re: #73 Testy Toad T

The analogous comparison, if you wish to draw one, is not Saddam ‘03. You are looking for Saddam ‘91, when he was bulldozing a popular uprising in the south.

Okay, and did the US intervene then? Would it have been better if they did? Would the rebuilding of Iraq have been any easier? The answer to all of those questions is no, thank you for proving my point.

The destabilization happened without our help, and any outcome was going to be a chaotic and bloody one.

The destabilization I’m referring to was the fall of central authority and the proliferation of weapons and militias throughout north Africa. This would not have happened if Gaddafi had stayed in power.