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Politics : Mainstream Politics and Economics

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To: RMF who wrote (49299)7/25/2013 3:05:26 AM
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>> So, you are saying there would have been LESS support in 1992 for going into Baghdad than there was in 2003 when we went in there TOTALLY ALONE?????

We didn't go totally alone. There were more than 40 countries involved.

But my reference to "no support" was talking about the United States. We had gone there with the specific task to remove Saddam from Kuwait. That had been done. The decision was made, correctly given the facts as they stood, to leave Saddam in power under the terms of the cease fire agreement. The people on the Left in the US would have raised hell if Bush had gone beyond that by even a small amount (hell, you complained about the "Highway of Death" where we actually took out forces as they were said to have been retreating).

Bush made the right decision at the time. But he likely expected that Saddams feet would be held to the fire by his successor.

>> inode, you have to present SOME logic for your conclusions and you have been a COMPLETE failure in doing so.

I am pretty consistent about providing my rationale. But since it doesn't agree with your own, you seem to be unable to process it.
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