A.G. Gancarski
Florida’s Governor is offering a reconsideration of a former long time dictator of Iraq who is estimated to have killed at least 250,000 of his own people, nearly 20 years to the day after the U.S. captured him.
Ron DeSantis told supporters in New Hampshire that in one sense, things in the country dealing with American military intervention since the 1990s was better under brutal strongman Saddam Hussein.
In Windham Friday, DeSantis said that “since the Cold War ended American foreign policy has largely failed,” noting his own personal sacrifice on the pyre of Washington’s approach to international affairs.
“And I was a part of one of these wars in Iraq where you get in and there’s no concrete victory achieved. It’s just kind of ‘OK, you’re there, we are supposed to create a democracy in Iraq,'” DeSantis recounted.
“What do they have now? It’s an Iranian controlled government effectively in Iraq. How is that in America’s interest? I mean, Saddam was a bad guy but he hated the Iranians,” DeSantis added. “And so we’ve now put one of our mortal enemies effectively in charge of Iraq where they didn’t used to have that control over Iraq before.”
The Governor denounced t”he same people that have been driving this train for a decade and they’ve never succeeded in any of these conflicts,” advocating “more of a Reagan view where the way you achieve peace is through strength, but it’s not through trying to just do these interventions where we don’t have a good sense of what we’re trying to achieve.”
The Governor made the comments at an event sponsored by the Never Back Down super PAC.
DeSantis has cast doubt on the wisdom of the Iraqi invasion before.
“So these are people that were thinking, you know, you can overthrow somebody and impose an American style democracy in the Middle East. I can tell you when you’re on the ground there for like 48 hours, you realize that was not in the cards,” DeSantis said earlier this month in Prosperity, South Carolina.
He described the Iraqi government as “basically a client of the Iranians” on that occasion also.
DeSantis was in Iraq in 2007, serving as a legal advisor.
12 comments
Rick Whitaker
December 15, 2023 at 7:40 pm
monday morning quarterback / panderer
Thomas Kaspar
December 15, 2023 at 7:42 pm
More dopey spam for the gender challenged consumers.
Rick Whitaker
December 15, 2023 at 7:45 pm
thomas kasper, so you cut down people smarter than you, interesting
tom palmer
December 15, 2023 at 7:58 pm
it was the Republicans who invaded Iraq with little thought for the day after.
Rick Whitaker
December 15, 2023 at 8:10 pm
tom palmer, that was the gop that invaded iraq, not desantis’ maga cultist party.
PeterH
December 15, 2023 at 11:05 pm
Two different religious sects Ron!
My Take
December 16, 2023 at 1:19 am
The GOPer neocons lied us into attacking Iraq to do Israel’s dirty work with America’s dollars and blood. Removing their principàĺ enemy. But one who also kept his thumb upon the radical Muslim groups.
My Take
December 16, 2023 at 3:00 am
Hitler hated the Soviets.
Does Runty have a warm spot for Der Fuehrer too?
MH/Duuuval
December 16, 2023 at 4:42 pm
MAGA heart Putin.
MH/Duuuval
December 18, 2023 at 9:17 pm
The comment about Saddam hating the Iranians was telling: The US materially assisted both sides in the war between them that cost over one millions deaths of combatants and lasted 8 years. (Saddam supposedly was the US ally, but Reagan sold the Iranians weaponry to finance the Contras in Central America.)
Sonja Fitch
December 19, 2023 at 5:54 am
There it is again! Desantis used Trumps logic of THERE ARE SOME “good folks on that OTHER SIDE “.
Joe
December 20, 2023 at 9:59 am
Reminder: he’s a foreign policy neophyte who gets his terrible talking points from Casey’s twitter feed.
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