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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (714353)	11/21/2005 12:35:02 PM
From: Geoff Altman	Read Replies (1) of 769667

And lastly, removing Saddam was a blunder. He was a local bully; he tried to bully Kuwait, he reigned in Iran, he provided the regional stability. He became that way because he misread the encouragement that the US provided him in the 70s and 80s. Presidents Bush Sr. and Clinton timed him out and sent him to the corner of the room. Bush Jr. should have kept it that way and slowly brought him back to our fold. But he was removed forcibly and now the US has to dig in there because of fear of instability. IMO here, you're completely missing an important historical fact that's been proven over and over again. Dictators/theocrats/kings care little for benevolent rule. They're main concern is directed at anything that threatens their own rule. This was brought to the forefront with Saddam only because he was so crude and unbalanced to flaunt this approach to the entire world. The Iraqi/Iranian conflict wasn't about reigning in Iran in order to stabilize the region. It was about Saddam feeling threatened by the Iranian Shia, no more, no less. He had to go to war in order to stay in power....an that was his only concern.

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