by psCargile » Wed Oct 15, 2014 12:56 pm
Whether Hussein's Iraq had deployable WMDs or not is rather a moot point if Hussein wasn't forthcoming on the UN resolutions to prove he didn't have them and was no longer a threat to his neighbors. He didn't comply, so what are what were we supposed to do? Just kinda hope he didn't have any?
I mean, we told him that he could avoid war by leaving Kuwait in 1990. He chose not to. We had to remove him. Had he pulled his troops out of Kuwait with a "My bad," history would have turned out different. But he lost, and we said you have to do X, Y, and Z, to end this conflict, or we going to have to take you out, and he didn't want to do it. WMDs or not, he failed to satisfy the conditions of his defeat, leading to a final invasion to end, as the UN called it, the conflict between Iraq and Kuwait. A lot of people separate the Gulf War from the Iraq War as independant wars, but they were part of the same war with the 11 year cease fire enforced by the northern and southern no-fly zones. So, in 2002, that war was still pretty much on-going, and it was only going to end with Hussein's compliance, or his removal. And he made his choice.
Whether Hussein's Iraq had deployable WMDs or not is rather a moot point if Hussein wasn't forthcoming on the UN resolutions to prove he didn't have them and was no longer a threat to his neighbors. He didn't comply, so what are what were we supposed to do? Just kinda hope he didn't have any?
I mean, we told him that he could avoid war by leaving Kuwait in 1990. He chose not to. We had to remove him. Had he pulled his troops out of Kuwait with a "My bad," history would have turned out different. But he lost, and we said you have to do X, Y, and Z, to end this conflict, or we going to have to take you out, and he didn't want to do it. WMDs or not, he failed to satisfy the conditions of his defeat, leading to a final invasion to end, as the UN called it, the conflict between Iraq and Kuwait. A lot of people separate the Gulf War from the Iraq War as independant wars, but they were part of the same war with the 11 year cease fire enforced by the northern and southern no-fly zones. So, in 2002, that war was still pretty much on-going, and it was only going to end with Hussein's compliance, or his removal. And he made his choice.