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Originally Posted by Willravel
President Clinton and the UN didn't see Saddam as a threat in the same way you seem to suggest. The UN was concerned, so they sent in inspectors, and Bill Clinton supported that (unless there was a certain intern in the news, and then he'd inexplicably bomb Iraq). Neither of them wanted to invade Iraq. Why? I think that's obvious now. Moreover, Bill and the UN knew that so long as Saddam was declawed, he was only a danger to his own country (like hundreds of other dictators around the world), and that didn't require the US or UN to intervene.
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I don't do well with shades of gray. I don't understand when a concern becomes a threat in your view or even what the real difference is. In my view a concern requires action just as a threat requires action. If the issue is what strategy to employ in addressing a concern/threat, I get it. Reasonable people can disagree on strategy, but that does not seem to be what our disagreement is.