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Gulf War vs Iraq War

aplusmnt

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I might be wrong but it seems like there was no Anti War rallies when we went to war with Saddam to protect Kuwait? Why is it alright to go defend another Muslim nation that hates us as all of the do. But when we feel it is in our Best interest of National Security to finish Saddam off, then it is all bad.

The world and libs at home accept us defending anyone else as long as it is not ourselves. :mad:

Seems we can go to any of those Muslim nations with our armies to protect the Muslims from the Muslims but let us go attack them to protect ourselves and the world gets all bent out of shape. :mad:
 

IL Rancher

Well-known member
Aplus those two situatons are so different... 1) A soverign country was invaded by Saddam back than.. And he was making leering glances towards Saudi too.... 2) it was over very, very fast. If Bush had allowed the troops to goto baghdad and remove Saddam from power you would probably have the same thing going on that is going on right now. The Arab countries wouldn't like it, the European countries would have balked at people an occupational force and it would have been the US and probably some of the 'Coalition of the willing" that would have stayed.

You did not see, and do not see a lot of protesting on the Afghanistan operation, except of course by some mulsims and it has much more international support for the very reason it was a more defined, more obvious target... In general this country is an instant gratification country and it is only getting worse.. If the job is done and finished in 180 days than no one really complains.. When it is going on 4 years people get a bit tired of it and want it to be over and done with so they can move on and do something else. It is a shame because this whole process is going to take decades to play out... I personally have always been of the opinion of give the military a job and let them do it.. Give them the tools, the manpower and the time and latitude they need and get out of the way... I am pretty sure they haven't been given 100% of any of these things and that is a shame.
 
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