Removing Saddam has been disastrous for the entire region. His removal for payback for Scuds fired on Israel in the first war; nothing to do with US or regional security.
The whole disaster that was the so-called “Arab Spring” opened my eyes to the fact that trying to bring Democracy to the Arabs was a fool’s errand, and that despots like Saddam, while they are bad guys, are par for the course for the Arab world, just as the case with Assad.....But the alternatives are even worse.
um yeah sure
invading a neighboring state over disputed historical territory claims and totally blowing off any shred of credibilty still retained by the UN was certainly not destabilizing to regional security
and the Saudis and other Gulf States (upon whom most of the free world, NOT just the US, depends for energy, and whose oilfields and coastal ports could have also been claimed by Saddam) were quite OK with it - surely Saddam’s invasion wouldn’t have set any precedent for other rogue states if it had not been challenged
major sarc
The SCUD statement (blame the Jooooos) is one of the dumbest accusations I’ve heard since 1992