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To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (4651)4/20/1999 12:40:00 PM
From: Stormweaver  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 17770
 
>> So, tell us what hundreds of US soldiers died for in the 1991
>> Gulf War?

I just explained that to you ? OIL, beating down a megalomaniac bent on destroying Israel and the west, and saving Kuwait. I think those reasons are good enough don't you ? The job was done well. We now have a manageable petty dictator that controls almost nothing.

Killing Saddam or having the U.S. setup a protectorate in Iraq would have driven the muslims in the world insane; not to mention violate U.S. foreign policy of not assasinating world leaders.