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Originally Posted by blankall
An attempted assassination of the president's father who at the time was the president himself.
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"I'm looking for the man that tried to shoot my pa!"
Yeah, that's a reasonable response for the leader of the most powerful nation on the planet. Great way of formulating foreign policy too. Not even Bush is that big an idiot to consider attempting to even a score putting the nation's sons and daughters in the military at risk, and the billions of dollars it would take to execute.
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Constant harrassment of the US's closest ally in the region (Israel).
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Actualy, that is Iran. Hussein would pay homage to martyrs, but would not overtly harass Israel except to call them names and make political statements.
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Publicly announcing they will fund the family's of anyone who makes a suicide attack on a US interest.
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Gonna need a link on that one. Again, sounds more like Iran. Hussein knew he was in no position to provoke the United States.
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Constantly flaunting violting the sanctions placed on them from the prior war.
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There is no doubt that they played games with the inspectors, but so does every country that gets inspected, including the United States. In fact, the United States has refused inspections for missle treaties more than any other nation. Seems the Americans believe they should be "trusted" but they refuse to extend the same "trust" to others. Funny how that works.
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Basically, Iraq did not fit the model for the middle east that the US had.
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