Reply #8: A world without Saddam is safer? [View All]

[Pax Argent]

The following might disagree:

- 15,000 or so dead Iraqi military personnel
- Several thousand dead Iraqi civilians
- 520+ KIA GI's
- Several thousand wounded GI's
- 80 dead and 200+ wounded Kurds this past weekend
- who knows how many killed (to be killed) by Al Queda and Iraqi resistance
- the rest of the world who are now concerned about American rashness and unpredictability

......and all of those who might well be killed if the predictions of civil war in Iraq come true.

While Saddam was a threat to the stability of that region, he was not an imminent threat to the US. Removing him from power was a good thing. Removing him without a viable plan for replacing him while pissing off the rest of the world by initiating a unilateral war and running the US into several hundred BILLION dollars worth of debt in sweetheart contracts to favorite corporations was, demonstrably, a very bad thing.

At best I would have to take the position that it MIGHT be a safer world in the long run without Saddam, but at best the jury is definitely still out.