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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence
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To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (692)9/12/2001 4:50:21 PM
From: George Papadopoulos  Read Replies (1) of 27666
 
>The moral of the article as I read it seems to be we should have ruthlessly eliminated Hussein in the first place so that a continued embargo was not necessary.

It's easy to say now in hindsight about that decision. At the time, doing what you said would:
have a lot more US casualties
finding a comparable strong leader to keep the Iraqis together before the Iranians made toast out of all of them and got a hold of the oil supplies
you got a whole bunch of Kurds in the north endlessly fighting each other
you got a whole bunch of Shiite Muslims in the south in their own agendas
you got the allies Saudis and Kuwaitis with their own agendas
you don't mean occupying Iraq, do you? [I hope not]

Evil Sadam [remember he was an ally before, another friend turned Satan]invaded, he was kicked out of Kuwait, oil supplies back to being safe for American corporations to ensure endless supply of Prostitution campaigns to the Republican (mostly) coffers (or war chests if you prefer) and he is still there to provide a counter weight to the Iranians, provide a pretext for American pilots to do practice bombing raids on live targets for eleven years and provide forces on the ground to control any situation (nothing better than establishing facts on the ground and ask questions later, ask Sharon)
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