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Originally posted by WJWheels
The "new" Afghani government is only days old. One could have said the same thing in 1776 about the "new" U.S. government. It was 200 years before a man could safely walk down the street in "most" of the country without a 6-gun at his side.
So a worst scenario for Iraq would have Kurd, Shia, Sunni, & whatever else fighting each other into eternity. Even here the worst threat of today's Iraq (IMHO) would still have been eliminated. Saddam's chemical, biological, & developing nuclear threat would be gone and no longer available to share with terrorists.
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His government is about 10 months old, and it will fall in a heartbeat once the US withdraws troops; his government loses popularity daily; 95% of the country doesn't obey the government and more than 2/3 of the people in the one city he controls hate the new government.
And realistically, if Iraq does lapse into civil war, which seems difficult to avoid, how many Sunni, Shi'ite, and Kurd deaths are an acceptable price to pay for ridding the world of Saddam? 10,000? 100,000? 1,000,000?
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