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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
I don't understand where this idea comes from that they would have had to "waste" political capital in order to waste this guy. Who was going to be upset? This was a terrorist group operating in Kurdistan, out of Saddam's control. The notion that someone would have seen this as an incursion on Saddam's sovereignty is laughable -- it was in the no-fly zone. "Small fish" to Saddam? No one is suggesting that this guy was allied with Saddam.
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You must be kidding right? 1/3 of the EU was upset that we went in after 12 years and 17 fucking resolutions. If, at the time we were attempting to build a coalition, we went in unilaterally to assinate this cat, there would have been an uproar and I suspect that we would never have gotten 1441 passed (not that it matters at this point, because half the country has ignored that we had the legal right to go in under international law).
I meant "small fish compared to" Saddam.
