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Absolutely not. Trump would have made a terrible mess, even worse than W. did. My point is more than the US can recover from this, recovery from Iraq was and i
by FriedrichN 6y ago
Absolutely not. Trump would have made a terrible mess, even worse than W. did.
My point is more than the US can recover from this, recovery from Iraq was and is much harder. The dead will never come back to life and the region seems to be permanently unstable. My comparison was between a potential criminal who could have committed great crimes to one who actually did.
- simonh 6y agoI'm not saying you're wrong, but it was a tough situation. The US was out for blood after 9/11, and there were no good answers to the question of what to do about Saddam (I know, they were two different issues). That doesn't excuse screwing it up, in some ways that were absolutely avoidable. I think it was more a competency issue than a malice issue though. Competency with Bush, malice and competency with Rumsfeld.