Dschrute3
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- Dec 10, 2016
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And now all the christians are gone from there too.It's not that simple. What would have happened if we had never gone into Iraq? Sadam would have continued his conquests down the Gulf Coast conquering much of the world's oil supply and holding the global economy the the balls. This would clearly have threatened American interests. The question about going into the second Iraq war comes down to this: how long would it have been possible to contain Iraq with sanctions enforced by the UN?It's just political talk. Everyone will express outrage but no one will be willing to do anything about it, and that makes sense because using chemical weapons of civilians is no worse than dropping barrel bombs on them and the world seems quite content for that to continue.
The most difficult fighting is like we faced in Mosul. Where the enemy digs in, and we have to fight them, house to house, block by block, facing large casualities to take back the town. What better way for Assad to defeat the rebels, than to just drop nerve gas, and kill everybody no matter where they hid, no matter how fortified they were, or how well armed, or how many booby traps they set. The ultimate way to get rid of the people, while leaving the city intact.
We shouldn't be in Iraq and Syria to begin with. That's what you misguided Warmongers don't get. Both nations were never a threat to the US. So why are we there?
As for Syria, we are only in Syria to fight ISIS and we are only doing that because it was not politically feasible to watch the ISIS videos and not respond.
Come on now, seriously? Iraq was decimated by years of sanctions and a 'No-Fly Zone.' It barely had a military. It was not a threat to the US. The invasion was a completely unnecessary catastrophic blunder. All it achieved was, killing Thousands of innocents and handing the country over to Shiites who are aligned with Shiite Iran. It's time to adopt a disengagement policy in the Middle East. Enough is enough.
Yes, under Hussein Christians were respected and protected. He included Christians in his Government. We've opened Pandora's Box in Iraq. It's a catastrophic blunder of epic proportions.