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We are not entirely at loggerheads here, BenThere. Because Mugabe presides over a country without strategic interest to anyone else, whether he invaded another country, had a loud party or killed a lot of his own citizens in a racist bloodbath, it's clear that nobody really cares.
You are correct in implying Saddam was a threat to world security to the extent that he controlled a lot of oil, and if he threatened to keep that from the major consumer of oil they were never going to be happy.
My point, as you would well know, is that the WMD fabrication was a crock of shit. Had Bush (and I've stated this repeatedly over the years) had the guts to say "we are going to invade these camel riding bastards because they have what we need and are threatening our supply of it", in other words been honest, he may have garnered a lot more support. The liberals would still have hated him, but sometimes brutal honesty is admired.
I am consistent in my view that the average American couldn't point to Iraq on a map, let alone name their leader or articulate any reason why American troops should be dying there.
This war is as much a political face-saving exercise as Vietnam ever was. The end result, sadly, will be the same.
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