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| On this day in 1991...; 'Mother of all Battles' begins | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 17 2008, 05:23 PM (160 Views) | |
| John | Jan 17 2008, 05:23 PM Post #1 |
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Who knew back then that 16 years later they would still be fighting in Iraq.... |
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| AndyW76 | Jan 17 2008, 05:31 PM Post #2 |
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Still lead by some clown called Bush.
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| PiquetFan | Jan 17 2008, 07:23 PM Post #3 |
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I was reading P J O'Rourke's "Peace Kills" while on holiday, and it struck me that Bush the Elder could have done a lot worse than effect 'regime change' in 1991
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| AndyW76 | Jan 17 2008, 07:29 PM Post #4 |
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My thoughts on both gulf wars and Sadam Hussein is "better the devil you know". I'm not saying he was a good thing but, with Sadam in power, he could be controlled, now the country is virtually at civil war and the terrorist threat to countries involved in the war is significantly worse. need I remind anyone of the July 7th bombings |
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| Startline Ed | Jan 17 2008, 07:54 PM Post #5 |
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He could have done and should have done, but whether the coalition would have stayed together is debatable. In 1991 the Kurds in the North and the Shias in the South both rose against Saddam, it was Saddam's repression of these risings that led to the introduction of the no-fly zones. So we could have had a popular rising supported by a truly international coalition, but we didn't and 12 years later a new coalition returned to Iraq. |
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| Norbert | Jan 18 2008, 01:12 PM Post #6 |
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Mother of all battles, or just mother of all excuses to interfere with one of the largest source of oil in the world....? |
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| Norbert | Jan 18 2008, 01:13 PM Post #7 |
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I believe that far more people have died since we started 'helping' Iraq that Saddam himself managed to have finished off. Except that now they'll all killing each other rather than being killed by a dictator.
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