• generalpotato@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Read my comment again. I’m not making excuses and Saddam didn’t need to exist beyond the moment in time the first time he took a human life.

    The point which you missed was that we have the ability to take out tyrants without having to cause 30k civilian casualties and decimate towns/cities. We didn’t do that, we went blood thirsty and inflicted so much damage on a sovereign nation and its citizens that it created a generation of Iraqis and people in the broader region that hates the US.

    We took out OBL and have toppled numerous regimes without using excessive force.

    This whole notion of us taking out Saddam because of us being some benevolent nation for good is complete bullshit. We went in there for oil and because Saddam didn’t let us have it, so we made it a point to take him out by any means necessary, using the WMDs cover-up.

    The US has a history of getting cozy with dictators and letting them kill and pillage their own people as long as it serves our interest.

    The Iraq “war” was a massive fuck up and mistake. Nobody should be decorated for it.