[dfwgator]

Saddam Hussein was exactly the leader Iraq needed. He was a scumbag dictator who knew full well how to keep the faces of The Greater Islamic Scum down in the dirt where they belong. The removal of Hussein from power was a major foreign policy blunder on our part, a blunder which I myself supported at the time. My excuse: I wasn’t being paid to know better.

Right there with you. I now think the First Gulf War was a mistake, who cares about Kuwait? Just Muzzies who do a slightly better job of acting like our "friends", like the Saudis.

[samtheman]

In principle I agree with you about the First Gulf War but the thing I liked about that one is that it did allow us to pin down Iraq with constant over-flights and a declared no-fly rule for the Iraqi air force. We were in a great position with regard to Iraq (and the whole Middle East) after the First Iraq War and then we gambled and lost in the second war, with good intentions, as others have noted, but without much hope of success.

[VerySadAmerican]

I won’t say I was against the second war because I wasn’t. I did not think we should have taken Hussein out. We should have clipped his wings a little.

But I was dead set against the first gulf war. We should have let the Arabs handle it.