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Originally Posted by 91chevywt
Whether you support the war or not, the truth is Saddam Hussein committed atrocious crimes against his own people. Including murder, abduction, torture, rape of women, all in the name of ethnic cleansing. This was not hundreds of people. Hundreds of thousands of people were murdered, abducted, due to the sect of Islam they practiced. Saddam Hussein ranks among the most evil of dictators, including Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong, etc.
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Matt said it and guess where he got all those weapons?
Guess where he got the military might?
Guess who trained the Taliban and other Afganistan tribes?
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
If we were to invade EVERY single country that did that, we could set up shop in Africa.
I think that Wikileaks gave us a little window, and possible a clue into what was going on.
Wikileaks shows that most of the friendly Arab countries want us to dismantle Iran, and I think that you could say the same for Iraq.
What is the point of winning Afganistan? What is the point of me losing ANOTHER friend in that hell hole? Do we think that if we "win", that terrorisim will just stop? We took our eye off the ball. Russia had a death-grip over that country, pouring all thier resources into that country, and thanks to a little red white and blue, they walked out of that country, tail between legs.
My feelings on pulling out of both those places still stands as it did 4 years ago. The time to leave is now. We are not going after any sort of terrorists, and we sure as hell arent going to get them by sending another hundred thousand troops into that rocky ********.
But we have torn apart that country, as well as Iraq, and we cannot leave it crumbling, even if it was crumbling before we got there.
I dont pretend that in war, the civilians will be left unscathed, and when I hear that a few died here and there, it does not effect me and my outlook of the war.
We are stuck in these two places, forever. And the longer we are there, the more that we will not be welcome.
The Taliban is different than Al Qaeda, which is different than Iraq's former government.
Saddam was a terror, no doubt. But he had to control 3 warring factions of the Muslim faith, all trying to take claim to part of this sacred country.
I have a feeling that the Saudi's wanted the US to remove Saddam as they we were pissed about 9/11. No one wants a crazy man next store, and instead of launching a muslim war in the middle east, America would be more then happy to fight that war.