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Originally posted by Workshop_Willy
Your question presumes it was a mistake at all. To be fair (and frankly, honest) you should ask first IF it was a mistake.
IMO, Iraq was not a fuckup. It's working beautifully. Here's why:
Killing terrorists in Falujah is MUCH easier than chasing them through Tora Bora. The terrorists are, ironically enough, "bringing the mountain to mohammed" by coming into Iraq to fight us. This was one of the clearly stated goals of our strategy in Iraq. Beautiful.
Sadaam Hussein is a megalomaniac whose personal goal is domination in the Arab world. He sees himself as the next great pan-arab leader. One of the ways in which he has tried to accomplish this (and this is why it matters), is by getting control of enough oil reserves to leverage his way into the game. This job was left unfinished in 1991, and it is finished now. I mean, who the hell thinks its a good idea to allow that guy to have a grip on the world economy?
It was real-politik in action.
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Killing terrorists? Uhm... alright, let's just clarify this for a second.
The terrorists never were in Iraq. That's not who the US was going after when they entered. The terrorists that are dying there now? Sure, you can call them terrorists... I am willing to bet that they call themselves freedom fighters who are trying to stop the invaders into their own country.
Don't go praising the deaths of terrorists when it was the US that made them into "terrorists" in the first place by taking over their land.