khayos

The War Crimes of Saddam Hussein

EDIT: What a huge mistake George HW Bush made leaving him in power.

Nikolai

What, then, should we do with our erstwhile "ally" Hosni Mubarak?

Few object to the idea that Hussein is no longer in power. However, the war was not waged to correct that issue, nor should that necessarily be a raison d'etre for US military action. It's a very slippery slope. Many world leaders brutalize their people, but that doesn't mean we should be putting boots in those countries to bring about regime change.

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TBradyOwnsYou

Agreed. HW in my opinion should've finished the job in 91.

chicowalker

Or, if we're going to play world policeman -- which I agree we usually should not do -- we should have a coherent policy addressing that

DarrylS

But it wasn't "politically correct"....

But no matter what Saddam did, it does not justify the efforts and lies of George W.. nothing can make up for the 5K plus lives and the expenditures of 723 billion dollars..

Give me that old time CIA or Mossad any day of the week, their efforts would have been just as effective with a lot less expenditures and casualties..

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Real World

I personally prefer a much more isolationalist foreign policy. We should be worrying more about solving our own problems, and less about everyone else. If he minded our own business more than we do, we'd be better off as a nation. I'd keep foreign afairs to food aid, education, and maybe some reconstruction with respect to farming, bridges, water treatment plants, etc. All the rest is the worlds problem, not ours.

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"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him."
Leo Tolstoy, 1897

TBradyOwnsYou

The CIA had Bin Laden in their sites in 98 (IIRC) and Clinton said no because it wouldn't be politically correct to kill the Saudi Princes who were with him.
I bet those 3000 people who died on Sept 11th would have appreciated a little less political correctness and a lot more ass-kickery.
And Saddam used chemical weapons on his own people during his campaign of genocide... kind of justifies lots of things IMO.
The problem as I see it is that political correctness makes it so nothing can get done. I'll take a lie if it means something gets done.

scout

Let's give equal treatment to other administrations. Bin Laden was also in our armies sites AFTER 911, under the Bush administration.

TBradyOwnsYou

When? And what was our reason for not pulling the trigger? If it was because of political reasons, then my point still stands!

Harry Boy

Exactly, this country's crazy political correctness ***** gets a lot of people in trouble and gets a lot of people hurt.

Sappy Pant Suit Hillary once wanted to change the name "Man Hole Cover" to "Person Hole Cover" thats how the Loon Brain Works.

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