• MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    It was just because W wanted to finish what his dad started and remove Saddam. There was no exit plan or grand strategy.

    • hopesdead
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      11 months ago

      That doesn’t necessarily mean Saddam wasn’t bad, but why not let the citizens of Iraq decide that?

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        11 months ago

        As a dictator he weaponized his ethnic minority to violently oppress the majority. The people in Iraq had no say.

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        11 months ago

        Norman Schwarzkopf said if we take him out worse people would fill in and he was right