I'm sceptical about any real danger Saddam posed to us. But this is Bush's war and he was going to go ahead with it anyway, so Godspeed and let's just hope Saddam and any nasty weapons he might have are destroyed ASAP with minimal casualties. So far so good I guess though things could get nasty any time.
On the WMD's I believe Bushies exaggerated the danger of them, especially the nuclear threat, in an effort to get the American opinion behind them. I dont think Bush cares much about foreign opinion.
A lot of people in the US have been fooled into thinking Saddam is the root of all evil, even behind 9-11, but he's just a medium threat, not a large one. Just look how easy this war has been so far. His Republican Guard are just to guard him. And the rest of his forces are less than one third what they were in 1991, ill-fed and equipped. etc.
That whole region of the world has potential threats to us so long as we're hooked on their oil. No one country is any more dangerous than another because terrorism is not a national thing, it's international. My guess is if we got onto hydrogen and stopped buying their oil terrorism from there would disappear. But in the meantime we have to be very vigilant.
Bush chose Saddam because of the oil, his father's failure to take him out and the fact that Saddam is an easy boogey man to sell the American people. It really is a personal war for Bush, no doubt. Greater threats lie elsewhere, including North Korea and certain Saudi nationals who fund terrorists IMHO.
Mainly these terrorist types are a threat to Israel. Despite 9-11, I dont see anyone but as small Al Qaida type cell trying anything major against the US mainland. And that cell could come from anywhere and have nothing to do with Saddam. The world has thankfully gotten a lot smaller for those cells. They're still hiding in Pakistan and Afghanistan many of them, and hopefully they'll soon be all caught in paramilitary police and intelligence actions. Iraq is now one less place to hide, but I doubt many of them would want to hide there in the first place with Saddam's secular government. |
