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Originally posted by uno
The terrorist training camp was just off the border of Iran in Kurdish territory in the no-fly zone. Saddam and the central gov't had no control over that area.
Do you want America to be an isolationist country being basically unilateral in most actions or would you rather we had allies in trade and future predicaments?
Saddam hadn't done anything like attacking a neighbor since the last time he was spanked for it in the Gulf War. When the Kurds in the North were gassed, pre-Gulf War, we blamed it on Iran.
North Korea is going to get the shit end of the stick regardless of who gets elected.
I agree about Iran. They don't stand a chance whether it is us or Israel who take out the reacter. Either way the backlash probably won't be pretty. Their reactors are up, they just announced they are going to start uranium enrichment programs "for energy". Diplomacy isn't going to work there unless we support all the grass roots movements for a democratic Iran. It might happen in our lifetime. I certainly hope so. Unfortunately thanks to our ally who got a verbal lashing and nothing more for supplying half the world with nuclear secrets we don't have a lifetime. If we did take out an Iranian reactor, I'm not sure we have the troops or structure to have 3 occupations simultaneously if they retaliated.
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Dont get me wrong i applaud the british and the poles and everyones else that helped with the Iraq coalition.. but to think we should change our policy to please france and germany so they support us is scary...
It's just to hard to prove Saddam was or was not a threat without all the intelligence the admin looked at... So thats why I trust their opinion...
surely its conceivable to you that hed work with terroist to harm us.. he hated us for turning our backs on him... and spanking him... and on the same token its conceivable to me the inspections did work and saddam could do nothing more then torture a few politcal opponents of his...