Anyone care to theorize what would be happening in Iraq and/or U.S. right now if the U.S. had never gone into Iraq and Saddam was still in power?
Continued thwarting of "inspections," by Saddam would make the headlines, and Iran would be flying under the radar, probably already with a Nuke. We would still be based in the "holy land" Saudi Arabia, acting as the best propaganda tool available to Al Queda. We might have been struck again here at home, as Al Queda would not be pre-occupied with fighting in Iraq. We would not be in Iraq, in position to pounce on Iran or Syria if need be. Democrats would be bellowing about how we lost our opportunity to take out Saddam when we had the chance.
Oh, forgot to add: Israel might have taken out Saddam itself by now, after Saddam lends increasing support to Hezbollah and Hamas.
Iraq would be the home of Al Quata, funded freely by Saddam. Saddam would be financially supporting anything they wanted. His goal would be a total destruction of the US before he died of old age. If he didn't do this, the terrorists would have taken over Iraq eventually anyway.
Late to this thread, but for starters: Saddam was trying to organize an oil embargo just before we went into Iraq. Gas would be about $5.00 to $6.00 per gallon. By now we would have been in a recession possibly on the verge of a depression. All because we were asking Saddam to simply live by the peace agreement he had signed at the end of the Gulf War. We would also have had lots of US troops still in Saudi Arabia, which apparently makes Al Qeada very angry (more 911's).
--Anyone care to theorize what would be happening in Iraq and/or U.S. right now if the U.S. had never gone into Iraq and Saddam was still in power?--
Zarqawi, Uday, and Qusay would still be at 98.6 degrees body temperature. Chemical Ali would be free to play golf with OJ.
Qadhafi would be holding on to his nukes.
The inspectors would have produced a whitewash report on WMD, and the UN would be applauded by the world.
The oil-for-food scam would be buried as deeply as the Venona cables. Kofing Anus would have won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Sanctions would have ended, allowing Saddam to fund whatever palaces & suicide bombers he wished.
The Enemedia would have blamed Bush for the high oil prices and worldwide recession, provoking a RATS election landslide.
President Jean-Francois Kerree and First Hag Teresa Heinz would be wining and dining leaders of Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad at the White House, together with Small Peanut Carter, Woody-for-brains Harrelson & the fat b@$t@rd who made that oscar-winning "9-11 documentary".
Justices Alcee Hastings and Lynne Stewart would be on the Supreme Court instead of Roberts & Alito.
Ambassador Monica Lewinsky would be in Paris, servicing Jacques Chiraq.