[HighWheeler]

"The region is now unstable in a way it never was with Hussein,.."

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Sure.

Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, which provided all that incredible amount of additional stability in the region.

Yup.

[The Old Hoosier]

At their height, these guys managed to kill something like 12 German civilians. There is no record of a single American soldier being killed by post-war Nazi insurgents in Germany.

The Gulf War had ended 10 years ago by the time we went in there. If you want to talk stability, which do you think would be more chaotic -- to just give up a tiny nation, or to create the conditions for a civil war in a big country like Iraq?