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Originally Posted by Willravel
Ace, it wasn't our (read: the US) responsibility to decide whether or not to remove Saddam back in 1992 (or in 2003, for that matter). It was the UNs, but they decided it wasn't worth the risk. What risk? Read the news between 2003 and 2008.
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I understand that. However, I have no faith or trust in the UN -either now or then.
Adding to my confusion - Given PNAC or more specifically the membership and the connections with Bush - how can anyone who knew say they were deceived? Seems to me that anyone who had any knowledge of PNAC or its members had to know they were going to attack Iraq and use the US military to maintain US dominance in the world. I was not deceived because I supported the invasion of Iraq. So, who was deceived, who was "lied" to?
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While the UN is far from perfect, they seem to be a lot better at the whole "geopolitics" and "war" thing than we are. They saw what many saw before 2003: removing Saddam Hussein would mean civil war that's unresolvable from an outside force.
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I think our initial occupation strategy had a material flaw that was exploited. Although there was initial progress, thing took a turn for the worst pretty fast.
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Feb. 22, 2006, is the day the Bush administration says everything in Iraq changed.
Before that day, military and administration officials frequently explain, Iraq was moving in the right direction: National elections had been held, and a government was forming. But then the bombing of the golden dome shrine in Samarra derailed that positive momentum and unleashed a wave of brutal sectarian violence.
Even now, more than a year later, the president and other administration officials cite Samarra as a turning point -- "a tragic escalation of sectarian rage and reprisal," President Bush called it in a March 6 news conference. "One of the key changes in Iraq last year," White House spokesman Tony Snow said in January.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...201760_pf.html
We should have been better prepared for this type of an event.