In retrospect would it have been better not to invade Iraq?

Question

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but if we could go back in time would we not have been better to buy Saddam off and recruit him?

or

What we have done is right and just in removing such a dictator?

Answer 1

We would have been much much better shape. We would have thousands of young men still alive. And tens of thousands of soldiers not wounded or crippled.

And we would have hundreds of billions of dollars un-spent.

Right now, it is all mood point !

Continue to look at this, we still don't see an end to this yet. We don't know the total cost of remove this dictator will cost us.

Answer 2

Biggest mistake in the 21st Century so far... you can't go into a country where killing is common place and expect that just because you arrest the evil dictator that the people will change... they opened a can of worms that will not be contained... these people never wanted a Saviour named Bush and the situation is such a mess now that there really are not any other solutions than to keep sending our troops in to die to protect the whim of a Mad man who's Daddy owns alot of oil!!!

Answer 3

We, the British and the Americans, should never have invaded Iraq, yes there was a dictator in power, but look at life in Iraq before we invaded with "Shock and Awe" and now look at it. It was better before even under the dictator. And there is not much to chose between the three Dictators - Bush, Blair and Saddam

Answer 4

in my opinion we did right in removing the dictator because their people wanted to be free of him and they asked for our help. And most people we talked with there and here felt democracy in that area would be good for commerce and the world. We didn't go there with enough troops initially. And we made several other mistakes. So now the country wants to be split up into 3. I've not heard on the news yet, but from outside sources I heard one part of Iraq already petitioned the UN and has split. If we leave now it will mean civil war there. However we plan to stay anyway. Buy off a dictator? I think not.

I think it's funny how people point fingers and say we trained everyone who turned against us. Does that mean we should stop training? Or does that mean just that people are human and money hungry.

Answer 5

With hindsight I would say a dictator is exactly the only sort of leader that works over there. For a start he was totally against al-queda, and absolutely rejected the taliban. His torturings and killings seem minor in comparison to the situation now with suicide bombings and murders a daily occurance. Which is worse? Only time, more time,, will tell.

Answer 6

No...
Invading Iraq and taking out Saddams regeime was the right choice.
The problem was that we thought that the freed Iraqui's would be pleased to have their freedom and want to start a new democratic country where they could live in safety and freedom..
Instead, the different factions decided they wanted to kill each other first and terrorists seized upon the chaos and took the opportunity to try and carve out a new Islamofaschist regeime for themselves...

Answer 7

The biggest mistake in this war was not planning for the occupation. Rumsfeld threatened to fire any war planner who suggests planning for after the war.

It could have been done better.

Of course removing Saddam for the reason that he is a dictator is an illegal reason to goto war. So since there is no better justification, we should not have gone to war.

Answer 8

i think Saddam has never been a threat to the USA , i think bush is just doing something his father started as far as Saddam goes , we would be way better off if we had not invaded Iraq , cause now we have more enemy's than we already had , and the middle east hates us even more now, and probably Egypt and other places will all try to kill us now

Answer 9

Hindsight...that's another excuse. Millions of people around the world were protesting or speaking up as Bush and neocons were beating the war drums. Many of us were aware of the PNAC objective regarding Iraq back to the 1990s.

Answer 10

invading iraq was bloody stupid and blair and bush are brainless enough to do something as inane as this. yes i was happy when saddam was gone- but what about the chaos and carnage they created? and what progress has been made in finding osama bin laden. he was the mastermind behind 9/11- not saddam and yet he's still on the loose somewhere, when bush and blair should be focusing their efforts on getting him. but they are too thick to realise that. what a pair of d*ckwads they are.