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On Sun, 25 Oct 2015 12:42:15 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: On 10/25/2015 12:32 PM, wrote: The flaw in your logic is the no fly zones were not part of the original cease fire and that essentially restarted the war. Overflying a sovereign country with armed aircraft and shooting missiles into the crowd is an act of war. They were started right before the 1992 election and actually became the Clinton policy. By the time GW took office, a state of war had existed in Iraq for over 8 years. People are trying to reinstate that situation in Iraq again as we speak. What could possibly go wrong? ;-) I also think the way we are parsing "combat deaths" with the rest of the people dying is down right Orwellian. Most of the GIs who died in Iraq were not "combat deaths" in the current twisted definition. I stand corrected. The UN did not authorize the no fly zones. The US Britain and France did, mostly to protect the Kurds. "Protecting the Kurds" was just a euphemism for supporting a CIA inspired coup. It became clear that we needed boots on the ground to actually accomplish that so we did. Regardless, it wasn't the only Resolution being broken and Saddam was certainly starting to behave in a militaristic manner again. He was simply emulating Bill Clinton and believing he was bullet proof. We bombed him just about every day for a decade and he was as powerful as ever,. The US was even losing the allies they had counted on for most of that time. By 2003, the only choice was becoming, walk away and let him have the win or go get him. Pressure from the Eastern Med assured, walking away was never going to be an option. I doubt Al Gore would have come up with any better option either. If we were seen as supporting an Israelis in a war with saddam it would have been infinitely worse. You only have to look at 1974 to get a clue and that did not even involve an invasion of a muslim state. |
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