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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Help me.
We believed he once had tons of chemical weapons- correct?
We asked him to prove he had destroyed it- he would not or could not prove it- correct?
How could "containment make you feel safe?
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There are no perfect solutions. Containment carried risks. To understand where the WMD were, we would have had to invade and occupy the country, and that had its costs, too. And we still don't have perfect information.
eta: Knowing what we now know about Saddam's capabilities, is it not crystal clear that more Americans and Iraqis have died than would have died had we continued a strategy of containment?
As I said to you the other day, who gave a shit about chemical weapons? Lumping the chemical in with the biological and nuclear was a useful way of making him sound more menacing, but chemical weapons are difficult enough to use in a military context, and they weren't a threat to the U.S.
