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Re: War on Iraq

Sat, 29 March 2003 19:09

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Marduk wrote on Sat, 29 March 2003 10:17

One of the primary objectives of the first war was to remove Hussein from power. The decision on whether or not to push for that was left to then-general Colin Powell, who for some reason chose not to.

I do believe we need to kill Saddam, though - we put him in power, and hence are indirectly responsible for the things he's done.

I have a very big problem with these two statements. Removing Saddam from power was NEVER an objective of Desert Storm. Bush lead a coalition of nations to remove Saddam from Kuwait, and that was ALL the UN authorized. If Bush had wanted to remove Saddam from power then, he would have been going it alone, or at least inasmuch as Bush Jr is doing so now.

And we did not PUT Saddam in power. Saddam seized power thru his own ruthless endeavors. The United States role that you refer to in error, was supplying weapons (including chemical and biological) to prevent Iraq from being overrun by Iran in the 1980's after Saddam stupidly started a war with Iran that he couldn't win. The government of Iran was no friend of the US, and we didn't want them to have Iran and Iraq too. Was it a good idea? I dunno. Maybe then it was, and now it's not. Certainly it succeeded in preventing Iran from absorbing Iraq and becoming a bigger threat, possibly a much bigger threat than Iraq is today. I have no problem with government policy being good twenty-something years ago and not good now. You can't tell me what the weather is going to be like next year, so expecting an administration to make policy that can't turn bad 20 or 30 years later is just an unrealistic expectation. How was Reagan to know that Iraq would turn against the US and possibly give those same weapons to shadowy enemies accountable to no one?

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