Erick Erickson (Diary)
RedState
For two years, President George W. Bush made a public case for an invasion of Iraq. He built public support, international support, and congressional support. His administration documented CIA intelligence on weapons of mass destruction, Saddam Hussein’s personal cheerleading over 9/11, the dictator attempting to assassinate President George H. W. Bush after the President had left office, Al Qaeda’s use of Iraq as a training ground for further attacks on our interests, and then he explained how this all merged into a real and tangible threat to our national security interests. The United States and its allies prosecuted the case before the UN Security Council getting more than 16 resolutions over a decade leading up to Bush’s push.
Despite
his multi-year, multilateral effort to build support, in the aftermath of the
war the Democrats called those two years a “rush to war” and attacked the large
multilateral effort as nonexistent. In 2004, our present Secretary of State, then
a Democratic candidate for President, went out of his way to insult those
countries then aiding the effort in Iraq.
If
what George W. Bush did was a rush to war with a nonexistent coalition, what
the hell is this effort to bomb Syria?
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