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Originally posted by broke
We have, in fact, gained enormous, immensely valuable, even decisive credibility from our actions. For the next time the United States, or at least this president, warns some foreign despot to cease actions we believe are threatening to our security, my hunch is that he will listen, and listen carefully.
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Yeah, Saddam Hussein knew exactly some time before the attack that he will get attacked... Did nothing... Dictators are proud, war lovers and always think that THEY will be able to defeat the evil ones...
The US lost credibility... Dictators now know the the US cannot do the same mistake they did with Iraq... They know that the US will need BULLETPROOF evidances from now on.. Also, Dictators know how this world works... They can resist all they want... but they absolutely know that at the last minute, they can say OK, OK.. we surrender... when they know an attack is imminent.. How's that changed with the US invading IRAQ!?!??
Get a clue.. Bush has broken the trust the US had with the other countries... Other countries will think twice before supporting a war against North-Korea for exemple... even if the war is necessary... which is scary... never heard of the story of the boy screaming about a wolf... he was lying all along but when the worlf really came.. nobody believed him...!?
You know whats the worst consequences of the Iraq fiasco? The trust they lost from the British...
The British which is an ESSENTIAL ally have been burned by Bush... they'll also want BULLETPROOF evidances in the future which the US might never be able to give them...
Can you just imagine the repercussions of the US invading another country while not getting the approval of all major countries? Ofcourse not... you think the US is the daddy of the world.. only kids can get grounded!!
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This is not theory. Already, the administration has won another victory in Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's decision to surrender his weapons of mass destruction programs as a direct consequence of our actions in Iraq. He himself has said that the example of Iraq was the determining factor in his decision. And it is a powerful precedent, for it is the first time that a state has surrendered these weapons without a regime change.
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lol you deal with a treath when there's one... If Lybia is a definate threat... and Libya would have refuse to comply... then we would have intervene and make them as an exemple for others... instead of using Iraq..