Some DUer’s supported the Iraq invasion?

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13. Yes, I did. Though was not on DU at the time

Saddam Hussein had to be removed. Yes, I do believe that sometimes we have to police of the world. There is no one else.

I sometimes wonder whether some so-called liberals would have preferred we did not enter WWII, or intervened in Kosovo.

And, of course, many here object to France's recent intervention in Mali.

Certainly the majority of the Arab world cheered the removal of Hussein. The problem was that we stayed too long. By the end of 2003, after Hussein was captured, we should have transferred the administration to international forces. Preferably from other Arab countries that shared language, religion and culture. More or less.

We should have let public servants to resume their work for an orderly transfer - more or less - of military rule to civilian one.

Instead we, first, refused to let Germany and France - that did not join us - participate in civilian rebuilding. We set a complete idiot - Paul Bremer - to administer a transfer. He refused to hire any member of the Ba'ath party, even though, as with many Nazis in Germany, they had no choice but to join the party to be able to hold a job and feed their families.

We poured millions of dollars to control Iraq while neglecting Afghanistan, letting the Taliban taking over.