I have never heard that one before until Brian came up with it a week ago. I didn't ask Brian to validate it even though it sounds like complete crap to me. Kuwait was so small it was more like an oil company with a passport office than a real country. It was a perfect target for a hostile takeover, although not by the usual way of secretly buying a majority of shares. They already possesed oceans of oil and they would have to be crazy to provoke a war mongering psychopath like Saddam Hussein.Mortdooley wrote
Kuwait was stealing the natural resources of their neighbor and got caught.
You probably believe in multiculturalism and Human Induced Global Warming if you are dumb enough to believe that crap. The US and it's reliable allies (exclude Australia who's "army" is a joke) told Saddam in no uncertain terms to get out of Kuwait or they would throw him out. He did not negotiate for reparations for any alleged "theft", he declared Kuwait a part of Iraq and started digging in. He was convinced that the west consisted of Brian Ross and Mortdooley clones who would be too gutless to chuck him out. He even bragged about how the US had got out of Vietnam after only 62,500 dead. Iraq had lost around 50,000 men in every one of his eight attacks on the Fao peninsular, and it did not worry him one bit. THAT was the sort of psychopath he was.Mortdooley wrote
Saddam didn't want the whole country.
Just the area used to steal his oil! A negotiated withdrawal with just compensation for stolen oil would have been the better outcome. No reason to topple his government after 9/11 since he had nothing to do with it!
Saddam Hussein really did think he could go to war with the USA and win. He thought that all he had to do was dig in with his huge and very well equipped army, and the yanks would be too scared to attack. And if they did attack, it would be a stalemate like the Iran-Iraq war, and the yanks would go home after their own populations rebelled over the mounting casualty list, just like in Vietnam. He would then be a hero to the Arab and Muslim world.
For God's sake go to the library and pick up a book. THAT is why I can run rings around you and Brian. I enjoy reading this stuff.
You mean when the USA bombed him with F-111's and carrier planes and damned near killed him? Which scared the ever lovin shit out of him? Thank you for bringing that up so that I could prove to you that standing up to tyrants can have a positive outcome.Mortdooley wrote
Ghaddafi had not been a problem for the West since Reagan, any internal problems were their own to deal with.
Doing nothing doesn't work either. What the correct course of action is can be hard to determine. Nobody wants a war. But the world learned in 1938-39 that if you appease totalitarian tyrants with their expansionist ambitions, you are just putting off the trouble they will cause when they are strong enough to attack you. The US army in 1939 was a joke, just like the Australian "army" today is a joke. The USA in 1939 had a total of two tanks in it's entire army. After being bombed into the last war, the USA is a lot more realistic about standing up to tyrants today. It will not allow a war mongering psychopath like Saddam Hussein to get stronger by invading other oil rich countries and threaten the world's oil supply. Oil is blood to advanced societies.Mortdooley wrote
Taking out the Leaders of these countries didn't make the World a safer place.
You don't know history anywhere near well enough. One reason why the USA is pulling back from being the world's policeman is because of the endless criticisms of it's actions on behalf of people like you and Brian Ross who never cease attacking them, no matter what they do. It is bad enough losing thousands of your best young men in battle but much worse when the people you are protecting have no gratitude for your efforts. The yanks are beginning to realise just how unreliable it's 'allies' are and that was one of the reasons why Trump won the election. He promised to pull the USA out of overseas conflicts on behalf of an ungrateful world that never stops criticising them. But they are on the horns of a dilemma with Iran.Mortdolley wrote
And yes, I do know history and spending American lives and treasure in those countries doesn't serve the interests of the USA!
The Iranian population does not want war any more than the populations of Japan or Germany wanted war. But Japan and Germany were totalitarian governments who's rulers definitely did want a war. And in totalitarian states, the population does what it is told. The mullahs want war for the same reasons why Hitler, Galtieri, Tojo, Mussolini, and Saddam Hussein wanted a war. To deflect internal unrest and rally the population behind them by engaging in a war with an external enemy. That is why the mullahs are provoking the USA. Instead of criticising the US, you should be congratulating Trump on his forebearance for not allowing the mullahs to provoke him into a war. So far.