The President lays out major ISIS strategy...

Define 'adapt' in the context you are using it.  For example, what did you do?  Did you get behind GWB and support him?  Or did you just not complain while he was in office and wait until he got out and then blame everything on him? 

I, for one, think we as citizens should be able to complain about whomever is in office whether we support them or not and whether we voted for them or not.  Always thought it was immature to tell someone they couldn't complain because they voted for who was in office.  Or to leave the country if they wanted to complain. 

What president had a foreign policy that you agree with? People like you blindly attack and never make any good points. Bush Sr? Bush Jr? You think Romney would have had a different foreign policy? McCain?

Cheney warning at the American Enterprise Institute in 1994 of the consequences of a U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Q: Do you think the U.S., or U.N. forces, should have moved into Baghdad?

A: No.

Q: Why not?

A: Because if we'd gone to Baghdad we would have been all alone. There wouldn't have been anybody else with us. There would have been a U.S. occupation of Iraq. None of the Arab forces that were willing to fight with us in Kuwait were willing to invade Iraq.

Once you got to Iraq and took it over, took down Saddam Hussein's government, then what are you going to put in its place? That's a very volatile part of the world, and if you take down the central government of Iraq, you could very easily end up seeing pieces of Iraq fly off: part of it, the Syrians would like to have to the west, part of it -- eastern Iraq -- the Iranians would like to claim, they fought over it for eight years. In the north you've got the Kurds, and if the Kurds spin loose and join with the Kurds in Turkey, then you threaten the territorial integrity of Turkey.

It's a quagmire if you go that far and try to take over Iraq.

The other thing was casualties. Everyone was impressed with the fact we were able to do our job with as few casualties as we had. But for the 146 Americans killed in action, and for their families -- it wasn't a cheap war. And the question for the president, in terms of whether or not we went on to Baghdad, took additional casualties in an effort to get Saddam Hussein, was how many additional dead Americans is Saddam worth?

Our judgment was, not very many, and I think we got it right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BEsZMvrq-I

What changed from 1994 to 2003 besides Saddam started accepting the euro for his oil instead of the dollar?

Cheney knew exactly what was going to happen. Why did he want to invade Iraq and topple Saddam? Why was it all of a sudden worth the lives of American soldiers? What was accomplished?

Delusional righties never make any good arguments. The reasons they give for not liking Obama are lame.

Things and thoughts ...............

What "things"?

ISIS is not Islam. That is what we were told Wednesday night. It is truly hard to make this stuff up. You did not build that. Somebody did it for you. Increasing the debt limit does not increase our debt. You can keep your doctor. You can keep your plan.Vote with revenge. What difference does it make? Stand down. Stand down! What is there to like? Shocking development!  The JV team just sliced another westerner's head off.

Run of the mill delusional arguments. If people were told to stand down do you think Obama told them to stand down? What makes you say ISIS is Islam? Show me a link besides a Christie tweet or a quote from George Will. If ISIS is a varsity team than what is the US, Russia, China etc?? ISIS is a JV team. Your arguments are lame and you have no real understanding of what's going on in the world. Sad really ... there's a lot of people like you in this country.

........  What things changed after 9/11..  Stop it you're  killing me   ROLF  

List the things that changed in Iraq between 94 and 03. We had a terrorist attack in NYC. So you think the correct thing to do was to create instability in the middle east? Taking out Saddam, making Assad weak and turning Iraq and Syria into a breeding ground for terrorists was the correct thing to do?

Quote Originally Posted by wallstreetcappers:

HAHA...

Go back to the race card SS, you are losing all that momentum you had bashing Obama tonight.

I knew it ..    My goodness are you predictable.. say anything about Jimmah Carter and you come into the thread to personally attack me...you need to change your MO..lol

Man what is this a assignment ?

I was referring to things and the thoughts of Americans not Iraq like I posted in #64 ..

You will probably have to go to google ..but the instability in the Middle East started in the late 1970's when Carter did what he did with the Shah of Iran..

Cheney's quote is from 1994. Why are you bringing up Carter?

What changed besides "things and thoughts"?

"Once you got to Iraq and took it over, took down Saddam Hussein's government, then what are you going to put in its place? That's a very volatile part of the world, and if you take down the central government of Iraq, you could very easily end up seeing pieces of Iraq fly off: part of it, the Syrians would like to have to the west, part of it -- eastern Iraq -- the Iranians would like to claim, they fought over it for eight years. In the north you've got the Kurds, and if the Kurds spin loose and join with the Kurds in Turkey, then you threaten the territorial integrity of Turkey."

If Americans were told the truth instead of Iraq has wmd's than Americans "thoughts" would have been a lot different.

Why did Bush / Cheney lie to the American people and knowingly create a breeding ground for terrorists in the middle east?