(November 19, 2014 at 12:00 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote:(November 19, 2014 at 11:43 am)Heywood Wrote: I don't mind you quoting just relevant sentences....I do that too. But please try to maintain the original context and at the very least....please at least quote complete sentences. Your quoting of a partial sentence is underhanded.No quote mining was intended. I re-read your entire post and it does seem like you're blaming Clinton for the 2003 Gulf War.
Quote:That being said, hostilities in Iraq began in 1991 not in 2003.
Seriously?
The 1991 was was a war to fight Iraqi aggression and liberate Kuwait. That was a justified war, done in concert with the UN, pursued only when all other options had failed. It was successfully concluded.
The 2003 war was done without a cause of war, fighting an enemy that had nothing to do with Saddam. Using 1991 to justify the 2003 war would be like invading Japan with the attempted justification of a war started in 1942.
You had full scale war in 1991. You had full scale war in 2003. Between 1991 and 2003 you had a quasi war in which intermittently bombed Iraq. It was really just one big long conflict....and still is. We're 23 years into a modern Hundred Years' War.
