Looking back:
There is a lesson to learn from Falluja fighting, which is that there was never a chance back in the 1990's that Saddam could have been overthrown by revolutionaries.
He had the money, the power, the 850,00 tons of armament, the loyal Sunnis, the power bases in Falluja and elsewhere.
Eliminate Saddam and his two sons take over.
Eliminate them and the Generals take over. With the same tortures, prisons, and assassinations they had learned to live by.
The government would claim the Mosques as their own sacred ground and use them as bases for fighting, where the general god-fearing public would be reluctant to attack.
Secret tunnels known only to Saddams people and stocked with ammo.
A UN force lead by France in Iraq and playing it safe and slow would have been a disaster.
The wells and oil facilities and docks and bridges were all wired with explosives.
Without our 5 Carriers, air power, cruise missiles and shock and awe treatment their truly would have been huge casualties on both sides.
Now give that SOB another year or two to reinstitute his WMD programs and improve his missiles after the UN inspectors had left and the job becomes ten times more difficult and more costly in casualties.
So tell me, did we and the Iraqi citizens just get lucky,or was there some intelligence at work behind the US actions ?
That GWB stopped Saddam when we did, that the UN was not put in command, that Franks and Rumsfeld were given the green light on the shock and awe treatment, and that Gore was not President ?
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