(May 7, 2014 at 10:03 pm)Heywood Wrote: A)We had a moral obligation to remove Saddam Hussein from power.
We had a moral obligation not to put the fucker in power and prop up his regime in the first place. Seems like we are awfully choosy about which moral obligations we care about.
Quote:B)An endless quasi-war and endless sanctions against the Iraqi people needed to stop.
Could have done that by simply walking away from the whole mess and letting it sort itself out, which was exactly what ended up happening anyway, if you ignore the few hundred thousand dead Iraqis and the few thousand dead American servicepersons.