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Originally posted by piker
The verdict isn't out on Iraq yet. The Kerry campaign is saying its a cluster fuck because they think its good for their campaign...
Some of the adminstration says a worst case scenario is a civil war. Some say otherwise... It's simply to early to tell..
However, we know from the head of the IRaq Weapons Program that Iraq could of made WMD's very quickly (NY Times Interview) and we know they had ties to Al Queda (Zarqawi). We also know that while we were playing around with the UN to see if they would support action in Iraq... Saddam had 6 months to move whatever WMD's we know he had at one point...
So the argument the Kerry campaign is making that Iraq and the world were better off before US action is simply not true. I haven't heard anyone ask the president if the disbanning of the Iraqi Army was a bad idea.. So I don't know how he feels now... I do know that he feels Iraq will eventually turn out alright and I think we as a whole should hope so too..
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It is too early to tell how things will end in Iraq. We are probably 5-10 years from a final outcome on that but one thing is clear. The bush administration has picked thier course and will not vear from it no matter what. Only recently ( in the last couple of weeks ) did they divert some of the money that was going to go to elections help over there into helping with security because the situation was to dangerous and threatening to hold a serious and effective elections. Apparently the months of car bombings and kidnappings previously were not that threatening.
also as for Ireaq's connection to Al Queda being Zarqawi, CNN seems to thing that he and Osama are actually competitors
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/09/24/who.zarqawi/index.html is the story where it talks about him asking Al Queda for help and basically being turnned down. Also, it looks like this Zarqawi guy only went to Iraq after our invasion, he's actually from Jordan.
I haven't heard Kerry say that the world would be better off if we didn't invade Iraq. I have heard him say it would be better off if we would have waited for a UN collalition.