Originally Posted by Jim_Conrad
Originally Posted by hatari
Originally Posted by STRSWilson


Saddam was the weight on the pressure cooker. Once removed, the kitchen got real messy.


Agreed. Taking him out left a power vacuum that we naively thought Democracy would fill. Not in the Middle East.



Nobody thought that.


You forget the the policy of "Nation building"?

https://ethics.harvard.edu/event/iraq-and-ethics-nation-building

"The Democrat Party looks like Titanic survivors. Partying and celebrating one moment, and huddled in lifeboats freezing the next". Hatari 2017

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