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Politics : Sioux Nation
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To: American Spirit who wrote (44969)10/24/2005 2:50:12 PM
From: cirrus  Read Replies (2) of 362477
 
America contained Saddam for more than a decade without loss of life. There is no reason why he could not have been contained for another decade, until the Kurds, Shiites or even some disgrunted Sunnis were strong enough to remove him. There was no compelling national interest to remove Saddam at the time Bush choose to do so.

Obviously the occupation has gone badly. However, the three Iraqi ethnic groups dislike each other and have for centuries. There is no assurance a more carefully prepared plan of occupation and reconstruction would have succeeded in preventing what we are seeing today.

The problem with the Iraq War was not taking out Saddam, that was a good thing.
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