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Originally Posted by Nate the great
What would you have Bush do instead? I see that he only had 3 options: relax the sanctions, continue them indefinitely, or invade. To relax the sanctions after 8 years would let Saddam win, and be a sign of weakness. To keep the sanctions indefinitely would hurt the Iraqis and not affect Saddam. This leaves us with invasion.
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Do you honestly believe that the world is a safer place as a result of the invasion of Iraq, or that America's standing in the world has been enhanced by it? When the President of the United States says in public that his country is engaged on a "new crusade" - ie a war against Islam - is it any wonder that the Islamic world is going to consider that in what, to put it mildly, is a "negative light"? To use the word "crusade" is monstrously provocative.