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Originally posted by Spliffdaddy: What was Germany's way of disarming Saddam? I must have forgotten. |
well, lets see: I believe it was to better support inspectors.
What was Bush's way?
well, the method and goals have shifted, haven't they?
-- first the stated goal was to make saddam correctly report disarming weapons to the UN
-- Then it was to set a deadline the UN didn't want to set to make him comply (goal: compliance with reporting)
-- Then it was we were going to force him to disarm
-- Then it was we were going end his regime
-- then it was he should leave or be invaded
-- Then it was decapitate the regime
-- Then it was to prevent the oil wells from being torched
-- Then it was to free the Iraqis
-- Then it was to institute a democratic government using expatriots we had chosen
-- Then it was to warn other countries in the region not to get involved
-- then it was to warn other countries in the region that "they were next"
-- then it was to have a sort of updated plan to control the entire middle east and replace all governments there with versions that were more palatable to the west.
so......