It was a secular country. It will now be a free-for-all when we leave with the Shias certaintly coming out on top.
Saddam was a bad man. No threat whatsoever to us, though. I'm glad that you're willing to sacrifice 5000 American lives and 20,000 more maimed to get him out of there.
I think a safe estimate would be another 75,000 Iraqi civilians killed and a half million wounded. Those figures are on the very low end.
Was it worth it?
Sad.
was it worth it?.....history will decide...theres no way of knowing what havoc that saddam would have wrought in the future...
who do you think would have ruled iraq in the event of saddam`s death(hint..he had two sons that were confirmed psychopaths)....
one thing we do know....they won`t be around to invade or mass murder or produce chemical weapons to pass on to terrorists wanting to do us harm.....
we now have an ally in the most crucial,strategic,volatile region in the world....where once was a sworn enemy that tried to produce nuclear weapons,paid suicide bombers and and plotted to assassinate a u.s. president ...
not to mention reneging on the agreement that saved his ass after the first gulf war.....resolution after resolution....
in saddam`s case it was 20-25 strikes and you`re finally out...
of course,we`ll never agree on this issue..and i don`t know whether it will turn out to have been the correct thing to do..just as you don`t...
i`ve said many,many times i`m still on the fence about the invasion....but i do understand the rationale for doing it...
it is what it is...