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Originally Posted by Dolly3275
If there is a fear that a country (that previously invaded another country, unprevoked) has nukes, chemical weapons, etc.-----and they refuse to allow inspections to erase those fears (which was part of the surrender agreement in regard to Iraq)-----does the president get a second chance if he does nothing----and they have nukes, and they then use those nukes????
There wasn't really any wiggle room in regard to----do they have nukes/chemical weapons or don't they.
I was never quite sure why we were invading Iraq, but I supported the war for several years. I used to make these same points.
Iraq didn't refuse to allow the inspectors. We pulled out inspectors before we attacked.
You might be thinking of Scott Ritter's team, who left in 1998 because the Iraqi government was not giving his teams the access they were supposed to have, and there was a chance that we were going to attack then. But they ironed all that out, and the inspections program was indeed resumed.
You might recall that by 2002 / 2003, Ritter was making the TV rounds proclaiming to anybdoy that would listen that there were no weapons. Of course, he was then arrested for soliciting a minor...a charge that essentially later disappeared via beaucracy, and was probably a government set up to shut him up and discredit him. I suppose he is lucky that he isn't dead.
As for Kuwait? Heck, Hussein asked us if he could invade Kuwait. We told him we weren't going to meddle in the affairs of the Middle East. If we had simply told him not to, the whole Gulf War could have been avoided.
Also, breaking a UN resolution does not give the US the right to attack another country, anyway.
We can't afford to be the world's police, nor should we remain in denial that our foreign policy stirs up the hornets in the Middle East.
But instead, now we're re-arming the evil Hussein Sunnis again, to fight the Al Qaeda.... that didn't exist in Iraq before we invaded because the Sunni hate them - they never allowed Al Qaeda in Iraq.
And don't forget, we even armed the Al Qaeda so they could defeat those evil Russians back in the day when Communism, and not Islamofascism, was the global threat of the decade..
When exactly do we stop and declare victory? When there's peace in the Middle East? We'll be bankrupted long before then.
I don't care if they do have nukes. They can blow each other up and we can be done with them.