On 05/08/2006, at 11:34 PM, Andrew Crystall wrote:
It was not an "error" to overthrow Saddam. Sure, your government lied to you about the reasons, and by all means call them to account for it, but overthrowing that sort of unstably dangerous tyrant isn't a mistake.
It is if you're replacing him with a vacuum. Saddam could have waited another 6 month or a year, with more and more pressure. The "Coalition" could have genuinely won the "hearts and minds" of the Iraqis. There must have been better ways than what they chose.
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