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Oct 20 2014 11:07am
Yes, the war was mishandled, but the fall of Saddam was for the best.
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Oct 20 2014 11:14am
We should have never meddled in the middle east we should have left Iran alone way before we even thought about Iraq.
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Oct 20 2014 11:17am
Quote (Valhalls_Sun @ Oct 20 2014 12:14pm)
We should have never meddled in the middle east we should have left Iran alone way before we even thought about Iraq.


It has historically been a very important region for energy security (and thereby economic prosperity). What you're saying is just in basic denial of reality.
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Oct 20 2014 11:37am
Quote (bogie160 @ 20 Oct 2014 12:17)
It has historically been a very important region for energy security (and thereby economic prosperity). What you're saying is just in basic denial of reality.


Oh cut the hawk rhetoric as long as the U.S. has had the money to purchase oil there would have been oil, the only thing we've done is manufacture high crude prices in times of crisis, hmmmmm.

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Oct 20 2014 03:51pm
Quote (bogie160 @ Oct 20 2014 01:07pm)
Yes, the war was mishandled, but the fall of Saddam was for the best.


Was it? I agree Saddam was a poor leader, but the power vacuum we have seen as a result is pretty bad. Perhaps a different avenue of regime change would have been preferable.

Maybe a Kurdish led dictatorship if the Syria union was unobtainable.

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Oct 20 2014 04:43pm
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Was it? I agree Saddam was a poor leader, but the power vacuum we have seen as a result is pretty bad. Perhaps a different avenue of regime change would have been preferable.

Maybe a Kurdish led dictatorship if the Syria union was unobtainable.


This... Life in Iraq has not been good since Saddam was killed. A lot of Iraqis would prefer his regime over what they have now.
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Oct 20 2014 05:07pm
I'll let Neil describe our what the U.S. is constantly saying about our Middle East policy

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Oct 20 2014 05:34pm
Those who answered yes should explain why
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Oct 20 2014 05:42pm
No. It was fought under false pretenses to make a few people very very rich.

PM Michael Moore for details.
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Oct 20 2014 06:02pm
Quote (WidowMaKer_MK @ Oct 20 2014 11:06am)
...I would prosecute the war in the exact same successful way we did but handle the after-war differently .


what would be your motivations for war knowing now what we know about no ties to al queda and no weapons of mass destruction
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