The Missile Shield is shelved! Huzzah!

[ultima]

halogamer1989 said:

ultima said:

halogamer1989 said:
Foreign policy is this: a whole bowl of spaghetti thrown on the table. Each country is a strand of pasta. What we do about negotiating and resolving conflicts does not involve "just" two countries. Leaders need to look at the whole aspect of the situation.

Btw, if someone tries to zing me with the Bush+Iraq argument, I would say this: Bush did a thing to free people from Saddam but from what the media reported (I always take them w/ a grain of salt) he did not take the triangle of Iran+Iraq+Saudi Arabia into consideration. I will look forward to comparing Bush and Cheney's books next year on this.

No, no, no, you're wrong. Bush claimed that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, which as it has been discovered, he never did. And Bush never cared about Iraqis, as can be seen by the civilian casualties number. Don't try to justify his actions.

Saddam did have them and used them on the Kurds in Halabja.  The UN inspecters viewed a site with nothing in it b/c the Ba'ath Party leaders and Saddam knew that if you give them something decent to look at then the dirty stuff like VX is "nonexistent" in the mind of the UN.

In the end whether Saddam had nukes 2003 or wanted to try and get them so he could use them years down the road, one cannot deny that he was a danger to the world.  Here's proof for you to ponder:

Saddam did have chemical weapons that he used on Kurds, but guess where he got it from? I think you might know.

The UN inspectors didn't inspect "a" site. They inspected hundreds, and Saddam cooperated by giving them access to the sites they wanted. And VX is classified as a weapon of mass destruction by the UN, so it definitely would've triggered something. No weapons of mass destruction were found in the half a year the UN spent inspecting Iraq.

Now I agree that Saddam had to be overthrown. Dictatorship is never good, even if the dictator is benevolent. But even a good thing done for the wrong reason is a bad thing. So, I think, invading Iraq for oil was not fair or justified.