On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 12:53:39 -0400, Justan Olphart
wrote:

On 10/30/2015 12:46 PM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 10/30/15 12:31 PM, wrote:

Most of what you consider the "iraq war" was actually trying to
establish a functional government there. If we had simply taken down
Saddam and left, the US death toll would have been a couple hundred,
not thousands.

The reality is that we should have left in 1991. In retrospect, Saddam
was never a threat to the US. Getting the troops out of Saudi Arabia
would have prevented BOTH WTC attacks and all of the problems since
... at least for the US. (No Iraq, no Afghanistan, no USS Cole).


I concur.

Now that that's settled, What about Syria?

Let Putin deal with them. Let him greet his boys coming home in body
bags at the airport.
Even the Israelis are starting to come around to the idea that there
are far worse things than Assad.