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Originally Posted by cobra de capell
It's not seeing thing in black or white, its seeing things as they are. At least on the left they have positions, of sorts, they take positions, of sorts and the right is very firm when it comes to positions on the issues. In your case, the middle, you don't really have positions you simply mre or less call everyone stupid with you having all the answers, especially in hindlight. Yes, no WMD's, but SH stated that he had them, he informed his generals that he had them - the entire free world, except for you, believed that he had them, so reality at the time - he had them. Now, what about that scenario don't you understand?
BTW, your posts on this issue are simply a huge load of codswallop. I’m going to need a bigger wheelbarrow, but please keep posting.
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Of course he had them! We gave them to him! He had them for years and he never used them against us. They also expired years ago. His WMD were also not likely to ever be used against us UNLESS we attacked him. His WMD (or rather, the threat of those WMD) helped keep Iran in check. Hussein would also not allow Iran to get nukes because he would have been one of the first people they would be used on. That threat to Iran is now gone, and instead, Iraq will eventually end up favouring Iran. Obviously, you don't know that a very strong Iran is not in our best interests, nor in the best interests of the rest of the countries in the ME. You have a very shortsighted view of how to balance powers in order to cancel those powers out.
Scowcroft knows a helluva lot more about this than either of us do, and he thought it was a bad idea as well. Why is that? A lot of generals are retiring and saying that we violated the rules of war, the Powell Doctrine, and so on. They all must be evil libs, right?
Steve