Originally posted by miko2d
Who cares - unless he attacks US, Canada or Mexico or one of NATO countries he can do whatever he wants. He is in Russia's backyard. China is right there, India, Israel. Let them take care of their crap. You can buy a ticket and join Kurdish resistance any day.
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So what exactly was 9-11 to you? What exactly does terrorism mean to you? Is it an attack? How about this. Al Queida attacked the US on 9-11. Al Queida is funded by (amongst others) Iraq. Does this mean that Iraq shares part of the guilt?
Even if it was any of our concern, it is still better than his neighbours that we protect from him. How about Pakistan? Afghanistan? Much democracy there since we liberated them?
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Who cares about democracy in these countries? Do you really think that Iraq or Libya are democracies just because they hold "elections"? Look at it this way, what countries have sworn to fight against Israel and the US?
Not as much as Iran and Saudis & Co. And at the time we invaded him in 91 russa was a big terrorism supporter too.
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Uh, would that matter? Id say Iran and Iraq are funding roughly an equal amount of terrorist organizations, they are just funding different ones. As for the Saudis, name a couple that the Saudi GOVERNMENT is funding will ya.
He is surrounded by medieval religious militant states who all hate him - who said those weapons were against us? I do not see you calling to attack Pakistan or India or Israel for the same reason.
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Nukes doesnt scare me as much as B&C does. Pakistan and India should be stripped of their nukes though, because they are all insane. Israel has proven that they can handle nukes. Pop quiz, what would happen if you gave one nuke to Saddam?
Everybody named Israel as his main enamy - including Europe and more than half americans. As for US, we invaded them, whad did you expect?
I bet if we appologised and offered restitutions - or even assurance that he can take back Kuwait and Saudi, he would revert to being our best friend.
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No one in Europe (except arab immigrants) has named Israel their enemy. Wishful thinking perhaps? So anyway...why did the US invade Iraq now again? And the US were far from alone you know...France was there too, so was the UK, Canada, etc etc.
BS. Russians could not do that, germans could not do that. He does not need to do that - plenty of our "friends" are more eager than him.
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Back in the Soviet Union era, there was a system known as MAD in place. Might have heard about it, "Mutual Assured Destruction" proved to work pretty well. Hint, MAD does not work against Moslem countries. As for Germany, that was long ago, very long ago.
BS. If he uses it against Saudis or Quwait, I do not care. Unless they apply to join NATO we do not have to protect them.
He will not attack Israel first since that would mean complete obliteration of Iraq (among other things). And he is not a religious fanatic willing to die.
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Wishful thinking. As I said before, he would not be stupid enough to send a scud painted in Iraqi colors. But what happens when the first outbreak of smallpox occurs in Chicago? He is just as guilty as if he had sent it with a scud, but suddenly it gets complicated huh?
I suspect that Saudis will beat him to that.
We cannot stop everyone who wants to blow us up - our security is nonexistant, our borders are open, our society is vulnerable. The safest way for us would be to mind our own business and stop pissing people off. They have anough problem of their own to worry about us.
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Why would the Saudis want to do that, when the US is pretty much acting like the Saudi defence forces? And you are totally wrong when you say that the safest thing for you to do would be to stop pissing people off. If you cave in to one terrorist organization and their demands, the next one will come along. Back down now, and it will get worse, not better. Too bad you wont realize that. And (for some reason) you wont realize that the US will never abandon Israel either. Your pacifist dream aint gonna happen. Live with it.
Did we defeat Soviet Union? No. And where are they? Right - our friends now.
How about China? Should we knock off their head of state?
How about Duch? Those legalised pot. Should we save them and stop bad influence on US?
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Uh..Id say the SU was defeated. China is a sick diddlying country with no respect whatsoever for human rights. So yeah, you probably should knock off the commies there. As for the Dutch, well, different story, better leave them alone.
Here is the main and real question:
Tell me, would you be calling for the same invasion if Iraq had never invaded Kuwait? Because I cannot see how his claim to Kuwait is linked to all those bad things.
If he was our friend and client before invasion of Kuwait and if most americans do not give a damn about Kuwait, what did change? Could it be that we declared ourselves his enemy, not the other way around?
If Iraq behaved the same way it is now, you bet. Actually it is very fortunate that they did invade Kuweit. If not, Saddam would have had nukes by now.
