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To: ManyMoose who wrote (63746)5/6/2008 2:43:20 PM
From: biotech_bull  Respond to of 542233
 
If we'd gone after Saddam then, the Iraq War would have been moot

Possible but one could also make the argument (as I did earlier on this thread) this war in Iraq confirms that the most brilliant strategic move of the first Gulf war was withdrawing after reaching the outskirts of Baghdad.

It's hard to predict the long term effects of coups, as we are still learning after ousting Mossadegh in Iran



To: ManyMoose who wrote (63746)5/6/2008 4:56:16 PM
From: Alastair McIntosh  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 542233
 
The Gulf War was the way to go, but there too we stopped before the job was done.

This analysis from the Sec. of Defense at the time thought that it would have been a quagmire had the U.S. continued to Baghdad in the first Gulf War.

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