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I guess you didn’t know that Tripoli was in Northern Africa.

Thanks.

If that nation has started wars with two different neighbors
and has attacked two others, and is posturing despite
sanctions on how he can use his troops and aircraft, then sure,
it might be warranted to remove him, if the international
community agrees, and the U. S. Congress does as well.

And if our nation has just been viciously attacked, it’s
not going to be all that hard to get permission.

Hussein started a war with Iran and Kuwait. With Iran there
were anywhere from 250 thousand to one million casualties.
Claims and revisions have made it nearly impossible to tell
for sure.

Hussein was forbidden to move his troops up to the borders
of other nations, and he was given specific instruction on
where his helicopters could go. He could still operate in
his own nation to quell unrest, so we didn’t hamper him in
that regard.

He moved troops up to his border with neighbors and flew
his aircraft outside the prescribed zone.

Since our being in Iraq, there hasn’t been any trouble at
all with the current leadership.

The other nations in the region are no longer in danger
from Iraq.

We take those actions so the Saudis and other nations
don’t develop their own large army, which would lead to
destabilization of the region. We also do that so we
and Israel won’t have to fight them at some point.