Kerry says Netanyahu was wrong the last time he pushed war for the U.S.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

http://mondoweiss.net/2015/02/netanyahu-wrong-pushed

It’s now been over a month since the Netanyahu speech was announced in Washington as a morning-after rebuke to the president’s appeal for Iran negotiations in his State of the Union speech, and the drama yielded yet another great reward yesterday when Secretary of State John Kerry said Netanyahu was “wrong” to oppose the U.S. preliminary deal with Iran and criticized Netanyahu for his advice to the U.S. before we invaded Iraq in 2003.

“The Prime Minister was also profoundly forward-leaning about the importance of invading Iraq under George W Bush, and we all know what happened with that decision.”

Below is the Netanyahu testimony on the Iraq war, at CSPAN. Excerpt:

“If you take out Saddam’s regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region… The task and the great opportunity and challenge is not merely to effect the ouster of the regime, but also to transform the region.”

[Chemisse]

1. We are still reeling from the "positive" reverberations.

I am so grateful that Obama is not kissing this guy's ass.

[Thinkingabout]

2. Proof he is interest in attacking anywhere. He should have known Saddam had close control of

Iran and after the overthrow of Saddam Iran stepped up their nuclear development. Saddam wasn't a nice guy by any means but he controlled Iran. Now it is a total mess, we do not need to interfer with Israeli elections even though Netanyahu was interfering with US elections in 2012. One of the worse decisions ever made by US was invading Iraq for no reason.

[Scootaloo]

3. Saddam didn't "control Iran"

Iran whipped Iraq like a mule in the war we asked him to start in 1980. In 1990, two years after that war's end, we basically eradicated the Iraqi army as it retreated from Kuwait. Following that were thirteen years of sanctions, no-fly zones, and disarmament.

2003's invasion just finished a job we had started in 1978 when we backed saddam's coup against al-Bakr (no great guy himself, of course).

If Iran "stepped up its nuclear development" (bear in mind the only evidence is Israel going "trust us! No really!&quot then it was more likely due to a nuclear power obliterating a neighbor state, to the throaty cheers of another nuclear power, both of whom were also growling about the "need" to annihilate Iran. Because it surely wasn't Iraq "reigning Iran in."

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4. +1.

Well done.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

5. Nice to have you and your insight back.

Suspenders...

Still laugh about that one from time to time.