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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
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Originally Posted by P_Funk
You know its so ironic. There was no Al Qeida in Iraq until the US invaded. An American invasion is a magnet for them. So to say that you can't leave because your very presense has created a terrorist situation is... the saddest irony.
You had to get rid of Saddam cause he was a threat to the US. Now you can't leave because the absense of Saddam is a threat to the US.
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I don't buy your argument. Saddam was a worse threat than any terrorists running around. He has already sent his hit squads to try and assasinate our ex presidents, and I think he had the capability to do a ton more harm to the world than what any two bit terrorists could do.
So in summary, we made the right move. Saddam was a terrorist x 1,000,000,000,000 in capability.
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I don't think you can call Saddam a worse threat than global terrorism in general. There is no proof he had imminent plans to do anything. And if by taking out Saddam you effectively revitalized Al Quada by giving them a new war from which to draw recruits and polarize the Middle East then... one threat leads to a larger one. Is that ultimately a better result?
And though I would agree that Saddam was a man that should have been somehow dealt with, the way that things have ended up I would not say the right decision was made. It hasn't turned out better for the Iraqis, for the Middle East, or for the US. The US has more enemies as a result. Saddam should have been eliminated certainly, somehow. But a righteous cause does not justify any and all means, and certainly not the most beliggerent and ineffective ones: ie invasion and occupation.
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PS. Not to mention, he had WMD's and a ton of them.
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Don't give me that. I know AL has her thread bringing that back, but honestly. You're trying to make a square peg fit here. And nevertheless he didn't have long range ICBMs and he didn't have functional weapons of that nature either. Intent to create WMDs is not a justification for a war that couldn't be delayed by a month, as it was said back in 03.
The rush to war is precisely what caused this situation to occur.