Just watched "No end in sight", a documentary about post war Iraq

[kazadoom]

TheRealMafoo said:

kazadoom said:

Besides, saving the people of Iraq from Saddam was a good enough reason to go in there, and you would be hard pressed to find a majority of Iraqi's that feel different.  I agree that things could have been done differently, but so could a lot of things that have been done by many leaders.  It is very easy to sit back after the thing is done and criticize the one who did it with no pressure on you to handle something that big in scale.  There were things done wrong and there were things done right to.  The violence over there has gone way down after the surge, so saying the condition is just so horrible now is just foolish.  What do you think it was like when Saddam was in power?

They knew it was impossible before they did it. Here is an interview from 1994.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHrH42kPEAs

 

94 was a completely different time in Iraq.  What we face now, is nothing like what he was describing would have happened back in 94.  That was 8 years before the second war and things were different.  We had allies, and we had Iraq who constantly broke sanction after sanction imposed after the 1st gulf war.  It is not impossible and we are making progress, it just take time.