Max Rambone wrote:Tell me there's no reason why we(as a world society) shouldn't go after madmen like bin Laden or Hussein and I'll ask you why France and Britain went after Hitler....followed by us and the rest of the sane world.
While I don't really feel like inciting anything, the Iraq War is hardly comparable to WW2. In terms of real threat posed and damage caused, Iraq just wasn't even close. The hysteria over WMDs was based on misinformation and, even at the time, it was ridiculous at best. If that wasn't bad enough, the suspected ties to terrorist organisations were even more absurd.
Let's face it, all Hussein's death really achieved was more sectarian violence in Iraq and probably a whole lot of instability in the region that the US and other nations in the coalition will simply distance themselves from gradually. It's a sad fact of life that all of the nations involved in the Iraq War don't have or won't commit the money/resources to clean up the mess in its entirety and bring stability to the region. Of course the Iraqis are 'free' now, whatever that means. The difference that makes for each individual over there is fairly debatable. I'd say it's hard to be 'free' when you don't know if some zealot has planted a lick on the road you're going to drive down to get to work this morning or in the marketplace you'll be shopping at this afternoon.
Even if you think Saddam was completely deserving of what he got, you have to wonder if he could have killed around half a million Iraqis, displaced a million more and opened up his country to extremism of the worst kind in the remainder of his lifetime. I have to say, I have my doubts.