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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (652031)4/19/2012 10:55:59 PM
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>> There are 4400 Americans that died forever and ever in Iraq......for what?

Where to start.

To bring an end to a brutal dictatorship that had killed, on average, 5,000 persons per month for decades. To bring about freedom in the center of a region where it is nonexistent, with the expectation that it would trigger uprisings against dictators throughout the region (wow; places like Iran, Egypt, Syria, Libya, and others -- too bad we had an idiot for a president when the uprisings occurred who didn't know what to do with it!). To end a war that started when Saddam invaded Kuwait and which continued on, in very low grade fashion, for the eight years of the Clinton presidency. To put an end to a dictator funding terrorist attacks against Israel and providing safe harbor for other terrorists who chose Iraq as a training ground. And to end a persistent threat of WMD development from someone who not only had developed them, but planned to continue developing them and who posed a threat to everyone in the region. And to protect US national interests in stability of energy prices.

I can think of no better reasons for the United States to go to war, after doing everything reasonably possible to avoid it, which we did.
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