Y’all do know Kuwait was under drilling Iraq right?
The Scud story was retracted.
I don’t get your drift. Are you saying Iraq was justified in invading Kuwait?
I’m just saying read, learn, don’t take everything at face value.
As for Saddam being justified. He was just as justified invading Kuwait as we were justified in invading Iraq.
Neither had a real reason.
Who cares if he was justified in invading Kuwait or not? If he thinks Kuwait is slant drilling into his territory, and he invades on that basis, why in Heaven’s name should we care even one little bit?
We had it right the first time: it was an intra-Arab dispute, and should have been settled as such. We had no business sticking our fool necks into that dispute, other than that Bush the First had some personal friends in the region, and decided to use the military as if it were his personal guard.
If the UN decided to go in under the doctrine of collective self-defense, fine. In which case, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Jordan should have been leading the coalition, not us.
How many people have had to die because some of us greedy Americans want to drive fuel inefficient vehicles? There is blood on our hands.
Even if everything that Brutus says about the benefits for America are true, this is not the kind of country that I can be proud of anymore. Too many of our leaders are ruthless.
I recently saw an interesting interview with George Bush the First from several years ago. In it he explained all of the reasons why he did not have the military to take out Suddam Hussein during or immediately after the first war in the Persian Gulf. He described all of the horrors that are happening today in Iraq. Would that his son had listened to his counsel.
I agree that we must protect " the single most important resource of modern society." But it isn’t oil. It is human beings.
If that’s the case, then shouldn’t the decision of whether or not to invade Iraq in 2003 be made by the United Nations? You know, that international group the Administration had a hissy-fit over when they wouldn’t rubber-stamp George’s war?
Probably because we waged that war under the authority of the UN, and our authority there was limited to kicking Iraqis out of Kuwait.