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Zeld, we cannot decide to just sit out the future unfortunately. I would love to say "Just go do what you want to do to yourselves." however that leads to evil happening, sure it might be around the corner from us right now and not affect us however some time in the future we may very well be the target of that evil.
Saddam was not the worst guy ever to rule a country, heck our history ain't sweetness and light either however we are trying to do the right thing, we are trying to be good.
However we will get blamed either way, either we did not step in to help people and so "killed them" (see Oxfam shops where they continually try to pressure you that the problems in this world are your fault), or you step in and stop the problems (try to) and get told that its for purely selfish reasons and that you are a bad country (see Iraq).
We need to attempt to keep the peace world wide as we are capable of this and we are "civilised?" enough to do it. Ok we have problems in our countires and could probably survive without the rest of the world however its still there and sometimes problems can come back and annoy you again. George Bush Jr is not my favourite politician, however he did stand up and go to war for a valid reason, his policies may be coloured by the prospect of less oil however if that was all he wanted we did not need to take most of Iraq... just roll in take the oil fields and kill anyone who is approaching them (say 2kilometers (1.2 milesish) as a no walk zone around them?). However we did go to Basra and other cities, which is suicide for our troops as ambushes and suchlike are far easier in cities as is hiding troops.
Well just 0.02 of the local currency
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