I don’t how many others watched the interview with the FBI agent who interrogated Saddam Hussein, on 60 minutes last night, but if you did, and you’re not as outraged and pissed off as I am right now, you must live on another planet.
What our not so illustrious president George Bush has accomplished with the US attack on Iraq, is to play right into the hand of Iran, by doing exactly what Iran had been unsuccessful in doing for the past 20+ years, and that was to eliminate the one impediment to Iran’s goal of dominating the entire middle east.
In that regard, Saddam Hussein (as loathsome as he was, and what many now use to rationalize the attack on Iraq) was actually doing our bidding. By perpetuating the lie about weapons of mass destruction, he was acting as a stabilizing force in that region, essentially looking out for our best interest.
What our attack on Iraq did, was open Pandora’s box, taking away taking away whatever stabilizing force there was in the area.
I don’t even want to imagine what the ultimate conclusion of this story will be, once we leave Iraq, when the new Shiite government of Iraq (which we helped install) aligns itself with the Shiite government of Iran, creating an alliance capable of threatening Israel, as well as our vital interests in the area, totally destabilizing the entire middle east region.
If George Bush, or anyone else out there, still believes Bush’s legacy will be likened to that of Teddy Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman or even Ronald Reagan they will be sadly mistaken.
The more likely scenario is George Bush will be compared to the likes of James Buchanan, Millard Fillmore, Herbert Hoover and Jimmy Carter.