With due respect and I know that reasonable people can differ , let me answer your questions. I think Donald Trump, our president, was right and I will briefly address each point in caps to distinguish your hypothesis from mine.
1.” Saddam Hussein would have become a bigger threat to the region. He had clearly come to the conclusion that the West would not stop him and was acting as such”.YOU HAVE NO CONCEPT OF THE THREAT THAT WAS CREATED BY REMOVING HIM. IT IS CALLED ISIS. THERE WERE ABSOLUTELY NO WMD SO WHAT DID WE INVADE THIS COUNTRY FOR. THERE WAS NO THREAT TO THE UNITED STATE WHATSOEVER.
2. “Iraq would have continued shooting at U.S. and UK planes enforcing UN resolutions. How many times do you allow someone to fire missiles at your aircraft?” DID YOU KNOW THAT OUR IMPOSED “NO FLY ZONE “WAS ILLEGAL AS HELL? IT WAS ABSOLUTELY NOT REPEAT NOT SANCTIONED BY THE UN. IN FACT IT WAS REBUKED AT THE UN. WHAT GIVES US A RIGHT TO IMPOSE A “NO FLY ZONE” OVER A SOVEREIGN COUNTRY? THIS WAS A VIOLATION ON INTERNATIONAL LAW. THE GULF WAR HAD BEEN OVER FOR 14 YEARS !! YOU ARE OK WITH CHINA IMPOSING A NOFLY ZONE OVER THE U.S. AND WE DON’T FIRE MISSILES AT THEM?
3. What about Israel? We do know today that Iraq won’t be attacking Israel or has WMDs to threaten its neighbors. We can thank President Bush for that. ISRAEL?? IRAQ NEVER ATTACKED ISRAEL!. WE BLOW 3 TRILLION DOLLARS 9ENOUGH TO REBUILD THIS COUNTRIES INFRASTRUCTURE) 5000 DEAD SOLDIERS , 40,000 WOUNDED AND MAIMED SOLDIERS ,OVER 300,0OO CIVILIAN IRAQIS SO THAT SOMEDAY SOMEONE WON’T ATTACK ISRAEL? WHO IS NEXT? SAUDI ARABIA?
GOERGE W. BUSH MADE THE GREATEST BLUNDER OF ANY PRESIDENT IN OUR HISTORY FOR WHICH HE TOTALLY PUT THE DEMOCRATS IN THE PRESIDENCY.
"ISRAEL?? IRAQ NEVER ATTACKED ISRAEL!"
Sorry you are so clueless, Wendle.
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1991: Iraqi Scud missiles hit Israel
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/18/newsid_4588000/4588486.stm
Iraq has attacked two Israeli cities with Scud missiles, prompting fears that Israel may be drawn into the Gulf War.
Israel's largest city, Tel Aviv, and Haifa, its main seaport, were hit in the attacks, which began at 0300 local time (0100 GMT), when most residents were asleep.
Reports from Tel Aviv say the air was filled with the wail of sirens and minutes later up to eight missiles streaked in and exploded in balls of flame.
Residents scrambled for protective clothing and gas masks, issued to most of the population before the conflict began. It is the first time Tel Aviv has been hit in the history of the Israel-Arab conflict.
Israel has the strongest military forces of any Middle Eastern country, and has said that any attack by Iraq would bring massive "punishment".
The American President, George Bush, issued an appeal to Israel to hold back from retaliation for the attack.
Allied commanders have been ordered to make special sorties to seek out and destroy Iraqi missile sites and mobile launchers which could threaten Israel, and Mr Bush emphasised his determination to protect Israel from further attack.
Emergency meeting
The Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Shamir, called an emergency meeting of the ministerial defence committee of senior ministers and military officers to decide Israel's response.
After the day-long meeting, the Foreign Minister, David Levy, told journalists no decision had yet been taken on whether to retaliate.
"Israel reserves the right to retaliate in the manner and with the scale and method of its own choosing," he said.
Any Israeli military action could break apart the multi-national coalition against Iraq by provoking the Arab members to withdraw their support.
"ISRAEL?? IRAQ NEVER ATTACKED ISRAEL!"
Sorry you are so clueless, Wendle.
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2 Die as Scuds Hit Tel Aviv,
January 27, 1991
http://articles.latimes.com/1991-01-27/news/mn-315_1_saudi-arabia
Patriots shoot down all but one of seven missiles fired at Israel. The Jewish state holds its fire despite internal pressure to retaliate.
|From Times Staff and Wire Reports
TEL AVIV — Iraq fired a rain of seven Scud missiles into Israel on Friday, and one crashed into a house in Tel Aviv, killing a neighbor next door. But Israel refrained from retaliating despite complaints that allied Scud-killing in Iraq has been too slow.
A barrage of Patriot interceptors blew apart the other six Iraqi Scuds in midair, scattering debris over greater Tel Aviv and near Haifa. Shutters shattered, windows broke and shingles fell on city streets. None of the Scuds carried poison gas. But 66 Israelis were injured, authorities said--most of them slightly.
Baghdad's latest military communique claimed that most allied attacks on Iraq were directed at civilian targets. CNN's Peter Arnett, the last foreign correspondent in Baghdad, said the Iraqis took him to a small town where almost two dozen homes were destroyed in what he was told was an air attack. The Iraqis said 24 civilians were killed in the attack, he reported.
The Scud attack also came as the United States was rushing more Patriots to Israel. The Israeli army said the U.S. missiles would be operational "in a short time."
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is trying to draw Israel into the gulf war in hopes of driving some Arab states out of the anti-Iraq alliance and onto Iraq's side in a war against their traditional enemy, the Jewish state.
Baghdad radio Friday night appealed to Arab officers and soldiers to defect. "Do you not feel proud," the radio said, "to see us stand up against all the Arabs' enemies, not scared or frightened? . . . Then why do you not join us?"
It wasn't clear if the often-jammed and static-filled radio, which was monitored in Nicosia, Cyprus, could be heard in the Saudi desert where Syrian and Egyptian troops are camped.
Opus already?