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Originally posted by Mike(dat's me)
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"!
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Mike, we were selling Saddam chemical weapons and military gear in the 80s.
Hmmm, he fires missles at planes in his airspace. Hmmm.
Did he ever say he would attack Americans on US soil?
Did he have any conncections to people who would attack Americans on US soil?
did he have the ability to attack the US?
No.
BTW, I see that you are another product of the apologist right wing media, Fox, the same people who bring us the Trading Spouses show.
I am quite sure that there are people happy in Iraq, and I am happy about that. I'm not happy that we leveled Fallujah and the homes of probably 100,000 people for nothing. I'm not happy about so many innocent dead Iraqui's. And I'm not happy with how we've both strategically and tactically bungled this thing since day 1.
Is Iraq better today? No, will it be in 10 years, most likely. Is that worth the lives of the 1300 plus dead soldiers and over 10,000 wounded? You'll have ask their families.