ViceZilla’s Views

“I don’t know what they are talking about here. Do they think life would be better in the Middle East if Saddam were still there,” Bush senior said in an interview published Friday. Apparently critics of Bush junior’s handling of the Iraq war are “grossly unfair,” and have forgotten the brutality of former leader Saddam Hussein.

Really? Saddam Hussein was a thug, and a brutal tyrant, no doubt about that. But it’s funny how Bush senior never took him out when the opportunity presented itself. I guess he wasn’t all that bad back then to warrant his being taken out of power. He used Sarin gas on his own countrymen in 1988. He invaded Iraq’s peaceful neighbor Kuwait in 1990.

But back then, on your watch he was tolerable I guess. Maybe, just maybe Bush senior was smart enough to know that getting involved in Iraq would be a quagmire, and decided against an occupation at that time. Unfortunately, Bush junior wasn’t that smart, and jumped into the Iraq quagmire head first with the excuse of “he tried to kill my Daddy,” as his justification.

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Tags: Bush Administration, Political Rhetoric, War in Iraq //