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Quote by: rdnor Yes yes I know . Saddam was just an aging dictator and his sons were little boy scouts. |
No one is saying they were boyscouts, rdnor. The world is full of horrible, vicious dictators whose countries we have yet to invade. What we're saying is that, as vile as Saddam may have been, he was not attacking anyone, was not mobilizing to attack anyone, was not threatening anyone, and his military, after war with Iran, Desert Storm and 12 years of sanctions, was a shambles, and he had, in fact, no weapons of mass destruction , nor the means to create them.
So unless you're suggesting that America has the right to invade any sovereign nation we want, simply because their leader is an evil dictator who likes to stick his tongue out as us, then what's your point?
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Quote by: rdnor For people that were never there you sure seem to be informed. |
If you're referring to American soldiers on the ground in Iraq, since apparently
90% of them believe we invaded Iraq in retaliation for Saddam's role in 9/11, then it would appear that, yes, I am vastly more informed than they are.
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Quote by: rdnor If He had no weapons , why did he impede the UN inspectors and VIOLATE all those UN resolutions ? |
No.1 -- there's no IF about it. Saddam had no weapons, nor the means to produce them.
No.2 -- we now know that Saddam was simultaneously trying to convince the West that he didn't have weapons while remaining coy enough about it to
keep Iran from knowing for sure whether he was armed or not and thus off his back.
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Quote by: rdnor FYI , Bush does many things that I do not like and will not get into now . After 9/11 the gloves came off , like it or not. END . |
But Iraq had
nothing to do with 9/11. Are you actually suggesting that the United States has the right, if attacked, to invade and overthrow any country we happen to have a grudge against, whether or not they were involved in any way with the attack on us?
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See how it works, rdnor? The key to seeming to be informed is to actually be informed.
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