After the Red Scare was over, the only countries we have chosen for intervention were those that were obviously violating international law (Genocide in the Bosnia and Serbia,) countries that have requested help, or countries that have recently posed a threat to us or our allies. Iraq may not have been a direct threat to us, but they still had a lot of shit that they could do to Israel or Saudi Arabia, not to mention that Saddam and his goons hated us and had the ability to supply weapons to others who shared their hatred, whether or not they did.
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