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The Gulf Wars Revisited: Who exactly benefitted from American removal of Saddam’s Sunnis in Iraq?
Frontpage Mag ^ | 08/14/2020 | Joseph Puder

Posted on 08/14/2020 7:04:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

The clearest lessons from the Gulf Wars are that eliminating Saddam Hussein and his closest clique didn’t necessitate destroying the established order in Iraq. Additionally, Iran, not Iraq, should have been targeted by the U.S. for regime change.

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It sounds like one Neo-Con wet dream being exchanged for another.


21 posted on 08/14/2020 8:57:44 AM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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Blackwater, Kellog Brown and Root, the general who holds the patient on blast resistant HUMVEE glass, and I could go on forever.


22 posted on 08/14/2020 10:02:20 AM PDT by Newbomb Turk
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Neo-conism is a a cross party, "bi"-partisan delusion.

That is if you assume that there are only two partisans, democrats and RINOs.

23 posted on 08/14/2020 11:48:14 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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