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Originally posted by Joe Sixpack
No, but if nothing has changed since 1998, why all the fuss now?
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For any and all of the reasons commonly stated.. I've never said otherwise.. I would agree or am open to Oil, distraction from the US economy, dual use economics and war as a stimulous to the US economy, lack of catching Bin Laden, keeping 9/11 "fresh" to shore up the thing that gave him his real support, imperialism and denying of french/russian imperialism, blah blah blah as reasons... none of that would change the fact that Saddam probably has the weapons. He's a bad mofo, and no amount of the rest of the world acting better, as bad or worse in foreign policy is going to change that. There is no black and white. Everyone is tainted. Everyone has a vested interest.
As I've said before the real losers in this are the Iraqi people. The amount of civilians that are going to be either killed or displaced is nuts. With no guarantee the US installed leader will be much better, only that he will be compliant to US interests.
They still wear the burqa in Afghanistan.
If only one of those nifty predator drones could take Saddam and his son out.. with swift intervention to fill the vacuum. (intentionally naive, you get the idea though, succeeding in what the CIA has tried but failed at) no thousands of innocent people killed.. no mass creation of possible terrorists. I think the UN estimated about a million people will be left "displaced" by any urban Iraq war.. They aren't going to be thankful they no longer have a roof over their heads and the same countries that create their situation to "free them" aren't going to allow them in as refugees because then they cease being "oppressed by a murderous dictator" and start being "potential terrorists".
Besides Iraqi civilians it's Australian exports that are my other concern.