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Originally Posted by movieman88
It made plenty of fucking sense when you consider that saddam was a madman who has committed genocide over the course of the last few decades.
if we are to live in a better world there must be justice, his victims demanded justice. It matters fucking not that there might have been alterior motives for going to Iraq.
Saddam is dead the world is better safer place with out him, SO FUCKING WHAT IF WE TOOK SOME OIL WHILE WE WHERE OVER THERE.
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I'd buy this if we were even remotely consistent about applying force in the service of justice, but we don't. Right now currently in the world there are dozens of world leaders and governments as corrupt and oppressive as Saddam's was....some we even consider major allies. Truth is we don't care so long as they don't have anything we want or they don't threaten anything we have. (Which is what Saddam's real crime was back in 1991.) We'll even turn a benevolent blind eye to their crimes provided said leaders tell us what we want to hear. Saddam was one of our best friends in the middle east (gassing Kurds and all) until he decided Kuwait should be in his instead of our pocket.
Destroying Saddam's regime was never about justice. It was about making an example of someone we had spent the last 20 years isolating and rendering defenseless for political reasons, and because it was important that Bush be seen doing SOMETHING concrete in the face of the World Trade center bombings when we couldn't find and kill Osama Bin Laden. We attacked him because we had made sure he couldn't defend himself from us and because he was stupid enough to get on the worlds radar in a bad way.