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Originally Posted by subchaser12
Removal of Saddam Hussein from power was an Israeli strategic objective, not an American one.
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Look.
regardless of who's "objective" it was.
You need to consider this.
Leadership is a burden.
anyone who has ever been in a command position in a situation which is a matter of life and death, or has the potential to alter another persons life permanently will tell you...
Its hard... it's trying... it's difficult... it's demanding.
So lets say
you are the president of the United States of America in late 2001.
you are commander in Chief of the U.S. Military, charged with a major responsibility of protecting the citizens of the USA from foreign aggression and harm.
Lets also say that as President of the United States, your sitting in your office and it has only been a matter of weeks since your nation experienced the
worst attack on its own soil since Pearl Harbor.
Your intelligence agency walks into your office and hands you and your advisory staff a dossier from a collaborative intelligence collecting effort from the combined national cooperation of France, Italy, Germany and your own United States.
You open the dossier and the synopsis is as follows;
"Throughout our nine year study of this case through traditional intelligence gathering methods, it is our opinion that Iraq currently possesses nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, or is developing such weapns. AND - their government headed by Saddam Heussien, has displayed intent to sell these weapons to terrorits organizations throughout the world."
everyone at the long conference table finishes the discussion and looks at
YOU.
"Mr. President... what should we do?"
well mr. president?