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To: KyrosL who wrote (228172)	4/22/2007 12:17:34 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I happen to think Bush senior's decision was probably correct. Iraq was a very hard country to hold together, and anyone who knew anything about it would have known that. Saddam killed people usually after uprisings- it was even hard for Saddam to hold the country together, but he did it. That doesn't make it "right", but it makes him useful to the US if we want stability there- and I think that's one reason why we're there, right? I think the way to play Saddam's various campaigns against rebellious elements in his country was to promote sanctions rather than to try to remove the man. If we had removed Saddam under Bush 1, we would have had the civil war earlier. Not a fabulously attractive option, imo.

To: KyrosL who wrote (228172)	4/22/2007 12:44:51 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Bush I's idiotic encouragement of the Shiite rebellion coupled with the idiotic military decision to let Saddam have armed helicopters and the idiotic Bush decision to not help the Shiites while Saddam massacred them led to at least two ugly consequences: 1. It made Paul Wolfowitz aghast and he pushed for, egads, the Iraq war although he should have pushed to never have another Bushie in office. 2. It makes the Shiites not trust the US, especially a Bush, to this day. The repercussions of that idiotic decision making have been huge. I cannot even imagine how bad the repercussions of the multitude of bad decisions Bush II has made in Iraq might be. It's frightening.