Sunday, July 6, 2014

John McCain on Iraq (Reader's Digest Version)

"The place wouldn't have gone belly-up just as long as we had kept U.S. troops there for a couple hundred years."

7 comments:

Jerry Critter said...

The place probably would not have gone tits up either if we had left Sadam in place.

Les Carpenter said...

Yep Jerry, the region would very likely nor have become the huge shit hole that it did.

Will "take no prisoners" Hart said...

I hate to say it 'cause the guy was one of the top 10 worst war-criminals of the 20th Century, but overall the guy was probably a slight net-plus. a)(and like you just pointed out) He kept a lid on all of the ethnic strife and b) he was a also pretty solid counterbalance to Iran. It seemed to me like we had him pretty much contained and containment isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Jerry Critter said...

Yea, and now it is our shit hole!

BB-Idaho said...

McCain ain't happy unless he gets full utilization of our military assets: watch out Canada!

Will "take no prisoners" Hart said...

Powell and Armitage told Bush, "You break it, you own it." And Brent Scowcroft tried to him, too, in that op-ed piece. Didn't listen.

BB-Idaho said...

IMO, Bush was under the Cheney
spell...some good smart people
tried to get through to him.