Since all of you Bush Bashers have 20-20 hindsight....?

Question

What would you have done differently in the Winter of 2002-2003 regarding Saddam and Iraq?

Answer 1

I would have just told the truth and said that I'm starting a "war" to get rid of a mass murderer who was a threat to the international community and so that we could get all of the terrorists out into the open so we could kill them all. That's happening right now! Hooray! Good job George! History will vindicate you!

Answer 2

After Bush invaded Afghanistan and he started talking about Iraq, I predicted that he was going to start a war with Iraq that will be a total clusterf*ck. Which is what has happened.

It was evident to me that he was grasping at straws looking for any reason to invade Iraq. When Colin Powell sat in front of the UN, I cringed - it was painfully obvious that he didn't really believe what he was saying about the WMD and was being forced to by Bush and Cheney.

This was not hindsight. Many people were saying from the start that this was a HUGE mistake-in-the-making, including me.

We have been proven correct. Trust me, I'd rather have not been right.

Answer 3

Why don't you Bush supporters just give in to the idea of Liberal superiority? When we Liberals go to bed at night, we can sleep soundly because we did things that made us feel good.

Maybe Saddam acted the way he did because he was sad and afraid. Bush should have invited him to the White House where compassionate people like Jesse Jackson and Jane Fonda could have given him a big hug.

Maybe if we had given him a nice little puppie doggie, Saddam would have changed his ways. Dogs make people nicer.

Yeah, maybe the UN did issue 17 resolutions against Iraq, but that is no reason why the United States had to honor their commitment. Maybe if the UN became irrelevant, people would try harder to make it work. But now Bush kept the promises the UN made, and so we can't have a big fundraiser to help out the UN. I was going to bake "special" brownies and invite my yoga instructor to lead a peace march around the block.

You stupid Conservatives ruin everything! You're such a bunch of buzz killers.

Answer 4

Waited for the UN to say Ok its obvious the needs invading. THEN you have the credibility to invade and you dont have to take the full responsibioity when (or if) it doesn't work out the way the entire WORLD (INCLUDING Bush's dad) TOLD Bush it wouldn't.

All Bush had to do with Iraq was WAIT. All he had to do was focus on Afghanistan and capturing Osama bin Laden and bringing HIM to justice. Build up military forces in Afghanistan, get that country turned around so they have running water and electricity and stuff that SHOWS people why it's cool to be a democratic nation, to show Saddam we are coming in there next. Once we invaded, that's a bell which cannot be unrung. You take as much time to try diplomacy as you need to, and then YOU TRY AGAIN.

Answer 5

Atleast not what Bush has done !!!

Saddam was the ruler of Iraq because America wanted him so, They needed a pet who could make the situation favourible for them to invade and they got saddam for that.......its was a long planning.....which was started by father Bush and ended by the Son Bush...and now American Oil companies are earning the money for stablizing american economy and america is earning the hatred around the world.but ofcourse bush doen't care !

Iraq was a weak nation and it was made even more weaker by saddam on america's will.........he is the culprit but America is even worse than that .who used him like a tissue paper and when they got their Iraq, they wipped him out off the face of earth ! Ofcourse coundn't let him live fearing he might reveal the truth to the world ! The only 'Crime' of Iraq is their 'Oil' !

Answer 6

It's impossible to decide on any course of action when you don't have access to any of the relevant information concerning the region. Unfortunately it's classified, and with the Freedom of Information Act, may not become available for another 50+ years. If it does become available, it's going to be very interesting to see. People will then know the exact reasons why the country entered the war in the first place, not the unsubstantiated claims of the White House.

What more important is the situation as it exists. We have heard claims of redefined strategies that will guarantee success in this conflict. What we have yet to hear is that success may be an impossibility. Any honest assessment of a situation will look at both success and failure as possible outcomes.

We have not completely assessed the situation in the region for all possible outcomes.

Answer 7

Forget that 20-20 hindsight nonsense.

ALL of the problems seen in Iraq were predicted BEFORE the war. That is why a lot of us were against the invation in the first place.

Answer 8

I had foresight as I spoke up while he was running for president that Bush was evil and would lead us down the wrong path. Everyone said I was crazy, smoking pot......gee, guess I was just crazy huh.

We are in Afghanistan for the oil pipe line...that is proven fact and we have government documents backing this fact up.

We are in Iraq for the oil. Not to get it, but to turn it off. Saddam was a close friend of the USA and we supplied him with almost all of his weapons and other items. Heck, we helped him into power even. But Saddam wouldn't go along w/ the big oil companies. They wanted him to raise his price and he wouldn't. He also was selling his oil to his people for rock bottom prices. Well big oil didn't like this and since they control the USA....they wanted a war to go in there, remove Saddam, and to shut off the oil pumps.

This in turn would create a slight shortage on the world market and the oil companies would gain more profits. EXACTLY what has happened since we invaded. Oil companies have hit all time record profits.

Exxon had the highest profit of any company world wide last year.....EVER IN HISTORY.

If you ever want to know the truth....just follow the money....it will always show you the truth.

Plus we are in there causing issues for Arms Sales. After all....most big wigs in oil and our own VP has major stock in Haliburton...a major Arms dealer.

Remember....Arms dealers are like any other biz out there....they want customers. If there are no wars....they have no customers. So like spyware, virus programs....they need to create the problem so they can sell their sollution.

Ever notice those that have Nortons on their computer get hacked, end up with virus's, etc...but those that don't use Nortons never gets infected? If Nortons didn't have viruses to kill....how can they sell their product? So they must create viruses. Same with Arms dealers....they need to create wars to sell their supplies. It's all big money, nothing more. The rest of us are just pawns in the game.

Answer 9

Well, I'm sorry to inform you but the left new in 2002-03 before Bush invaded Iraq that he would fail. It's wasn't 20/20 hindsight, it was foresight. And, there were generals in the Pentagon saying the same thing. We should have never gone into Iraq in the first place, we wouldn't have terrorism in that country like there was none before we went in. And, We should have captured OBL and Al Zarwiri since those were 2 of the people who are ahead of al Queda who did 9/11. Bush failed at that too.

Answer 10

Ironically, if Bush had just been bluffing and not started the war, I think his moves would have been brilliant.

Sadly, blunder after blunder after lie after lie destroyed any chance of us going in there with a real international coallition.

So what would I have done differently? Simple... not have started the war and not have lied about the premise.

We'd be living in a much safer world right now if it were done that way.