Marco Rubio has gained my undying respect by
is gutsy handling of Mike Wallace’s grilling on Fox News Sunday, May 17. Wallace insisted that Rubio “admit” that
“based on what we know now” it was a mistake to invade Iraq. Rubio refused to play the game. Presidents have to make decisions based on
what they know at the time, and based on what he knew then, Rubio insisted, Bush
made the right decision.
What people seem to forget is that Resolution
that Congress made regarding the invasion of Iraq cited many factors that
justified the use of military force. The
issue of Weapons of Mass destruction was only one. (If memory serves me, there were 23.) First off, Saddam refused to comply with UN
Resolution 1441, the conditions of the 1991 ceasefire, and for 12 years refused
to allow U.N. weapons inspectors access to crucial armament facilities. Other
reasons listed were the attempted assassination of President Gorge H, W. Bush,
the firing on coalition aircraft enforcing the no-fly zone following the Gulf
War, Saddam’s paying bounties to the families of suicide bombers, his using the
proceeds from the “oil for food” program to purchase long range missiles.
Many people will say now that they disagreed
from the get go with Bush’s decision, but that is simply not true. His approval
rating hit almost 90 per during and shortly after the invasion. Bush’s success was a political disaster for
Democrats in this country.
The real disaster for world peace was
President Obama’s refusal to negotiate a post war alliance. His political base was intent on one thing:
destroying George Bush’s legacy, so they intentionally abandoned Iraq and the
Middle East to chaos.
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