Well saidOriginally Posted by hobbesSaddam killed his own citizens as he pleased.
The sanctions only took resources from the Shia and common Iraqi citizens. These resources were focused on supporting Saddam's Sunni friends and his military.
As Rat pointed out, Iraqi's were dying left and right (100's of thousands) due to a lack of effort from Saddam to provide for his people, in combination with sanctions.
The war SAVED Iraqi lives.
I'm a bit baffled as to how Saddam, who was building palaces the entire time, was at all interested in these silly sanctions. They didn't effect him one iota.
The sanctions were imposed to induce revolution, it didn't work and wasn't going to.
Bottom line, we wanted him out, he is out.
As for missile strikes, China has never bombed us. Am I to assume they cannot? 9/11 taught us that a stitch in time saves nine. Saddam was a pretty easy stitch. China, that is another matter, but if we could disarm them, we damn sure would.
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