Former President Cheney urges another war (on Iran)

[Kasz216]

sethnintendo said:

Kasz216 said:

 

Did Reagan have any active war's... i'm drawing a blank.

There was the whole Iran-Contra debacle.  While we weren't technically at war we did give weapons to help fuel a war.  Funny that we were so scared of WMDs from Iraq (I wasn't) when we allowed the use of chemical warfare against the Iranians and the Kurds.  It is pretty obvious USA needs to stop messing around with other countries (especially the Middle East and Latin America).  Every time USA tries to interfere/intervene with another country they usually mess things up.  The world would be better off if USA would stop trying to interfere with every country.

I wouldn't disagree.  Though yeah, i wouln't call Iran Contra a war persay.  Ridiculious... but not a war.

Still it says something about US Presidents.

Bush's mistake compaired to other presidents wasn't that he ordered an attack.  It's that he actually decided to stay.

Typical US procedure is to just pound the otherside making their lives miserable and targeting their bigwigs until they give us what they want.  In this case he actually ran them out of power, leaving him with the legacy of needing to nation build.

 

Had Bush just bombed Afghanistan until they have up Osama  (or he went to the wind and we got something else from them) and hell, even bombed Iraq until they let weapon inspectors in or something...

Almost no one would of cared.

Problem was, like Jimmy Carter.  George Bush was an optimistic idealist  (of course with far different views.)

Bush actualy thought he could run them out of power, get the US what it anted AND install democracies that would praise the US for saving them.