"The bottom line is: Our allies can't trust us, our enemies don't fear us- and you can't blame that on Bush" - Lt Col. Ralph Peters
Actually, one thing Lt Col. Peters ignores which pierced that facade of being an invincible superpower that the U.S. had until sometime in the last decade was being unable to conclusively and convincingly fight two wars (or if you prefer one war on two fronts) in Afghanistan and Iraq.
So if you can't "blame Bush" for setting up the above situation I suppose President Obama used time travel and mind control to cause President Bush to set up the foreign policy situation he had to deal with after his predecessor left office? rrrrriiiiiight.
If Afghanistan was the focus until Bin Laden was killed in Afghanistan then people would be thinking don't fuck with U.S. civilians you'll get yourself dead quick. It was a possibility according to the story linked below.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/elite-officer-recalls-bin-laden-hunt/2/
Delta developed an audacious plan to come at bin Laden from the one direction he would never expect.
"We want to come in on the back door," Fury explains. "The original plan that we sent up through our higher headquarters, Delta Force wants to come in over the mountain with oxygen, coming from the Pakistan side, over the mountains and come in and get a drop on bin Laden from behind."
But they didn't take that route, because Fury says they didn't get approval from a higher level. "Whether that was Central Command all the way up to the president of the United States, I'm not sure," he says.
The next option that Delta wanted to employ was to drop hundreds of landmines in the mountain passes that led to Pakistan, which was bin Laden's escape route.
"First guy blows his leg off, everybody else stops. That allows aircraft overhead to find them. They see all these heat sources out there. Okay, there a big large group of Al Qaeda moving south. They can engage that," Fury explains.
But they didn't do that either, because Fury says that plan was also disapproved. He says he has "no idea" why.
"How often does Delta come up with a tactical plan that's disapproved by higher headquarters?" Pelley asks.
"In my experience, in my five years at Delta, never before," Fury says.
The military wouldn't tell 60 Minutes who rejected the plans or why. Fury wasn't happy about it but he pressed on with the only option he had left, a frontal assault on bin Laden's dug-in al Qaeda fighters. The Delta team had only about 50 men. So the mission would depend on the Afghan militia as guides and muscle.
If Iraq was left alone until after Bin Laden was taken care of in Afghanistan before he had a chance to leave then people who don't like the current president wouldn't be downplaying he killing of Bin Laden so much because it would have taken place under the watch of President Bush.
However, since Bin Laden was allowed to slip out of Afghanistan some people say "Well, Obama just gave the order..."
No shit!? Aren't presidents are supposed to give such orders?! I mean that is part of their job description right? Commander in Chief of the armed forces?
So the question is why didn't the administration give the order in 2001 or 2002? Did the plans proposed not reach the administration? That's kind of weird considering the target.
Was it even really necessary to even get involved in Iraq? Right until a few weeks weapons inspectors in Iraq were doing their job before they had to leave. Additionally over 10 years after the invasion of Iraq there haven't been any proof found of a weapons program that would result in a mushroom cloud.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIqJ5g-wTbI
sure he was an evil dick. but now there is a large group of people who are evil dicks every bit as (if not actually more) brutal as Saddam could be but on top of that they're also fundamentalist asses as well.
It is well known that Saddam Hussein wasn't a fundamentalist religious individual.
So Saddam was taken out only to have something worse take up power in large areas of Iraq.
Guess people should have paid much more attention to someone with military experience, in regards to Iraq
"You break it, you own it." ~ Colin Powell.
As quoted in Plan of Attack (2004) by Bob Woodward, a book in which he was a key source, cautioning President Bush before the Iraqi war that he would be responsible for the fate of the Iraqi's after the fall of the Hussein regime.
Woodware, Bob (2002). Bush at War. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Simon and Schuster. p. 61. ISBN 0743215389.
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