Victor Davis Hanson writes in Investment Business Daily, Revisionists Have A Field Day On Why We Invaded Iraq.

Excerpt:

 Prior to our invasion, the Kurds were a persecuted people who had been gassed, slaughtered and robbed of all rights by Saddam. In contrast, today a semi-autonomous Kurdistan is a free-market, consensual society of tolerance that, along with Israel, is one of the few humane places in the Middle East.

Nor should we forget that the U.S. military decimated al-Qaida in Iraq. Tens of thousands of foreign terrorists flocked to Anbar province and there met their deaths. When Obama later declared that al-Qaida was “on the run,” it was largely because it had been nearly obliterated in Iraq.

Launching a costly campaign to remove Saddam may or may not have been a wise move. But it is historically inaccurate to suggest that the Iraq War was cooked up by George W. Bush alone — or that it did not do enormous damage to al-Qaida, bring salvation for the Kurds and by 2009 provide a rare chance for the now-bickering Iraqis to make something out of what Saddam had tried to destroy.

 

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