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Originally Posted by aceventura3
It is hard to say what might have happened, I don't know. What I do know is what he did while in power, and his defiance to UN mandates. Both were unacceptable in my opinion.
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I appreciate what you wrote in the first sentence, but I wonder, would you care to postulate?
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Originally Posted by aceventura3
How many deaths is Saddam responsible for? How many would he have been willing to kill? I don't know. However, I don't think we are responsible for deaths of all the Iraqis who have died. The people who have murdered innocent people are responsible for the people they have murdered. Even if what we did is considered wrong, that does not justify the actions of terrorists. Our military has done the best they can to minimize civilian casualties.
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I think the question is to the initial invasion and the results of that. Had we not invaded, there's no reason to believe that the Hussein regime would have shifted their tactics. So, assuming that the tactics stayed the same, we may very well have seen a few hundred to at most a few thousand deaths in the last 4-5 years. Compare that to even the most conservative current estimates, maybe around 100,000. I'd say that's rather one sided. As has been said, anyone could have seen that we wouldn't be welcomed with open arms, and we would not have been able to replace the republican guard's ability to keep the peace. So it stands to reason that sectarian violence would break out.
BTW, insurgents aren't the same as terrorists.