Wolfowitz finally admits the US "bungled in Iraq."

[PLC1]

10 Years On, Paul Wolfowitz Admits U.S. Bungled in Iraq

The former deputy Pentagon chief, Paul Wolfowitz, a driving force behind the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, has conceded that a series of blunders by George W. Bush’s administration plunged Iraq into a cycle of violence that “spiralled out of control”.
In an interview with The Sunday Times to mark the 10th anniversary of the Iraq invasion, he said there “should have been Iraqi leadership from the beginning”, rather than a 14-month occupation led by an American viceroy and based on “this idea that we’re going to come in like [General Douglas] MacArthur in Japan and write the constitution for them”.

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[dogtowner]

Sounds good on paper but few if any were willing much less able.
So we would still have to basically pick one and then its the puppet thing.
If we said sink or swim then its sink and Iraq becomes West Iran.

Problems aplenty no matter which way you turn.

 

[Gipper]

Yeah....big surprise.

The real PROBLEM was the invasion. If America followed the intelligent policy of NONINTERVENTION, all those deaths and destruction would have never occurred.

The consequences of Bush's war are not fully known yet. If Iran or Islamists take over Iraq, what was accomplished by America's invasion? Answer...nothing good. One would think the American people would come to realize that interventionist war mongering policies are not effective and can be most detrimental.

 

[PLC1]

Yeah....big surprise.

The real PROBLEM was the invasion. If America followed the intelligent policy of NONINTERVENTION, all those deaths and destruction would have never occurred.

The consequences of Bush's war are not fully known yet. If Iran or Islamists take over Iraq, what was accomplished by America's invasion? Answer...nothing good. One would think the American people would come to realize that interventionist war mongering policies are not effective and can be most detrimental.

yes, and the members of the PNAC, Wolfowitz, Cheney, and Rumsfeld, waited until the time was right. We'd been attacked (not by Iraq, of course, but why dwell on details?). Moreover, Saddam Hussain was developing nukes! The CIA said so, so it must have been true. It wasn't all that difficult to get the people on a war footing, and to get the Congress to approve an invasion.

 

[dogtowner]

The big mistake was stopping short in GW I

 

[Dawkinsrocks]

Ahh so the big mistake wasn't trumping up charges against Iraq, invading the country and killing a million civilians

Phew, glad that wasn't a big mistake

 

[pocketfullofshells]

yes, and the members of the PNAC, Wolfowitz, Cheney, and Rumsfeld, waited until the time was right. We'd been attacked (not by Iraq, of course, but why dwell on details?). Moreover, Saddam Hussain was developing nukes! The CIA said so, so it must have been true. It wasn't all that difficult to get the people on a war footing, and to get the Congress to approve an invasion.

actually some in the CIA Said he was...others said he was not...Bush went out and gave "Evidence" that was known by the CIA to be false...they just did not care. They had a war to sell. Its to easy to just blame the CIA...but the CIA had the intel that said Bush was wrong...they chose to ignore it.