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Originally Posted by lanny9
The problem was not getting rid of Hussain, the problem was after the fact. The UN should have stepped in as peacekeepers and enough pressure should have been put on the new government to remain inclusive like they stated they would when forming government. The US could have held back military support, oil and gas technologies and hundreds more things that the government would have wanted/needed. Problem was the US instead of putting pressure on them just pulled out and said adios, Obama dropped the ball there and has to shoulder some of the responsibility. His administration should have gone to the UN and created enough worldwide pressure that the Iraqi government would have had to say yes to peacekeepers as well as some US military for support.
The thing is, you cannot just dispose of a dictator and expect a free and open society like the west. These people have grown to only know one thing, but at the same time wanting what the west has. Problem is they do not know how to handle the freedoms yet and as such turn to violence as a means to get what they want democratically. With a peacekeeping force in there you could have allowed cooler heads to prevail and the militants wouldn't have been able to take advantage of the situation created by a government like al Maliki's whose sole purpose was to make a society that only the Shia's could enjoy.
Peacekeeping forces can do good things if given the chance, the UN needs to grow a pair as does the Arab League, both should have been in there before the US pulled out(well before) but mistakes were made. Saying the people were better off under Hussain is incorrect, they didn't have their freedoms, he had his share of atrocities using mustard gas, mass killings etc, that is no way to "keep people in line" The mistakes made after they got rid of him made for this mess, if handled better I don't think Iraq would be in this mess right now.
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It wouldn't have mattered what we did, the Shia hate the Sunni, have for millennia.
The only outcome that might of avoided this would have been to dived the country into three, hand the south over to Iran, the north to the Kurds and let the Sunni have the rest ala India Pakistan, this would have still ended up with a hundred thousand dead, ethnic cleansing and the like but it would have been less chaotic.
Iraq was never a country, it was always a blood feud held together by force, be it ottoman british or Baathist.