Iraq was better off under Saddam
Re: Iraq was better off under Saddam
by Saz » Thu Aug 07, 2014 12:38 pm
DON'T BE A TOUGH GUY. DON'T BE A FOOL! I WILL CALL YOU LATER.
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Re: Iraq was better off under Saddam
by Indy » Thu Aug 07, 2014 12:54 pm
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Re: Iraq was better off under Saddam
by John Galt » Thu Aug 07, 2014 12:58 pm
it wasn't just pnac. that was the neo con position, sure, but there are liberal positions that favor interventionism abroad. in fact, i would say that the foreign policy that Bush II most closely resembled was Wilson
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Re: Iraq was better off under Saddam
by Doncorelone » Thu Aug 07, 2014 1:10 pm
How was Iraq better off under Saddam. They had one war which killed a million people, another one which made it more of an international pariah and destroyed its infrastructure, and two uprisings which killed 100,000 people.
They had the illusion of stability. Iraq is better off not existing. Just like Yugoslavia, because, the price of stability is only guaranteed by the personality of the leader, rather than the communities under him.
So hopefully in the short term, Iraq will splinter into three separate states, it will be a bloody awful mess, but we can only hope out of the ashes of what was Iraq will be three more stable homogeneous states.
They had the illusion of stability. Iraq is better off not existing. Just like Yugoslavia, because, the price of stability is only guaranteed by the personality of the leader, rather than the communities under him.
So hopefully in the short term, Iraq will splinter into three separate states, it will be a bloody awful mess, but we can only hope out of the ashes of what was Iraq will be three more stable homogeneous states.
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Re: Iraq was better off under Saddam
by Philly » Thu Aug 07, 2014 1:45 pm
go ahead. keep screaming "Shut The f**k Up " at me. it only makes my opinions Worse
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