“I actually agree with the Iraq invasion”
On the Iraq war I’m torn, in hindsight I don’t think the arguments were strong enough to warrant a war, but it’s easy to say that in hindsight (at the time I supported parliaments decisiveness).
If the intelligence was accurate (and it apparently wasn’t) then there was a very strong argument to do more, but war has got to be the very last option in that type of country: it’s so difficult to win the peoples hearts during a war in those types of countries.
The Iraq war has cost a lot of lives and a lot of money and it’s resulted in even more hatred towards Britain (and the USA) from the Middle East (globally) and instability in the region (we took our attention off of Iran, far bigger threat).
If they (US and British governments) wanted to get rid of Saddam Hussein why didn’t they have him ‘removed’ by a group they wanted in power?
It’s going to takes decades, maybe generations for Iraq to move on from the Iraq war, they will not thank us for their freedom and democracy! I expect long term Iraq will be a better place for Iraqi’s, but it could have been managed much better IMHO.
David
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