Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Fact Checking the Tucker Carlson - Col MacGregor Interview of August 21st" video.

@robk8463 Macgregor deserves ZERO respect. He was the architect of the Invasion of Iraq and his plan IGNORED what everyone else was saying at the time. The rest of the military were trying to explain to Donald Rumsfeld and others that the main issue WASN'T taking Bagdad and removing the Iraqi Government but securing the country afterwards. HE IS DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE for the disaster that was Gulf War 2 where several 1,000 Americans and several 100,000 Iraqis died. In basic terms he's a war criminal or should at least be treated like one.
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@robk8463 Thanks I'm not trying to be rabidly antagonistic just factual and the facts are Macgregor may have been brilliant as a tank commander and lead his men brilliantly but he screwed up with the Invasion of Iraq and people like Tucker C and the Hoover Institution just IGNORE that. If Macgregor simply came clean on that failure and pointed out the lessons learned from that failure and what to avoid in future then I'd back his expertise, but he's NOT doing that. Nobody's perfect. I know I'm not.
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@robk8463 I absolutely agree with you but what Macgregor did with respect to Iraq SHOULD NEVER BE FORGOTTON. Tucker Carlson isn't the only person who has rolled him out and presented him as a war hero. I'm not trying to detract from what Macgregor did during Gulf War 1 at battles like 73 Easting. There's no doubt he lead troops into danger, defeated a more numerous enemy and got his men out without casualties. I'd bet every American soldier in that battle sees him as a hero and they have every right to see him that way, BUT THAT DOES NOT ABSOLVE him of what he did with respect to the invasion of Iraq. He willfully ignored what other people WITH EXPERTISE were saying. There was a lot more than just a tank battle there was the securing of a nation and if you remember that time it was the lack of numbers that caused the failure to secure the Iraqi military supplies which included the explosives that were later used against American personnel and the civilian population.
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@MonkeyJedi99 Go see the answer I just gave and in respect to your reply which I know is sarcastic the answer is Compassion Yes but also DON'T put them in front of a microphone. Tucker C needs to watch himself because he's cost Rupert Murdoch over $800 million so far and Rupert has a vengeful streak as wide as a Galaxy. Best advice to Tucker would be go away and hide somewhere and be very quiet.
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There's one thing you didn't point out about Colonel Douglas Abbott Macgregor Ret. and that's his involvement in the Invasion of Iraq (Gulf War 2). There's a PBS Frontline documentary called "Rumsfeld's War" (October 2004) that's mostly about Donald Rumsfeld's conflicts with the Pentagon when he was Secretary of Defense with Paul Wolfowitz as his deputy under George W Bush. There's at least 1 copy of that documentary here on YT. When the Neocons first wanted to invade Iraq and remove Saddam from power which had nothing to do with WMDs or 9/11 as it was purely ideological thing where they simply wanted regime change. They went to the Pentagon and asked "How many troops?" The answer from people like Eric Shinseki was "several hundred thousand" while others had said 560,000. The reason Shinseki gave was with respect to "post hostility control over a piece of geography that's fairly significant with the kinds of ethnic tensions that could lead to other problems." This is all covered in the PBS documentary with footage of Shinseki saying that to congress. Those are direct quotes from the documentary. It also shows Wolfowitz who had zero military experience telling congress that it was hard to imagine that it would take more people to secure the country than to fight the war. This is when Macgregor stepped in with his genius. He's actually on the documentary saying how he laughed at the number 560,000 and said no you just needed 50,000 in a rapid deployment. Just rush up to Bagdad and remove the Iraqi Government because the Iraqi military is weak. He then wrote the battle plan for the Invasion. They even show the cover page for Macgregor's plan in the documentary. The simple fact is Macgregor DID NOT LISTEN to what others were saying. It wasn't about taking Bagdad it was about SECURING the country AFTERWARDS. YES Colonel Douglas Abbott Macgregor Ret. is the architect of the Invasion of Iraq that ended with the exact sort of disaster that others had predicted - ethnic tribal warfare. Thanks to this clown giving a group of idiotic politicians what they wanted to hear he helped destroy a country that, cost 1,000s of American and allied lives, several 100,000 Iraqi civilian lives and cost America and its allies well over a $$$TRILLION. Noone should take this clown seriously and yet he's rolled out again and again as an "expert."
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