“What’s the difference dead is dead.”
Oh, so now nothing else you said before matters? Okay, let’s talk about the dead. How many more millions would die if ISIS were left in charge of Iraq for as many years as Hussein was? One million? Five? Ten? Compared to ISIS, Hussein was a piker except for the war with Iran. ISIS will kill as many people as humanly possible. Hussein only killed as many people as his twisted mind viewed as necessary.
“The difference between Bathist political philosophy and islamist religious philosophy is irrelevant to those who bear the brunt of the violence.”
Absolutely true. . . except for one thing. Islamist philosophy necessitates the killing or oppression of billions of people in this world. Bathist political philosophy doesn’t. The Bathist party had Christian members. How many Christians are members of ISIS? Oh, that’s right! That’s IMPOSSIBLE.
“Hussein used rape rooms, torture cells and brutal killing techniques all aimed to control and manipulate the populous.”
True. And he was still a piker compared to ISIS.
“No different than those used by ISIS. He simply did it for a more secular power than the religious ISIS.”
ISIS is raping women by the hundreds. ISIS is marrying off and raping 8 year old girls to legitimize those rapes. Did Hussein do that? Nope.
Hussein was a boy scout compared to ISIS.
Who cares. Hussein is dead. We killed him. We can’t dig him up and reinstate him as dictator no matter how much you would love to do so. It is useless and ascinine to re-argue as to whether we should have fought in Iraq or not. We did. We succeeded. We Won.
We did so amazingly conquering a vast country with a million man standing army with losses of less than 5,000 in six years fighting. Damn the allies lost 120,000 men during the first six weeks of the Normandy invasion. Germany lost 120,000. What the U.S Millitary did was close to a miracle, all while minimalising true civilian cassualties.
Why would we not keep Iraq, just like we kept Japan and Western Europe as our trading partners. The reason why we have had no problems with Germany and Japan is because WE NEVER LEFT! We are still there.
Obama decided that he didn’t like victory, so he left.
Don’t kid yourself, had we pulled a Wilson and beet feet back to the U.S fer WW II like we did after WW I Germany would have regrouped and tried again.
That was their nature. That was Europe’s nature since the end of the Pax Romana. Same with Japan. They would have had no problem having at Korea and China again in ten years had we not stayed.
We are going to have to go back. The jug eared idiot just signed the death warrants of thousands more U.S. troops and hundreds of thousands more Arab Iraqis because he is a political and military novice. He is the worst kind of leader.
We once again have shown our utter fecklessness and stupidity on the World stage. This time in the guise of a half black moron.