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To: WilliamIII
You sound like one of those people who think Iraq was better off with Saddam in charge and Bush committed war crimes because he didn't get UN permission.

Nothing but anti-American commie BS.

25 posted on 09/12/2013 10:29:58 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

you want a US war in Syria, don’t you? Just like Kerry and Obama. Thank God most Americans strongly disagree


26 posted on 09/12/2013 10:36:06 PM PDT by WilliamIII
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To: Tailgunner Joe; WilliamIII
Gulf War One was a mistake. It was idealistic to free an absolute monarchy from a dictatorship

The Saudis played us and we fell for it.

What was the result? We had boots on the ground in Saudi Arabia and that was viewed as haram (evil) / declaration of war on Islam by Bin Laden. Thanks to our knocking off Saddam, the Christian population in Iraq, which dates back to the Apostles, reduced from 2 million to 400,000 and dropping. Thanks to our knocking off Saddam, there is now a pro-Iran government

What would have happened if Gulf war one never happend?

Saddam was brutal but he was secular and he despised Sunni jihadis just as much as he despised Persians (he compared Persians to flies)

He wanted Kuwait to get more money to fight Iran

If Saddam kept Kuwait, he would get more money and also leverage against Saudi Arabia and Qatar to give him more money.

That money would have been used to fight another war against Iran and kill more Shia fanatics (he killed quite a lot during the Iran-Iraq war)

Al Qaeda would have focussed on him, just as they did against Ghaddafi and against Saddam later, because alq hates the secular dictators that stand in their way of re-igniting the ummah

Saddam smashing into Iran while crushing Alqaeda and stopping Saudi money from being used to finance terrorists attacking the west sounds like a very good thing -- in fact that would have led to the Ayatollah's being weakened and kicked out of power

Today would have been safer -- and 9/11 would not have happened in the USA (perhaps an attack against Iraq)

69 posted on 09/14/2013 9:00:48 PM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Tailgunner Joe; WilliamIII

On the other hand, Afghanistan was a right war, a correct one that served our interests. The next war after that if we wanted to be serious should have been against Pakistan to grab their nukes and prevent them selling nukes to N Korea, etc. etc.


70 posted on 09/14/2013 9:01:53 PM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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