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Overthrowing Saddam Hussein Was Worth the Price

The Iraq war freed the world of a dangerous, determined, and irrational leader

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Interesting how both weapons inspectors who inspected things after Saddam fell both stated that Iraq was a gathering threat and a dangerous place, becoming more dangerous as time went on.

None of the constraints--NONE--were long terms solutions to containing Saddam. The sanctions were all but gone by the time we intervened. The inspections were going nowhere fast since Saddam's henchmen had found ways to keep them at bay and he was playing politics with the UN Security Council. He violated all of the UN Resolutions. War was our last option.

With sanctions gone, Oil for Food money coming in, and inspections going nowhere, we learned that Iraq was only a few months away from restarting part of its biological agent program. And we know that Saddam had every intent to restart his WMD program once sanctions were gone. Good thing we went into Iraq when we did, tis better to go in before there were any WMDs instead of after he had started producing them again.

The decision was right and the timing was right, but the implementation was awful.

K.R. Kane of UT 8:53AM November 14, 2011

Mr. Sofaer is correct. In an underreported story, an Arabic -speaking FBI agent got to know Saddam in the months before his execution, and asked him whether, if we had not invaded he would have reconstituted his WMD programs. The immediate answer was yes.

Thomas Letchfield of CA 6:39PM November 11, 2011

QED.

The nasty dictator Saddam Hussein is out and a new and promising government is in.....and other Middle East governments watched the whole thing.

Charles Ewell. Chairman, The Governance Institute of CA 4:15PM November 11, 2011

QED.

The nasty dictator Saddam Hussein is out and a new and promising government is in.....and other Middle East governments watched the whole thing.

Charles Ewell. Chairman, The Governance Institute of CA 4:14PM November 11, 2011

Other than bankrupting our country, killing 4000 Americans and ?Iraqis, losing our freedoms to Big Sis, making us even more hated for meddling, it was good for Israel, ridding them of a remote chance of conflict with Iraq at American expense of blood, honor, and treasure.

Luther of LA 2:42PM November 11, 2011