re: #343 Charles

It always amazes me when people like Uygur try to argue that Sadam Hussein was no threat. This is the dictator who got within months of having a working nuclear reactor online, generating enriched uranium.

Did we find WMDs in Iraq? Obviously, the answer is no. Was Saddam Hussein a brutal murderer who would continue to be a threat to the Middle East and the world? Obviously, the answer is yes.

The world is better off without Saddam in it, despite the messy consequences of our invasion of Iraq.

Saddam Hussein lied about his nuclear and WMD capabilities…not so we’d invade, but because he was an insecure little prick who wanted to look tough to his neighbors. The one nuclear reactor he was building wasn’t very complex, and I believe was destroyed pre-emptively by Israel…but I could be wrong about that.

Sure, he was an asshole. But he wasn’t a threat to Kuwait anymore, as we’d spent the previous 12 years boming his country weekly when we thought we had valid targets, and the north and south sections of that country were no-fly zones. In short, bush invaded Iraq because he knew they couldn’t fight back. That said, he didn’t plan for the aftermath and insurgency—which focusing on infrastructure would have helped to alleviate.