[Hoplite]

I've given you the basis for intevention.

You're simply ignoring it and going with the bodycount straw-man.

When Saddam threatened our oil supply, we confronted him militarily. He hadn't threatened it since and is no longer in a position to do so.

Had he moved against the Kurds in Northern Iraq, we would have intervened - he didn't, so we didn't.

[thoughtomator]

Your claimed basis for intervention is historically inconsistent with US policy. You will find no other time in US history did we intervene in a similar situation.

At the time, I knew that there was a lot of lying going on about the situation. I don't know what country you were in at the time, but in USA, it was clear that much of what we did there was timed to knock relevations of administration scandals out of the news cycle (that this was a Clinton M.O. is incontrovertible).

That you take the Clinton/Clark/Albright line at face value is extremely unusual for a participant on FR. There are a lot of possible motives for our attacks on Serbia, but the ones advanced by the Clinton administration are the least plausible of them.

[thoughtomator]

A little refresher course for your memory