Originally posted by: LunarRay
Originally posted by: Nomerc
Well with all that is going on now in Iraq no one is going to help us. We started cleaning out the outhouse and now that we are knee deep in now don't expect others to jump in and help now that the smell is good and ripe.
This should of been done some 12 years ago. More to the point Bush Sr. should of not called off the dogs for another 3 hours and we would not be knee deep in the outhouse now cleaning it up.
Just three hours more and this would of been taken care of then, that was that was needed... three hours... He got scared because of the highway of death and some reporters that got some pics and the story of it was going to be released.
Why the US Didn't Topple Saddam in 1991
After driving Iraq out of Kuwait, the US made a conscious decision not to invade Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein because it feared the potential consequences of such an action. A ground invasion posed the danger of radicalization and social upheavals throughout the Arab world, as well as unpopular heavy US causalities.
Removing Saddam ran the risk of leading to the break-up of the Iraqi state, which would seriously destabilize the region. To avoid such a scenario, the US would have had to occupy Iraq to maintain stability - which Bush Sr. was unwilling to do. Ever since, the right-wing of the Republican Party has been obsessed with the apparent failure of US power to remove Saddam and has consistently campaigned for the US to "finish the job."
With US imperialism temporarily strengthened after 9/11 and its rapid victory in Afghanistan, and with the hawkish Rumsfeld wing dominating the Bush administration, they see the opportunity to finally solve the "Iraq problem" which they view as a source of annoyance and embarrassment.
Now Bush wants to make ordinary Iraqis and Americans suffer through yet another war on Iraq for the power, prestige and profits of US capitalism.
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