Biden and the Iraq war
Daily Beast:
Those most responsible for the Iraq war were the analyst at the CIA who told the President and the Congress that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Without that bad intelligence, Bush is unlikely to have sent troops into Iraq. It is also less than ironic that the CIA turned on Bush after the war exposed their bad intelligence. It is another reason to be suspicious of those at the top of the CIA and at this point, Trump must be suspicious about what they are telling him too.
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Reviewing Biden’s record on Iraq is like rewinding footage of a car crash to identify the fateful decisions that arrayed people at the bloody intersection. He was not just another Democratic hawk navigating the trauma of 9/11 in a misguided way. He didn’t merely call his vote for a disastrous war part of “a march to peace and security.” Biden got the Iraq war wrong before and throughout invasion, occupation, and withdrawal. Convenient as it is to blame Bush—who, to be clear, bears primary and eternal responsibility for the disaster—Biden embraced the Iraq war for what he portrayed as the result of his foreign policy principles and persisted, most often in error, for the same reasons.
Biden contextualized the war within an assertion that America has the right to enforce its standards of behavior in the name of the international community, even when the international community rejects American intervention. While Biden, as the senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for most of the war, had unique prominence for his views, they didn’t come out of nowhere. For while Biden bullshitted through his September NPR interview, he also said something true: “I think the vast majority of the foreign policy community thinks [my record has] been very good.” That will be important context should Biden become president. He’s the favorite of many in Democratic foreign policy circles who believe in resetting the American geopolitical position to what it was the day before Trump was elected, rather than considering it critical context for why Trump was elected.
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Those most responsible for the Iraq war were the analyst at the CIA who told the President and the Congress that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Without that bad intelligence, Bush is unlikely to have sent troops into Iraq. It is also less than ironic that the CIA turned on Bush after the war exposed their bad intelligence. It is another reason to be suspicious of those at the top of the CIA and at this point, Trump must be suspicious about what they are telling him too.
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