{"id":9429,"date":"2015-05-21T02:50:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9429"},"modified":"2015-05-21T02:50:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T02:50:00","slug":"dr-carson-i-wouldnt-have-invaded-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9429","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Carson: I wouldn&#039;t have invaded Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>There you have it.<\/p>\n<p>The growing field of Republican presidential candidates is being sprinkled with individuals who actually are breaking with a key policy of the most recent GOP president.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ben Carson said this week he would not have &#8220;gone into\u00a0Iraq.&#8221; He said the United States could have employed other means to get rid of the late Saddam Hussein. He said the nation lacked a clear long-term strategy once Saddam had been toppled.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"3u9zlpoVHd\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/242729-carson-says-iraq-invasion-was-a-mistake\/\">Carson says Iraq invasion was a mistake<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Carson says Iraq invasion was a mistake&#8221; &#8212; The Hill\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/242729-carson-says-iraq-invasion-was-a-mistake\/embed\/#?secret=GJeXplnkkQ#?secret=3u9zlpoVHd\" data-secret=\"3u9zlpoVHd\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you go into a situation with so many factions and such a complex history, unless you know what you\u2019re doing or have a long-term strategy, it just creates more problems,\u201d Carson told The Hill in a telephone interview.<\/p>\n<p>He becomes the second major Republican figure to put daylight between himself and former President George W. Bush. The other one, more or less, was the former president&#8217;s younger brother, Jeb, who took a more awkward approach to trying to take back what he said initially in a clumsy response to a TV reporter&#8217;s direct question.<\/p>\n<p>There well might be others GOP candidates who will realize the folly of going to war on what is now known to have been faulty intelligence regarding Iraq&#8217;s supposed possession of chemical weapons.<\/p>\n<p>The Iraq War was a mistake. It&#8217;s good to hear Dr. Carson acknowledge as much.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m now waiting for former Vice President Dick Cheney &#8212; who&#8217;s been blasting Democratic officials&#8217; criticism of the war &#8212; to weigh in against his fellow Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Well, Mr. Vice President?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There you have it. The growing field of Republican presidential candidates is being sprinkled with individuals who actually are breaking with a key policy of the most recent GOP president. 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