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Originally Posted by ISiddiqui
We could have been much better to our allies
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Why? What good would it have done? A country like France just wanted to preserve its own self-serving interest as the being the major importer of Iraqi oil, not for humanitarian and democracy reasons. Even if they were on board, we will still had to do all the dirty work and opinions would not have changed. They (and the Germans) are very grateful that Saddam is no longer in power in the ME, esp. since they didn't have to get their hands bloodied in the process.
I have never been wild about the methods in "selling" the war but as with a lot of wars throughout history, the end can justify the means, however ugly they were and still are. The American Civil War is the best example of this, esp. when Lincoln and his Administration had to use every tactic known to justify and prolonge the war to a very divisive Union.