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In reply to the discussion: Thank you Senators Byrd, Kennedy, Leahy, Jeffords and all those who voted against the IWR [View all]EEO
(1,620 posts)16. Saddam was contained by us and maintained order.
He was not a nice man, but he served a purpose. You cannot impose democracy on others. When our occupation of Iraq was really under heavy assault and we were pulled into the civil war that resulted from the power vacuum WE created I snidely replied to a friend who was commenting on our precarious position that, "You know what Iraq needs? A dictator." He said I was ironically, and sadly, correct. George H.W. Bush was correct when he decided to contain Saddam rather than overthrow him during Operation Desert Storm. He got hell for it at the time, but he had remarkable foresight in that matter. We never should have gone to war with Iraq again and we did so under false pretenses, and under the leadership of war criminals.
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Thank you Senators Byrd, Kennedy, Leahy, Jeffords and all those who voted against the IWR [View all]
cali
Jun 2014
OP
Iraq is now an unpredictable mess. What value did the war serve? Absolutely nothing.
Enthusiast
Jun 2014
#9
Iraq was a relatively stable country under Saddam Hussein. The people had HC, Education. And get
sabrina 1
Jun 2014
#25
Regime Change was the way to disrupt the balance of power in the Middle East between Political and
DhhD
Jun 2014
#20
the IWR didn't give Bush any authority or even the power to do what he ultimately did
bigtree
Jun 2014
#22
I lived through that era, began my internet activism a few months before that vote
bigtree
Jun 2014
#36
Out of curiosity, were you able to bring yourself to vote for John Kerry in 2004?
Nye Bevan
Jun 2014
#27
Were those who voted for the killing bamboozled or politically expedient?
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jun 2014
#29
I have become so cynical that I would say every vote taken was out of political expediency.
NCTraveler
Jun 2014
#33