re: #129 Tigger2005

Why do you call the Iraq war a giant blunder?

1. A dangerous, unstable dictator has been removed from the world.
2. This dangerous, unstable dictator was in violation of numerous U.N. resolutions. Continuing to let him get away with his crap was making the U.N. an even bigger laughingstock than it already was (and is).
3. The people of Iraq are no longer being tortured, terrorized, slaughtered, and shoveled into mass graves by this dangerous, unstable dictator and his insane sons.
4. Iraq is now a democracy, and an important counterbalance to Iranian dreams of hegemony in the Middle East.
5. We killed a whole lotta Al-Q terrorists in Iraq.

I’m sorry, I just don’t see where all of this is a “giant blunder.” If you can explain to me how things would be better if we’d just let Saddam be, I’d like to hear it.

4000+ American servicemen and women would still be alive, as would untold thousands of innocent Iraqis.

Granted, Saddam was an evil motherfucker. But the last time I checked, that wasn’t the test for us deciding to spill American blood and fortune. Else we’d be in a lot of other countries, too.