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Politics : High Tolerance Plasticity
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To: Bruce L who wrote (21836)10/12/2004 6:34:27 PM
From: TigerPaw   of 23153
 
Actually I think I was thinking Qusay Hussein.
They always get mentioned in pairs like Mary-Kate and Ashley.
It is my understanding that the younger brother was being groomed to take over from Saddam since the older one was too crazy.

at the time of the invasion Saddam was "in striking distance" of breaking the sanctions?
I think Saddam was trying to follow a similar path to Khadaffi of Libya. Of course he wanted sanctions lifted and was willing to submit to inspections, restrictions, reparations and whatever else might put him back on the path to being Rumsfeld's friend.

while he HAD in late 2002 allowed the UN inspectors back in, it had only been in response to a massive military buildup.
Saddam began complying when there was a credible threat. That was the reason for voting the president authorization to make a credible threat. It could have been done earlier, but in reality the threat and the inspections were not very important because Saddam was already in a box, had already destroyed his weapons, and it was obvious to all but maybe Cheney that he was weak and getting weaker. Sure, it seemed important in 2002 when Rove applied enough advertising to the issue, but it really wasn't. There were much bigger fish to fry elsewhere.

How do you justify leaving the Iraqi People in Saddam's clutches?
The same way that Burma's people are left in dictatorship. If we are going to liberate all of the oppressed then that goal should be debated up front.

invasion only made matters worse
Iraq is on it's way to being the kind of failed state where terrorism thrives. It may already be at that state. That is a much worse situation than for us and for the Iraqis.
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