Originally Posted By: whomod
 Originally Posted By: thedoctor

No, I've just felt that Saddam should have been taken out in the 90's, and the fact that Bush Sr. didn't do it or fully support the rebels to do so was a big failing of his administration.





the only reasonable answer now is that dementia set in in his old age.

the failure of Bush Sr. though to back the very uprising that he called for is indeed a big failing of his though.



No, Whomod, this has been answered over and over for months.

What Cheney said in answer to this, on Meet the Press and elsewhere, is that keeping U.S. troops in the middle east from 1991-2003 to contain Saddam Hussein had its own risks, and was used as a rationalization by Al Qaida and other muslims for terrorism against the U.S.

So... while Cheney still saw the risks of invading Iraq, he saw the risks of keeping things as they had been for 13 years as an even greater risk, and that regime-change in Iraq had to be attempted.


You, Halo82, and the other treasonous liberals all make the talking points for our muslim enemies, that our troops in the Middle East is what gave muslims provocation for terrorism on 9/11.

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