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Originally Posted by Rochard
I could care less about Bush but I honestly believe that we had more than ample reason to go into Iraq and kick arse. While everyone hypes up the WMD arguement, well, there was a list of a dozen or so reasons why we went in - gross violations of prior terms set up with Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War including them shooting at US warplanes.
Shoot at a US Warplane and we'll invade your country and destroy your government. That sends a pretty clear message to others.
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Not even thinking and realizing that Saddam Hussein was the one keeping the sectarian violence at bay, and once his handle on the country was removed, it gave the various sects a free reign to cause the death and destruction that their fear of an elderly dictator was preventing. I don't think Saddam Hussein was a good man, just the opposite, but sometimes there's something known as the lesser of two evils, and Saddam Hussein was the lesser of the evils of unleashing the beast of religious violence. While he was in power everyone was too afraid of him to start in on each other. Ahh well, another mark for the US on it's wonderful history of butting it's nose in where it doesn't belong, yet again.
And once again, the US will end up withdrawing helpless and yet again (such as in Afganistan and other countries over the last century) leave an entire country and culture of people with a legacy of chaos, sectarian violence and civil war. Big thumbs up. The people I feel most sorry for are the troops, they are dying needlessly on the whims of some coked-out moron with a point to prove.