[Brad from Tennessee]

[What possible gain would the Saudis get from damaging the United States? We were standing between them and Saddam Hussein.]

That is what the war was about—protecting the Saudis, the Gulf oil states and Israel from Saddam Hussein and his marauding army.

[DoughtyOne]

In a round-about way, I agree.

I think Hussein had done himself in by shooting his mouth off. He had been urging terrorists to take out the United States for years. When some did attack, he was out there on the end of the plank all ready to be had.

He wasn’t complying with terms to end the first gulf war. He wasn’t allowing inspectors in. Even the U. N. boys thought he probably had WMDs.

He was paying the families of suicide bombers in Israel $25,000 per. It was natural to think he was either involved, financing, or contributing some way to terrorist activity.

Yes Saudi Arabia, Israel, Kuwait, and other nations in the region were protected by our actions. I agree with that. I’m not sure that was our number one objective.

After 09/11, the bill came due for Hussein shooting off his mouth. That’s my take on it.

[Cronos]

That is what the war was about—protecting the Saudis, the Gulf oil states and Israel from Saddam Hussein and his marauding army.

Yes and I think that:

1. Israel could have handled Saddam
2. BUT the Saudis/Qataris would not have been able to do so

We should have left the peninsular Arabs to their fate.