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Originally Posted by Bingo
The guy repeatedly threatened the US
The guy defied UN inspections suggesting he had the weapons everyone feared
The guy had oil wealth to pretty much acquire what he wanted
And he was situated in a part of the world that was ripe for future terrorist activity with the flush out happening in Afghanistan.
I would have gone in.
Think I still would.
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Sure he threatened the US. He also wanted to have a hand to hand combat with Bush. Lots of sources showed he had been reduced to a paper tiger.
Sure he gave the UN inspectors a hard time, but he was shown to be pretty much clean. He wanted to give the impression he had these WMD to protect himself from his enemies surrounding him and the US. Backfired, I admit.
I believe his wealth had been seriously curtailled by the embargo Iraq was under.
Iraq was certainly ripe for future terrorist activity. Just look at what's happening there now. I read an article before the invasion outlining the various social and religious groups anxious to revenge past wrongs with support from Syria and Iran. Sadam was brutal but kept them in check.
Now the El Quida have moved in, it's pretty much a clusterfata.
I admit letting my emotions getting charged up watching the news before the invasion but I also saw what Bush's propoganda machine was doing and so stepped back and understood the whole war was ripe to become another folly like Viet Nam. With all their attention on Iraq, they haven't even cleaned up Afghanistan yet.