THIS Is Just Another Reason Why George H.W. Bush, Margaret Thatcher, François Mitterrand and Others Were CORRECT in Using Force Against Iraq in 1991

@grayhalo

Agreed.

He listened to the same people that screwed up the first war:

Dick Cheney and Colin Powell.

Plus, throw in Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Bremer and they really made a mess of it.

The PNAC cabal needs to be eliminated.

Also, I wish they would have finished taking care of business in Afghanistan first before opening up another front.

@grayhalo

Rummy wanted to do that war on the cheap, too.

@beckyromero War is never cheap. Especially when you try and get by half assing things. Then some idiot had the bright idea of disbanding the Iraqi military. Which at the very least made a whole bunch of guys with training unemployed, when they could have been used to help secure the country or at least secure the borders.

@grayhalo
Paul Bremer. Yes, a real dumbass.

Sort of the "father" of ISIS in a unintentional, twisted sort of way.

He left a million armed men UNEMPLOYED.

@beckyromero I literally had a former Iraqi officer pretty much ask me, what were we thinking?

"I know! We will disband the military to ensure that they'll form their own militias and insurgent groups."

@daisymay Then someone forgot that these guys might still have access to all their old equipment.

@grayhalo "forgot"

I think you're being generous. In my opinion, this was all designed to create a long-lasting destabilization of the entire region as a way for the US to always be able to go back to wars for oil without it looking like it's for oil.

@daisymay

I think YOU are being far too generous in thinking Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et all could be that creative in their thinking.

😂

@daisymay I was being sarcastic. lol

@beckyromero That's just what they want you to think 😏

@beckyromero If they were at all creative things might have been moped up quicker.