Deposing Saddam was the start of dominoes falling..Iraq then Egypt, then Yemen, then Libya and now Syria.
If one is thinking strategically, North Korea is threatening to send nuclear laden missiles to United States. Saddam never threatened to attack US. Iran calls United States the great Satan. Saddam was not interested in destroying United States. Saddam was keeping the jihadists under control with an iron fist. By your logic, why we do not depose the N. Korean dictator who is directly threatening us?
What was the point in removing Saddam from Kuwait? Saddam was not going to drink Kuwaiti oil. What difference does it make (to borrow Hilliary’s phrase) if we buy oil from Kuwaiti sheikhs or Iraqi dictators?
This mis-adventure in middle-east wars has cost us TRILLIONS with BORROWED money from China, and thousands of young American soldiers killed or maimed. We have wounded veterans committing suicide and receiving bad health care. Only fools indulge in foreign wars with BORROWED money. Especially when totally unnecessary.
“Deposing Saddam was the start of dominoes falling..Iraq then Egypt, then Yemen, then Libya and now Syria.”
It seems to me that Rotten Cankles and Obunghole are responsible for those others. I’ve seen the domino effect, and it didn’t look like that.
“Saddam never threatened to attack US.”
You don’t remember the terrorist training camps he operated? The UN sanctions repeatedly violated? The way he was deceiving UN oversight of his nuclear program?
“Saddam was not interested in destroying United States. Saddam was keeping the jihadists under control with an iron fist.”
I don’t know what your sources are for that.
“By your logic, why we do not depose the N. Korean dictator who is directly threatening us?”
Because of what the Chinese did the last time US troops were on the Yalu. IOW, cowardice.
“What was the point in removing Saddam from Kuwait?”
All other things being equal, opposing evil is usually the right thing to do. Further, he had his eye on Saudi Arabia.
“What difference does it make (to borrow Hilliary’s phrase) if we buy oil from Kuwaiti sheikhs or Iraqi dictators?”
Really? Morality just doesn’t enter into it? You would have us stand by while the strong ravage the weak, and then buy the oil they stole? We have laws against receiving stolen property because it is morally wrong.
“This mis-adventure in middle-east wars has cost us TRILLIONS with BORROWED money from China, and thousands of young American soldiers killed or maimed.”
I did say we should have come home after Saddam was dead.
“We have wounded veterans committing suicide and receiving bad health care.”
Tell me about it. If I didn’t have family, I would get to know some heroin addicts so I would have access to pain relief.
“Only fools indulge in foreign wars with BORROWED money.”
Sometimes it’s necessary.
“Especially when totally unnecessary.”
There are a couple of ways to look at it.
1. It was a bad idea to do it.
2. It was a bad idea to screw it up.
After the chair-warmers in Washington goon everything up with their arrogance and ignorance, it seems to look to a lot of people as though a thing shouldn’t have been done. Sometimes the problem was not in doing it, but in doing it wrong.