In a risk vs. rewards scenario, the risk of losing 4500+ American lives was not worth Saddam's life. Had your favorite Shrub maintained his focus upon the perpetrators of 9/11, the potential reward (at the time) to the US of OBL's life and/or a dagger in al Qaeda's heart was much greater than that of Saddam's life, especially when you factor in what proved to be a prolonged war in Iraq. Originally Posted by bigtex
There may be an intelligent case to be made against the Iraq war, but you are obviously too stupid to make it. If it was a strategic mistake to remove Saddam, the costs are irrelevant. If it was a mistake, would it be any less of a mistake had we only lost 300 American lives (as in the 1991 Gulf War)? You imply that getting rid of Saddam was a proper and worthy strategic goal, provided it didn't cost us much. So all-wise & all-knowing littledix, at what point did it become a "mistake of historic proportions"? When we lost 500 lives? 2,000 lives? 4,000 lives? You obviously know how to pinpoint these things, right?
Your argument about Iraq causing us to lose focus on al queda is unconvincing. Why couldn't we do both - remove Saddam and eliminate OBL? Between 2003-2008, Bush did a pretty good job of decimating (if not decapitating) al queda at the same time we were in Iraq. What more should he have done? Should we have invaded Pakistan (in pursuit of bin laden) instead of Iraq? Would that have been a wise strategic move? I don't think so.
Like a limp little dick, you completely duck the question of whether the far greater human and financial costs of WW2 were worth incurring.
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