Originally Posted by aceventura3

Do you really need me to make the case? Are you saying that Bush on the Iraq issue took you by surprise? Did you not know the people who worked closely with Bush and what their views were? Did you ever listen to him talk about foreign affairs?





The nation building issue came up after the invasion. don't you remember that was the whole issue about his administration failing to plan. That was the issue with Chaney's comment about being greeted as liberators. That was Powel's comment about "you break it, you fix it". I had mixed feeling about the occupation or "nation building", but in the end I think it was the right thing to do. The "star wars" vision is still actually a part of what Obama is dealing with. Reagan's vision has lead to technology that helped during the first Gulf War and is giving Obama the opportunity to implement "mobile" missile defense as opposed to "fixed location" missile defense to make Russia more comfortable and still provide some defense in eastern Europe.




Like I wrote earlier, some of you had your heads up your..., and now you say I am revising history. So, you think Bush's 2002 state of the union address when he first used the term "axis of evil" was something that he just dreamed up after 9/11?

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Chaney was Sec. of Defense during the Gulf War under Bush 1. Afterward he said this:



Dick Cheney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

When a person makes a comment like that what does it mean to you. Chaney was a hawk in terms of US involvement in the ME. You did not know that?