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The political entity known as "Iraq", a British fabrication designed (like the borders of Africa) for permanent instability, must either have its Saddam or be dissolved. Anyone who takes control of the country will be, for all intents and purposes, Saddam Hussein. In fact, we are doing what Saddam did, and doing worse--killing more people faster without fostering the stability of his regime.
At this point only an independent Kurdistan with Turkey freely ceding land could stabilize the region and allow any possibility of democratization ANYWHERE (it will never happen for all of Iraq, but the Kurds might pull it off). Guess what? Turkey's never giving up that land. So the choice is between war without end and dictatorship a la Hussein.
Also--hundreds of billions of dollars to kill a 65 year old overweight male smoker? If only we had insurance men instead of oilmen running the government! A "natural" succession would likely have ended with more progressive officers taking over after offing those crazy sons--the beginning of a sort of mini-glasnost. Those officers are dead or rotting in US prisons now.
We should have just waited for the old fuck to die.
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