Would you prefer Saddam Hussein still be in power over Iraq? No hyperbole, no B.S. excuses. Just answer that question.
Absolutely with NO doubt whatsoever! He was a stabilizing influence in the region - kept Iran in check. He gave us a "bogey-man" to have a "single" point of focus for us to keep attention away from other sh$t here at home....always a flag waving moment in there somewhere... He only had equipment and supplies that Germany and us gave him, so we DID have a known reference to work from - in spite of the lies we were told...and knew were lies from the get go.
How many of today's radical groups now have some of Russia's missing fissionable material that is unaudited?
We always had a military-industrial complex moment going so there was a known base of economic activity to offset the "threat" - even if it was contrived.
And we would have over 4,000 of our kids and $2 trillion dollars back! And I wouldn't even mind paying that $2 trillion just to keep those thousands alive plus the wounded intact and whole!! This was in the top 1 or 2 of the most ignorant things we have done.
There would also be about 800,000 Iraqi's alive today that we would not have been the direct proximate cause of death.
This is all due to a complete lack of understanding of the mid-east by the Clown Show while making their "Mission Accomplished" poster. We overlay our "John Wayne Cowboy" attitude over everything we do, making every problem and nail, and the only tool we have or understand is a hammer!! Dealing with civilizations and cultures that are pretty much ALL hundreds and even thousands of years older than ours who do NOT adhere to our Western ways!
In much the same way we didn't understand Viet Nam. And how we still don't understand China! Anyone think for a second that they don't plan dozens to hundreds of years out?? Even though we have been told this repeatedly.... they are very likely working to secure their nation from outside intrusion so graphically exemplified by the Boxer War....and other insults.
This is why it went the way it did in 1991. George H W was a VERY intelligent man, who understood global politics pretty well - MUCH better than Baby!! (He has just gotta be SO proud of his son!!) We stopped when we made the point that needed to be made! And left the basic infrastructure intact giving a much more stable situation than today! For about a decade. And if Clinton didn't have the yammering ankle biters working against rather than with, better progress might have been made against Al Qaeda throughout the 90's....if more strikes than the one had been made, perhaps they would have eventually gotten Bin Laden and some of his buddies before turning them into martyrs....and breeding whole legions of new zealots! Another example of how we just don't understand the radical religious fanaticism is how they can get so many true believers to carry a bomb into the middle of some place and set it off - we have the exact opposite philosophy of trying to preserve our fighters every chance we get. Basic disconnect with reality.
Now, we are in the position where we will have to resort to mass killing of militants along with the civilians they are interspersed among. Do you really believe we have the political will to kill another 2 to 3 million in pursuit of "stable" oil supplies?? Or to satisfy someone's ego??
No hyperbole! No BS! No excuses ever!
And I presume you think it was a "Noble Adventure"...??
