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Quote by: BobbyO  I understand the argument that the OBL's of the world were just minding their own business (except for the occasional office tower destruction, and attack upon embassies and we can't get to excited about that, eh?) and the USA just stuck a stick in a hornets nest and got what it deserved (except that nobody says that an OBL or a Saddam stuck THEIR stick in a hornet's nest and got what they deserved). |
Set aside for a moment that Saddam was well contained and threat to no one outside of Iraq. In my view, if after 9/11 Bush and Co. had asked the world to support America in tracking down OBL and bringing him to justice, bin Laden would be in a prison now and Al Qaeda would be no more. Moreover, much of the Muslim world would have respected America's restraint and just behavior. But using 9/11 as a pretext to invade Iraq and slaughter hundreds of thousands of innocent people, engage in brutal torture, murder, and rape ...
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