2. We withdraw, and the Iranians, Turks, Syrians invade, to partition the country. They fight each other, and the various armed Iraqi groups, endlessly.
And you think these rival factions don't know that too??
Do you think they know what might await them if the US pulls out?
Right now, the various parties are willing to make trouble until the US pays attention to them and doles out the dinero to those leaders directing these dissidents (or acknowledges their position of power).
But they don't want the US to leave anymore than they want the Baathists to return.
We stay. 5 years from now, 500,000 U.S. troops are barely keeping a lid on a nationalist guerrilla uprising. One million (more) die before we give up and go home.
Supplied by whom? Syria? Saudi Arabia? The Turks? Hardly... Syria doesn't have the money, and the others have no interest in seeing the Shiites in power.
Saddam really did have WMD. And he really did move them into an adjacent nation. And then into a container on a cargo ship that goes to New York. And goes bang. We do the "3 eyes for an eye" thing.
Hello??!! A loose cell of militant muslims attempted to kill 50,000 Americans on 9/11. Had they attacked 1-2 hours later, they would have likely succeeded in killing FAR MORE than 3,000.
Can you imagine it?? 25,000 to 50,000 people DEAD.. all from one attack??
And there was no guarantee that Saddam wouldn't have built WMDs for those terrorists. After all, we found several prominent terrorist leaders in Baghdad, didn't we?
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