re: #371 Daniel Ballard

That little chem war and the Kuwait invasion has an impact on the perceived threat from him. Rightly so IMO. The tragedy of our mistakes do not reduce the threat Saddam presented in any way.

The invasion of Kuwait was in the past, and it ended with Saddam’s riotous defeat. No idea why that’s supposed to elevate his threat level— especially to the US, since Kuwait isn’t the US.

Saddam wasn’t a threat to the US in any significant fashion, at all. He wasn’t more of a threat to stability in the region than ousting him would be, kind of bey definition.

The reason that we invaded based on false pretenses is because we wouldn’t have invaded if the false pretenses had not been sold to the American public. There was not, in any other way, enough motivation to invade Iraq and depose Saddam, because it was clear he presented no threat to the US.

I have no idea why, in 2012, we have to have this argument again, except the eternal march to revise history when it doesn’t suit people. The invasion of Iraq was not inevitable. “Dealing” with Iraq, whatever the fuck that means, was something that we’ve been doing forever, and we are continuing to do now.