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Originally Posted by transplant99
Agreed....but that goes back to my original point that the UN backing this doesn't make it any more legitimate...unless doing it openly is somehow worse than doing it quietly. In the end, 10's of thousands were flat out murdered....either way.
Remember...Hussein bombed his own people ( well not his people but ones that were Iraqi) with chemical weapons, but somehow that wasn't addressed by the UN either as far as agreeing to take military action.
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The big difference for me, is that the Iraqi people hadn't broken out in a massive revolt. From what I remember the Iraqi's had a pretty good standard of living and probably lived an alright life if they kept their heads down and were part of the majority ethnic population. The USA had a chance to take the moral high ground when there was a revolt by the Kurds and I believe the Shiat in the Delta after Desert Storm, but they passed.
As the saying goes 'you can take a horse to water but you can't make them drink'.
For the most part the Iraqi's weren't thirsty, the Libyans are.