Was the Iraq war the right thing to do??

[jdhill 0]

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My guess is that they didn't want to kill 10,000 civilians unnecessarily, when there was still hope for a peaceful diplomatic solution.

Yes... lets not have 10,000 deaths on UN hands, just on Saddam's... the "Oil for Food" program bought the UN some mighty nice blinders.

J

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke

[billvon 3,118]

>the "Oil for Food" program bought the UN some mighty nice blinders.

And the "Oil for WMD" program bought Hussein some very nice american made weapons, and lots of dead Iranians to boot (which made us happy.) I can only imagine the shrill screams of incoherent rage from the far right if it turned out that France had sold some of those WMD's to Iraq. It must be incredibly frustrating to realize that the ingredients used for those weapons (and the vehicles used to deliver them) had "Made in USA" stamped on them. Terrible to have to accept any responsibility at all for something we did when there are so many people we could be blaming!