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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (729585)7/29/2013 7:08:30 AM
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At the point where we became aware, the Iraqi sanctions were designed to target the death of innocents and were effectively accomplishing that end, we were bound morally to take a stand against them.

I was outspoken in that regard myself. It is nothing short of a criminal sin to target innocents in order to create some secondary harmful effect on your true enemy. I remember supporting the idea that if your enemy is Saddam then that is who your direct target should be. When the regime fell and Saddam was captured, our justification for those operations was complete IMO. Bush was right to declare "mission accomplished." It was so unpopular however, that we got sucked into years of nation building, rather than watch the inevitable civil war between the Sunis and Shiites and all the subgroups of Iraq, which in retrospect leaves me wondering about our role in the entire Middle Eastern revolution.
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