Quote Originally Posted by Jaimecbr900
A couple of other things to remember too:

Who were the U.S. supposed to help? The country that had just kidnapped it's citizens and has been overthrown by radical Muslims or the country fighting against that??? It's a very logical answer. Would you of rather fight one weakened country 20 yrs later or 2 strong united countries then? It would have been WWIII.
But we still ended up with a dictator that killed thousands, so was it really the right choice? On the other hand recently Iran has stuck its hand out to the U.S and we slapped it, Iran aided the U.S after 9/11 in the search for Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. Iran wants to be a superpower like the U.S (which explains their interest in Nuclear Weapons) but contrary to what the media portrays they do not hate us. I know that hindsight is 20/20 but I don't think Saddam really needed billions of dollars in aid from us.

The reason why Sr. had the backing of other countries in Gulf War I was because Iraq INVADED Kuwait. We beat their ass then. They surrendered. They signed a treaty which outlined specifically what they HAD to do. They didn't do it. 10 years later the U.N. was still playing pacifist about it. 10 damn years later. Not 1, not 5, 10 damn years to comply and STILL didn't. The U.N. is to blame for Iraq more than anyone else. Had THEY done what they are there TO do, this wouldn't be a unilateral fight.....it would be called Gulf War II. But as it is, the U.S. was the only one that was willing to go out on that preverbial limb and do what SHOULD have been done long ago.
Which is one of my issues, if the U.S is going to act unilaterally then why adhere to the Geneva Convention? Why care how prisoners are being treated? It goes back to domestic policy, nothing to do with Iraq. If you're going to do it half assed then why do it at all...

I can't say where I stand, democrats want to pull funding which is asinine. Conservatives want to "stay the course" but that is obviously getting us nowhere.. this next election is so serious that words cannot begin to express it, I just hope we elect the right one.