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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: geode00 who wrote (217083)2/9/2007 8:22:44 AM
From: Sam  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
You aren't taking into account that Saddam is part of the tribal nexus of Iraq, Bush is not. Which is to say, cultural differences. Or, in another vernacular, one was part of the neighborhood, the other was an outsider who knew nothing about it, had no connections or respect.

I have no time right now to elaborate, but to try to be brief about it--the only way to have truly "pacified" Iraq would have been to turn it to rubble in the same way that Germany and Japan were turned to rubble. Otherwise, all the ethnic tensions would flare up, throw in the possibility of enormous oil wealth for the victors, and the ubiquity of weapons-and not just handgun type weapons either--and you have a situation that would be likely to explode if a little match--the US invasion and overthrow of the existing regime--is thrown in.
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