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Originally Posted by crockett
It seems you forgot the war over Kuwait, was in 1991 not 2001. There was no reason to go into Iraq a second time he was contained and doing nothing. The only reason we went there was to play nation builders and give certain US companies a shit load of tax payer money.
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I didn't forget anything. In 1991 I was fresh out of the US Marines and was inactive reserve - ready to be called up if required.
We didn't finish anything in 1991. By trying to do the right thing, we allowed their government to stay in power. But yet Iraq continued to fire at us on a near daily basis, creating a defacto state of war between the US and Iraq. Pretty simple - You fire at a US warplane, it's an act of war.