Quote: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.

I know plenty of people that have served some over an entire career that disagree we shouldn't be involved in theses regional conflicts abroad.


You claim it was being our boys home that lead to the mess in modern day Iraq but I ask at what point would it have been acceptable to come home? Should we have occupied for two decades, three, maybe more? Who's to say the region wouldn't be destabilized when we left in some future time frame all the evidence suggest that's exactly what would've happened. That region has been unstable for centuries do you not see the arrogance in assuming we can change that? Or that we should change that?


As for the oil yes you are correct that was a huge reason for what happened which is why I'm all for drilling here at home while researching alternative energy until we become energy independent we will be involved abroad.


It doesn't matter how many different ways we try and rewrite the reason for invading Iraq the mess where in now illustrates perfectly why non-intervention should be our foreign policy.

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