Reply #120: taking out saddam was as stupid as george w bush was stupid

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saddam had control. iraq was a functioning society. it had the most educated populace in the middle east. women had more rights than in most muslim countries. it wasn't a just country, but it could have been a lot worse.

saddam was of the sunni sect, and kept the majority shiite sect from turning iraq into an islamic fundamentalist state. exactly what we didn't want.

so what do we do?

eliminate the one thing that was keeping the islamic fundies from taking over.

what do you think will happen when we leave? (we sure as hell shouldn't stay.)

AND, we didn't find saddam. he was put into that "spider hole in the ground" by the iraqis, and we were told where to find him. we didn't do shit, except invade, destroy, then do nothing about protecting the stockpiles of weapons (NOT wmds) OR historical treasures. we were determined to make a show out of it (shock and awe), and then kill the one person that had that particular powder keg under control.

we should never have been there to start with because iraq had NOTHING to do with 9-11. but we completely destroyed most of its infrastructure, just so the boy bush could swagger and smirk.

and this whole charade started when american oil companies taught kuwait how to slant drill so they could steal iraq's oil. because of that saddam invaded kuwait, and hw bush said to saddam, go on, do what you have to do, we will stay out of it.

whereas we promptly jumped into the gulf war, assisting kuwait against the terrible invaders (that we trained to steal iraq's oil).

we have destroyed a country, killed hundreds of thousands of its citizens (possibly a million), and guaranteed that the islamic fundamentalists that want sharia law, will become the ones in power.

i don't think we could have fucked up a bad situation even more, if we tried. it's almost as if that is what we really wanted. continued excuses for military interventions, and sales of massive amounts of american defense industry product...

you know, like halliburton (which is synonymous with dick cheney), and kbr (headed, by the way, by a christian fundy of our own)....