Mar 28, 2011 ... To be blunt, we went down that road in Iraq. Thanks to the extraordinary sacrifices of our troops and the determination of our diplomats, we are hopeful about Iraq's future. But regime change there took eight years, thousands of American and Iraqi lives, and nearly a trillion dollars. That is not something we ...
A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa. ..... Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq, Updated Edition. University of .... Inter Press Service, May 5, 2008, "Pentagon Targeted Iran for Regime Change after 9/11," http://ipsnorthamerica.net/news.php?idnews=1446 also archived at ...
Jan 30, 2017 ... Global Warfare: “We're going to take out 7 countries in 5 years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan & Iran. ..... you'd probably believe that you were mostly already at war with the United States anyway, since we've asserted that their government needs regime change, and we've asked congress to ...
Apr 8, 2017 ... We took out something bad, and something worse took its place. Then we got bogged down in years of deadly, costly, ugly nation-building. Barack Obama's regime change in Libya was also a mistake. First, it trampled the Constitution because he never sought congressional authorization. As in Iraq ...
In 2003, Bush ordered an invasion of Iraq, asserting that Iraq possessed stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1441. Later that year, he signed the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, which created Medicare Part D and made other changes to ...
Regime change (in Iraq) took eight years