Originally posted by Skydancer
Jackal1 both the US and Britain have supported plenty of other sadistic slobs to keep the communists at bay!
Do you by chance remember the little country that he invaded and waged wholesale murder, rape, and destruction of? This cat is so warped when there was a little boring streak in his life he just capped one of his family members for a little fun.
Who was the greatest threat? A bancrupt dictator with no WMD and a crumbling infrastructure, or a nation full of Fundamentalist loonies soon to be nuclear armed! Who hate the US with a passion and are probably already fighting an undeclard war against you.
If you are referring to Saddam as being bankrupt then man are you misinformed. Where do you get these off the wall theories from? That`s so ridculous it`s hilarious. If you still are buying into the "no WMD" crap I pity you for being so gullible to sensationalism by the media looking for a buck.
Pssssst. The "soon to be nuclear armed" will not come to be. That`s what will be dealt with in no uncertain terms if and when the time comes. Now it is just a tool for attempted blackmail and extortion. A tool that is getting to be a little annoying that if continued to be played will cost them dearly.
Mr Bush was an idiot and a foreign policy numpty to invade Iraq, Mr Blair was a fool to join him
Mr Bush did exactly what had to be done despite the I want to bury my head in the sand and pretend it doesn`t exist types . As far as Mr Blair, no comment. I don`t see it as much of a factor.
Iraq was not the hotbed of terrorists under Saddam. It is now
Iraq was a most massive terrorist factory, so to speak, in the form of training , financing, support and what they mistakenly believed, refuge.
Why do you think they are so POed at the occupation of Iraq? The playhouse is being torn down, piece by piece.
You had rather live in your fantasy world where everything is insence and peppermints and wait for them to build in size, strength , support and financing to the point of large scale, at will attacks? Then you would be creaming "why didn`t someone do something about this before it reached this point?"
What have we achieved exactly? other than to destabilise an already shaky region.
Well, let`s see, we have taken a country back from a madman and are in the process of giving it at least a chance to rebuild, restructure and have a chance to let the people live under something other than tyranny.
We have also commenced on a long term campaign to flush out and disorganize a large pipeline for terrorist training, finance and support in Iraq and in other hotspot regions.
Once again, this will be a very long term process, not an instasolution.
Now your govt and ours have an almighty mess on our hands and a nation infested with suicide bombers and Islamic fundamentalists
Yep, a mess that has been there and been growing and growing for a very long time left undealt with due to the "ostrich effect".
Now it is being dealt with and will take a lot longer to control than if it had been done at an earlier stage.
Saddam was bugger all threat after sanctions and a good kicking in GW1.
Sanctions were tried and did exactly nothing, zilch. A little hard to have any effect with sanctions when they are not enforced and are being ignored and broken by those who claim to be part of the very enforcement of them. Sanctions are a joke.
Like I say it`s reality , not some "I wish I may, I wish I might" friggen fairy tale.
