Al Re...What you don't realize is that, while you are squarely convinced that it was the right thing to do, there are people on the fence on this topic.
Of course there are. There are people on different sides of the fence, 100% of the time on every social issue. GW was elected president, and he was given the duty to decide, and he decided. Now, based on new information, people want to say the decision was wrong. I say that even now, the decision to go remove Saddam, WMD or no WMD, was a no brainer. We couldn't take the risk that Saddam would amend his ways, and Ramsey Clark and OBL made sure we couldn't keep up with the sanctions.
That's part of the problem. Saner people, nations, the UN majority, thought that it could be done and should be done...
Of course they thought that. They were being bribed millions of dollars by Saddam to think that. In addition, they were the main countries, illegally selling goods in defiance of the sanctions. It was to their benefit to make the US look bad, while they could look like the peacemakers, when in fact it was just a ruse to make money.
indeed results show that they were right.
The results so far, only show that Saddam didn't have an active WMD programs going, or WMD themselves at the start of the war. The results do not, nor will they ever show, that Saddam wouldn't have started the programs once the sanctions were ended, and the results don't show that the US could have kept up the sanctions, at a reasonable cost.
Your speak as though we have the situation in hand. As it is now, the outcome in Iraq is anything but certain, given the political and tangible power of the theocratic majority, further contrasted with the regional interests of the remaining minority groups.
From a US perspective, things are certainly better now, than before the war. Saddam is gone, and so are the concerns everybody had over WMD. In addition the sanctions have ended. Are things shaping up exactly as we want them in Iraq, no. Will they end up eventually better than they were under Saddam, absolutely. Will the changes in Iraq, lead Iraq and the rest of the ME into prosperity in the future. I don't know. In many ways, the war wasn't climatic enough to force changes; so the outcome will be in limbo until the forces for change overcome the resistance, to stay the same. |
