Reply #6: And here you have the root of my central objection to the Iraq war, [View All]

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namely, that in deposing Saddam Hussein and ridding ourselves of his "threat," we would open Iraq up to civil war - making it all the more easy for an extremist government to take power - and create for the United States a real threat similar in nature to the threat posed by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

For just one moment, forget the WMD that have yet to be found. Forget the nuclear weapons program that never existed. Forget the predator drones that couldn't make it across the street, let alone across the ocean. Forget all the other lies we were told to justify this war, and just think about the long-term consequences. Iraq, or at least Iraq as the British "designed" it after WWI, has never been a stable country. Even a dictator like Hussein couldn't hold it all together. Did we honestly think a democratic government, imposed by brute force, could do the trick?

But nobody listens to me. After all, as Boosh has noted, who cares what I think?