Would you agree with me that Iraq is the greatest foreign policy disaster in American history?

Question

And, that by giving Bush blank check after blank check and conducting no oversight of Bush administration activities, the GOP takes full ownership of the foreign policy disasters of the last seven years?

Answer 1

YES AND DESPITE THE HISTORY REVISERS IN THE GOP, HISTORY WILL SEE HIM --HIS WAR AND HIS 10 TRILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT AS THE WORSE THING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED TO THE USA

Answer 2

What about Vietnam?
I don't know how you could legitimately argue that Iraq is worse than Vietnam.
60,000 Americans dead.
What about the neutrality and appeasment before the US entered WW2?
We could have helped out the British, and French, and Polish, and Russians, etc instead of waiting until Hitler had taken over most of Europe.
I think war is an ugly thing, but waiting as long as we did to enter WW2 could have cost tens of millions of lives.
So, to answer your question- Not by a long shot.
Iraq is bad, but not even close to the "greatest foreign policy disaster in American history".

Answer 3

yes Iraq was a complete disaster, I remember bush trying his hardest to find a link between 9/11 and Saddam, we were told there was links to terrorist (far stretch) but america was wanting to exact revenge for 9/11, so in comes stories of weapons programs, that was good enough, even though we now know that didn't pan out, were still justifying it, what is even scarier, is the Democrates are not offering any real solutions....they know we dont belong there but are talking years about pulling out.......one man said " we just marched in there, and we can just march out " I agree, Our government can't even solve its own problems at home, let alone a foriegn countries ill's.

Answer 4

And how about them Republicans ? Agreed. This is the greatest foreign policy blunder in American history.
I can't keep up with what justification we are using today for the invasion and occupaton.
Its more evident this was about plundering the natural resources of a weakly defended country. A lot of well connected wealthy Republicans benefited from Bush's war.

Answer 5

Number one on my list would be Woodrow Wilson's Peace Treaty of Versailles in 1919, which accidentally encompassed the artificial borders of today's Iraq. Already then, many experts warned of the simplistic stupid approach the US took to end all wars with that treaty, which was the reason for Vietnam, WW2, Cold War and countless other conflicts even today, including Iraq.

Answer 6

I agree. Bush promised the American public that this war would take a few weeks, months at the longest.
It's discouraging because we don't see an end, and the president can't even tell us what would constitute a win. The situation in Iraq is horrific and the majority of Americans are fed up with the garbage the administration is getting away with.

Answer 7

I think the wealthy elite played a hand that they couldn't lose. There is a reason why the majority of the ruling elite wanted Bush and why they refuse to impeach him. He is doing their bidding. If Bush/Cheney are successful at global hegemony, the U.S. wealthy elite get very, very rich. If they lose the battle for global hegemoney, they still greatly enriched themselves by looting the U.S. treasury in the process of transferring public wealth into military contractor's profits which then become dividend payments to themselves. If you look up the numbers, the super-rich have never been happier (richer) than they have been over these past 7 years.

Answer 8

No not at all ... The Far Left Wing MoveOn George Soros Ultra Liberal Democrats would have us believe that.

They forget the UN's role in all of this. How do you conduct Foreign Policy with a Genocidal Madman?

I know! We should have sent sent great States-persons like Sean Penn, Rosie O'Donnell, George Clooney and Jimmy Carter over to chat?

Answer 9

The end result will be a stable government in Iraq and normalized relations between our two governments. It's been a tough road thus far, but that is really a pretty desirable goal, so the answer to your question would be no.

Answer 10

It obviously is.

It may be one of the largest foreign policy disasters in the last 50-100 years in the entire world.

Answer 11

Nope, in fact I would totally disagree with you. Much the same thing was said about Ronald Regan as he pushed for "Star Wars"--yet it was the star wars program which bankrupted the soviet union and led to the dissolution of the old soviet empire. The only true foreign policy disaster post-9-11 would have been to not react to Saddam and the Taliban both.