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If we rolled time back to 1998 and I argued that we should invade Afghanistan and remove the Taliban from power and get rid of Al-queda, you'd be sitting here arguing that we shouldn't. Exactly as you are arguing it was wrong to invade Iraq and remove Saddam from power (and presumably did prior to the invasion itself).
Personaly, I thought the Taleban overstepped the mark when they blew up the Buddhas.
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we did invade Iraq, and we did remove Saddam from power, so you and I and a bunch of other people did not end up suffering the likely attack that would have eventually occured.
What gives you (your Govt. or anyone elses Govt.) the right to kill thousands of people, on the pretext that 'sometime in the future those peoples leaders
might decide to attack you? (of course the sight of an army wearing sandals and carrying obsolete weaponry ( like the Iraqi army was)charging over the brow of a hill doesn't seem particularly scary to me. Of course by the time the US leaves, wich they will, the Iraqis are gonna be much better equipped, and pissed off to the max with their erstwhile occupiers.
So, lets see whats been achieved by invading Iraq and removing a threat wich may (or may not) become a problem sometime in the future...perhaps.
1. Thousands of dead and injured and maimed and mentaly destroyed humans.
2. Turned a secular country into radicalised Shiite dominated country.
3. With no law and order
4. And no security
5. Or Government (worth a sh'it)
6. An army that was armed with obsolete weapons is now armed with much more deadly kit.
7. And they know how to use it, 'cos they been trained by the US.
8. Iraq is
the number one training ground for fanatics who want to learn how to do guerrilla warfare.
9.Radicalised huge sections of the muslim world against you. Previously most muslims were pretty content to sit in coffee shops slagging you off, rather than planning on blowing you up.
10. Squandered most of the goodwill the rest of the world had for you after the 9/11 attacks.
11. Managed to somehow turn Sadaam Hussein, the beast of Baghdad, into a Martyr by allowing him to be lynched on TV.
I could go on.
Pretty poor return for half a trillion dollars IMO, for a threat wich may (or may not) have existed.
And, pray tell, what in your opinion, are the positives to have come out of this debacle?
And while your at it, why dont you explain to me, how sending 20,000 more kids to the desert to be targets for trainee jihadists (see number 8) is going to help. Because I'm sure that because its your pal Bushes idea, you will be right behind him.....