Originally posted by yerssot
*slow handclap*
you defeated a country that has no money, barely any weapons and had barely a worthy army against your troops 🙄
and after you had the ability to kick out saddam you guys left, leaving thousands of sijits (sp) [other kind of muslim, not saddam his kind]
to die while they tried to do a coup d'état.
(the first wanker who asks me what that means is getting a punch in the face)
funny you mention that Fire ...
"Trying to eliminate Saddam .. would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible ... We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq ...there was no viable "exit strategy" we could see, violating another of our principles. Furthermore, we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-Cold War world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land."