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.
Look, you may be happy with the removal of saddam...and I could even agree with that. the process however is a HUGE issue...if the prez can lie, distort, exagerate and take the nation to war that, what are the limits of his power? It's the process...get it?
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.
oh please...keeping this guy in a box for the next 100 years would have been far easier than losing lives over a charade...
From a US perspective, things are certainly better now, than before the war.
I don't know how you know that. Scenario...Iraq descends into a civil war, in which the Shia make a violent grab for power, because the US cannot/will not deliver the kind of political solutions that give them the majority they think they deserve...conversely, the US does give them that power, and the kurds and sunni escalate their revolt...in other words hostility breaks out in the country...what options does America have...do we stay and fight it out, on whose side, at what cost (lives of course)? The Iraq mess is just beginning to unfold for you to say that we or they are better off.
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