in Montréal, he is so proud of what happened in Iraq, he wants to go back and live there and he is so grateful of Bush effort in Iraq.”

Of course normal Iraqi’s are grateful that Bush invaded but he most certainly has not done a great job with it!

Insurgency 101: Make deals and bribes to get local tribal leaders fighting on your side to fight and sharing intelligence by what ever means necessary. That only took about 5 years because the Bush policy was just to let the local factions kill each other off which only increased ciaos and violence to the brink of civil war.

Troop Surge: Why the hell does Bush get credit for this? So many in Washington including a lot of Democrats were calling for more troops from the very beginning but Bush time after time defended the troop levels as sufficient. Again, 5 years late.

Operation Anaconda: The Army wanted to implement a plan that sealed off the one pass from Tora Bora into Pakistan to keep Bin Laden trapped, but that was rejected. He walked away the only way he could even though we knew exactly where he was. Huge Failure.

The end conclusion will be victory despite consistently poor execution and decision making by the Bush administration.

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“For sure, Obama has made some solid and reassuring appointments, such as his Treasury team. But did anyone really believe that a radical president would appoint obvious radicals to key roles in his administration? But if not, the one thing Obama is not going to do is torpedo his presidency at the very start by displaying a radical bent. The name of the game must be not to frighten the horses. His centrist appointments are a smokescreen; they co-opt the moderate center, but he’s still the commander in chief. Obama plays basketball. I’m not much of an athlete, barely know the game, but one thing I do know is that you have to be able to look like you’re doing one thing but do another. That’s why all these conservative appointments are important: the strategy is feint to the right, move left.” (Melanie Phillips)

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From Melanie Phillips:

“There are other unsettling indications that Obama may already be running a shadow foreign policy. Robert Malley, one of Clinton’s Oslo negotiators, is one of America’s most outspoken apologists for Palestinian terrorism against Israel and claims that Syrian, Lebanese and Iranian attacks against Israel are all Israel’s fault. The Obama campaign distanced itself from Malley last May after the Times reported that he was meeting regularly with Hamas leaders. But a few days after Obama’s election, Malley travelled to Syria, ostensibly under the aegis of the appeasement-minded International Crisis Group. Yet one of his aides told FrontPage Magazine that acting on Obama’s instructions, Malley traveled to Cairo and Damascus to tell Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Syria’s President Assad that ‘the Obama administration would take into greater account Egyptian and Syrian interests.’ And as Caroline Glick reported, Hamas terror operative Ahmad Youssef told the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper that in the months leading up to his election, Obama’s advisers held steady contacts with the leaders of the terror group in Gaza, and had asked that Hamas keep the meetings secret in order not to harm Obama’s chances of being elected.”
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3039656/carpe-diem-or-can-we-all-relax-now.thtml

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“… but to say they were the main agenda for the Bush administration is debatable to an unbiased analytical” (Mark)

Gnagnagna, will get you nowhere. Bush has done a great job and even Iraqis knows it. Read Ali’s post #9. I have an Iraqi friends here in Montréal, he is so proud of what happened in Iraq, he wants to go back and live there and he is so grateful of Bush effort in Iraq.

I suggest you read a bit on the matter. A good book for you would be: “Ce que veut Bush”, by Guy Millière written in May 2003. The whole scenario that Curt wrote in this article is all explain in that 2003 book.

The English version is : “What Bush wants”

“Guy Millière has come out with a fine piece of work with his latest book ‘ Ce que veut Bush: la recomposition du monde”. (‘What Bush Wants : the remodeling of the world’). Operating outside the framework of the French party line and the hysterical mass market press, Millière explains simply and clearly to the French what the United States is doing post 9-11.

If you take the time to read this 2003 book, you will never again come with the ignorant statement that I have copied and pasted up here from your post #10.

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This may express our best intentions for a concussion but doesn’t cover or unveil the full pretenses of why we took up arms. Freedom and liberty are the noblest of struggles but to say they were the main agenda for the Bush administration is debatable to an unbiased analytical. Unfortunately this speeches dialog reflects an attempt to put a silver lining on a terribly miscalculated and mismanaged war. Bush failed there and that is the most regrettable truth that history won’t be so soon to forget.

Bottom line, the execution sucked and that’s always what matters most in the real time of events even though the end concussion will be victory.

The Bush administration time and again has consistently shown poor decisions and execution, been slow to make adjustments, and our country and troops have suffered dearly for it.

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Excellent article Curt.

As an Iraqi, I am proud at how my home country has become with the help of our American brothers.

Iraq will remain a democracy – as we DON’T want to go back to dictatorships and we WILL remain one, if not the most, trusted American ally in the middle east simply because no other country in the region has had the blood of thousands of American soldiers spilled for the sake of democracy.

They will not be lost in vain as with the other thousands of Iraqis who died because of terror.

Thank you George Bush – in time you will be remembered as the hero.
Long live the USA and Iraq.

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I wasn’t saying the intel about him have vast stockpiles of WMDs was correct. I do believe he would have posed a threat to us and to our allies in the region first chance he got. Look at our problems with Iran. Their army is a joke too. However, do you think they aren’t a threat to us and our allies?
Remember blast, saddam had a successful nuke program in place once before. He would have done it again if he could.
We will have to agree to disagree on this one.

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Saddam was not a imminent threat and was around from the time Reagan was President. Saddam was a paper tiger, his Army was soundly routed in the Operation Desert Storm and collapsed completely in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

he was going to start his WMD programs back up as soon as he could.

His connections with terrorists and WMDs would have been ugly

He coulda, woulda, shoulda. I am sorry HR, but even Bush now says WMD’s was wrong intel. If we invaded every country who posed some coulda, woulda, shoulda we would be invading North Korea who does have a nuke and the potential to fire missiles at the west coast of the USA.

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The world was a different place when Reagan was in charge.
As for saddam, he was going to start his WMD programs back up as soon as he could. His connections with terrorists and WMDs would have been ugly. Not to mention he had multiple agents in this country which supports Putin’s claim that saddam was planning terrorist strikes against us. Let’s not forget, saddam was not the kind to turn the other cheek.

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