Quote:Whether or not WMDs existed in Iraq is beside the point. Saddam Hussein was not responsible for 9/11, and most certainly was not an imminent threat to the US. They could not even fly military aircraft in their own airspace. The billions spent waging the war in Iraq, the thousands of women and men we lost, the hundreds of thousands of innocent dead Iraqis, the lack of planning for a postwar Iraq and last, but certainly not least, the current mess in Iraq all point to the fact that the war in Iraq was very much a failure.

 

Nobody said that Saddam Hussein was responsible for what happened on 9/11.  Here are the facts.

 

1.  Saddam Hussein was using WMD on his own people and committing genocide.  The genocide thing is the same thing that Kim Jong Il was doing to his own people in Korea.  Were we wrong to get involved in that conflict?

 

2.  Saddam Hussein had previously invaded another country, thus destabilizing the region and threatening not only our supply of oil, but supplies to the rest of the world.

 

3.  The current mess in Iraq is a result of not following plans in the country once Saddam Hussein was removed.  The "bring our boys home" crowd along with the change of Presidency is what has caused the results that we see now in that country.

 

I guess my point of view is different than most people because a) I served during the first "Gulf War" and have spent most of my post-military career working closely with the military, and am privy to some stuff that the average person isn't.  I can't and wont go into detail, but let's just say that I understand why we do certain things with our military in this and other regions.

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