Reply #2: can't speak for him, but I always knew the end result of removing Saddam

[Lerkfish]

would be civil war. And I'm no frigging diplomacy expert.
As bad and as ironfisted as Hussein was, he kept a lid on a very volatile pressure cooker.
I said, way back before we invaded, on another political board, that IF we wanted to remove him, we had to do so with resulting civil war in mind, and find a prudent plan for AFTER that happened.

No one in the administration seemed willing to entertain that obvious reality.

only saying, Me pointing that out did not mean I WANTED civil war there...just that it was the obvious result.