Democrats were for the removal of Saddam Hussein before they were against it.
But let's suppose the Iraq war didn't happen, and Saddam Hussein remained in control to this day. To watch Barack Obama try to friend dictators and appease potentates is rather troublesome to most of us, but it happens nonetheless. We saw him work at making a deal with Iran as if having made a deal is the only thing that matters. Terms of the deal weren't relevant.
We watch as Obama moves to normalize relations with Cuba. That the country is still controlled by the iron grip of communism and the Castro brothers is a minor inconvenience.
He pulled troops out of Iraq, and that opened the door for ISIS. So what? He got the U.S. out of Iraq. Consequences don't matter.
Let's speculate. Saddam was working hard in the shadows to get the sanctions removed. He had some underhanded ways of getting cooperation from people in high places, and he was making progress.
Does anyone think Obama could have held out? Hussein would have prevailed, and today Americans would be worrying about Iraq's reconstituted nuclear weapons program.
Obama has a weakness for dictators. It would take a shrink like Charles Krauthammer to properly diagnose the problem, but it looks like a case of envy to this lay person.
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