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Originally posted by Shaun 84 Targa
We invaded a sovereign nation that posed no threat to us.
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Shaun, what I don't understand is how you stand so adamently behind some facts, while you disregard others.
Forget the whole wmd crap for a minute. Back up to the 98-99 time frame (as mentioned earlier), when Iraq routinely denied inspectors access to places, survalince showed trucks leaving facilities before inspectors arrived, yada yada yada.
The UN should have backed thier sanctions then and dealt with Iraq. They did not. Fast forward a year. With a 365 day period there were something like 640 incidents of Iraq targeting UN planes in the No Fly Zone. Each incident was handled differently, but some were missles being launched at the planes.
Is this the NO THREAT you so boldly boast? Hmmm. Iraq needed to be dealt with one way or another, I wish we wouldn't have waited until 9/11. Then these excuses wouldn't be here...
Saddam needed to be removed since the 80's... at least someone had the spine to do it.
And Iraq will be a better place in the end. Three of my troops got back this weekend. I'd relate thier stories to you, but they would be tossed aside as "thats not possible, people aren't happy there"!