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True. The foreign relations aspects of the policy of SH are more understandable than Bush ever acknowledged. SH was at serious risk from at least two nations - the US and Iran. He had to try to seem like a hard target to Iran while depending on his former partner (the US) to be rational.You aren't considering all of the conditions and circumstances that existed and weighed on W's decisions at the time before the invasion.
Did you know that while in our custody Saddam admitted to the FBI about intentionally bluffing and misleading the world to believe he possessed WMD's?
Absolutely he did.
His arch enemy Iran was on his border, and yet he wasn't even allowed to move his ground forces around Iraq. One US analyst famously stated that Iran could take southern Iraq with an ice cream truck with a bull horn.
Could Saddam be confident that the US would come to the aid of Iraq if Iran had invaded during that period?
Iraq went to war with Iran at the US behest.
The US even supplied them with a good amount of weapons to get the job done, most notably chemical weapons.
Then the US attacked Iraq, several times.
Then? Imposed sanctions.
Anyone with even the rudimentary knowledge of the history, knows that Iraq had no WMDs.
The US most certainly knew it.
The Bush administration floated the big bad boogeyman supporting Al Qaeda and capable of using chemical/biological/nuclear weapons against the US.
That was a ridiculous assertion.
But it was "good enough" to get us in there.
You aren't considering all of the conditions and circumstances that existed and weighed on W's decisions at the time before the invasion.
Did you know that while in our custody Saddam admitted to the FBI about intentionally bluffing and misleading the world to believe he possessed WMD's?
Absolutely he did.
His arch enemy Iran was on his border, and yet he wasn't even allowed to move his ground forces around Iraq. One US analyst famously stated that Iran could take southern Iraq with an ice cream truck with a bull horn.
Could Saddam be confident that the US would come to the aid of Iraq if Iran had invaded during that period?
Iraq went to war with Iran at the US behest.
The US even supplied them with a good amount of weapons to get the job done, most notably chemical weapons.
Then the US attacked Iraq, several times.
Then? Imposed sanctions.
Anyone with even the rudimentary knowledge of the history, knows that Iraq had no WMDs.
The US most certainly knew it.
The Bush administration floated the big bad boogeyman supporting Al Qaeda and capable of using chemical/biological/nuclear weapons against the US.
That was a ridiculous assertion.
But it was "good enough" to get us in there.
It's the first time to see MODERATOR speaking and sure enough outstanding.Had we never invaded Iraq in the first place none of this would be happening right now.
How is Hitler in comparison with Saddam Houssin?YES!! HAD WE NOT JOINED THE FIGHT AGAINST HITLER WE MIGHT BE SPEAKING GERMAN AND KILLING JEWS!!! Good thinking!
My point was that Iraq had legitimate national security concerns about Iran, especially given Iraq's highly weakened condition and the military restrictions we had in place.You think you have the answers but you can't answer this one question.
Why DIDN'T Iran attack Iraq after their war if they knew Saddam was bluffing about having WMD's?
John McCain was right about us staying in Iraq 100 years
April 10, 2008
Distorting McCain on "100 years" in Iraq
Here's what McCain actually said:
QUESTIONER: President Bush has talked about our staying in Iraq for 50 years --
McCAIN: Maybe a hundred.
QUESTIONER: Is that -- is that --
McCAIN: We've been in South Korea -- we've been in Japan for 60 years. We've been in South Korea for 50 years or so. That'd be fine with me as long as Americans --
QUESTIONER: So that's your policy?
McCAIN: -- As long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed, then it's fine with me. I hope it would be fine with you if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where Al Qaeda is training, recruiting, and equipping and motivating people every single day.
Distorting McCain on "100 years" in Iraq - Brendan Nyhan
Johnny Mac was right.
The American left wing was wrong.
If we'd left a large enough force to combat the ISIS ajoles in Iraq now we wouldn't have much to be concerned with in Iraq today.
John McCain was right about us staying in Iraq 100 years
April 10, 2008
Distorting McCain on "100 years" in Iraq
Distorting McCain on "100 years" in Iraq - Brendan Nyhan
Johnny Mac was right.
The American left wing was wrong.
If we'd left a large enough force to combat the ISIS ajoles in Iraq now we wouldn't have much to be concerned with in Iraq today.
Putting hundreds of thousands of American troops into the middle of a religious war that has lasted over a thousand years to protect people we don't know and who want us dead.
Just the time we spent already cost over three trillion. And at least another three trillion taking care of young Americans maimed in Iraq.
If right wingnut America only cared about Americans the way the care about suicide bombing Jihadists, this would be a different country.
You are so fucking stupid.
John McCain was right about us staying in Iraq 100 years
April 10, 2008
Distorting McCain on "100 years" in Iraq
Distorting McCain on "100 years" in Iraq - Brendan Nyhan
Johnny Mac was right.
The American left wing was wrong.
If we'd left a large enough force to combat the ISIS ajoles in Iraq now we wouldn't have much to be concerned with in Iraq today.
Putting hundreds of thousands of American troops into the middle of a religious war that has lasted over a thousand years to protect people we don't know and who want us dead.
Just the time we spent already cost over three trillion. And at least another three trillion taking care of young Americans 50 years into the future who were maimed in Iraq.
If right wingnut America only cared about Americans the way they care about suicide bombing Jihadists, this would be a different country.
You are so fucking stupid.
My point was that Iraq had legitimate national security concerns about Iran, especially given Iraq's highly weakened condition and the military restrictions we had in place.You think you have the answers but you can't answer this one question.
Why DIDN'T Iran attack Iraq after their war if they knew Saddam was bluffing about having WMD's?
Your question doesn't address that.
