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Originally posted by Hugh R
I say we get out and just let the locals fight it out. I guess we should have left Saddam in power, is that what your saying Techwennie? I say we quit giving money to Isreal, Mexico, Egypt, all those African countries, and everyone else. Fu(k them all! When was the last time they did anything for us?
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Well, Hugh, since you asked, yes, I think we should have left Saddam in power. He was effectively the 'mayor of Baghdad.' He hadn't that much influence outside the capital. We put him in power. We kept him in power. We gave him weapons to hold off Iran. We greenlighted his move into Kuwait, then we de-fanged him thoroughly in the Gulf War. The we came back later, citing things he did *before* the Gulf War as rationale for attacking in 2003. Bogus.
There are so many other bad actors out there who are better candidates for 'regime change' than Saddam was.
Now, no matter if we're out next year or 10 years from now, Iraq will be a bloody mess.
I'm no isolationist. our money can do good in some of those places you mention. But just throwing money at a problem often makes it worse -- just look what happened with "Oil for Food."