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Originally posted by baltassoc
Very few people think Saddam is a good guy. Most questioning is not whether toppling Saddam was a good idea from a moral perspective,
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Oh please. Invading Iraq is being talked about as a war crime. Many people are questioning the morality. You even just questioned my ethics for defending the invasion "It's ironic that you are the one who defends moral absolutism."
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Originally posted by baltassoc
but why, in light of a) our tolerance of his existance for a dozen years and
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Who care is we tolerated it. We realized that was wrong. Just because you have done something in the past doesn't mean it is a good idea to continue to do so.
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Originally posted by baltassoc
b) the existence of other threats, we chose the moment we did to invade.
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That is why I brought up those other countrys before. Not like you said, to argue they were a threat ergo invade Iraq, but to demonstrate that they were not as much of a threat and invading them was impractical. Iraq was a threat, and we had the means with which to do it and we could do it.
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Originally posted by baltassoc
Without a plan on how to control the country after we got in. Taking a chance on invading Iraq to make it a more prosperous place might have been the moral choice. But doing so in such a manner so as to minimize the chances of that prosperity (by not having a plan to establish control and order), is absolutely unmoral. And not in the long term interests of the US.
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So are you saying if we had used enough troops that the invasion of Iraq would have been OK? In other words it was not the invasion, but they way we carried it out? You know and I know you don't believe that.
