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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumswho was a bigger threat to National Security, GW Bush or Saddam Hussein?
how should the bigger threat have been properly addressed?
randys1
(16,286 posts)AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)nt
PersonNumber503602
(1,134 posts)Walking around with that huuuuge target on his back.
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)Although he did just coincidentally control a whole lotta oil!!1!
TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)...A target based on lies and innuendo; though killing Saddam didn't remove the threat.
TYY
Rex
(65,616 posts)And the FACT that we had Iraq contained for decades...should be an easy question to answer.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)...in 2k. I watched on TV, but sat home in NY. The biggest regret of my adult life.
reddread
(6,896 posts)we needed boots on the ground when someone decided to let Clarence Thomas sail through.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)were those he ruled over. His army was shattered by the Gulf War, and not that great even then. The Iraqis and Iranians fought a very nasty war for eight years or so, which left the Iraqi army in a shambles.
Monkeyman was a threat to the well-being of everybody in the freaking world. He should have been given a banana and a tire swing.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)People really want to believe the Saudis are the moderate good guys in the ME...but it ain't really so.
blm
(113,065 posts)Bush Family Evil Empire. Goes back generations. The corporate media has been trained to look the other way.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)calimary
(81,318 posts)"Well, you've covered yer ass now."
TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)Last edited Sun Feb 10, 2019, 05:17 PM - Edit history (2)
TYY
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)We'll be paying for his fuckups for decades.