Do you think removing Saddam was a mistake now that civil war is happening in Iraq?

Question

if there was a time machine and you can go back and not invade Iraq and you agree to that then isn't the invasion was all wrong??

Answer 1

it was a mistake, but the civil war has nothing to do with it. It was a mistake because we did it alone against UN orders, we did it on faulty intelligence, we did it on a Bush lie that Saddam funded the 9/11 attacks, and the invasion was never supposed to become an occupation.

Answer 2

Well, Saddam was the only thing preventing a civil war. I personally don't feel that Saddam was as big of a threat as his sons were. Though Uday would probably have been killed within a few years anyways. Probably by his own family. Leaving Quesay who's much more blood thirsty then his dad and could probably get one of the nukes floating around from the old USSR day. So this potential major future threat has been thwarted but it has come at a cost and a headache that'll last for years if not forever. So I'd say the invasion was a mistake but not necessarily all wrong.

Answer 3

Well, hindsight is always 20/20. I believe removing Saddam was a huge mistake which the region will feel for decades to come. Levels of torture now are higher than they were during Saddam's reign. Like it or not, he also kept that country together (by force, true, but it definitely beats a civil war). Hundreds of people are dying in a truly brutal cycle of violence. We made a mistake. We need to fess up to it. So to answer your question, yes. I most definitely would go back in time and not invade Iraq.

Answer 4

it's not that removing Saddam was a bad idea... but the first question you have to ask is did we have the right to do it... i believe yes but i also can't argue with someone who says no because both arguments have very valid points... well that cat is out of the bag so the next question would be after we removed Saddam did we really need to try and run/set up a country that doesn't want us there and doesn't understand our way of life? the answer there is no.. we should have and still should get a country more like Iraq to come in and help set up the nation... the area would settle down some because a LOT of the violence is because it is America there.. not because they are trying to set up a government... Pakistan is more than capable of running the policing there and the Iraqi people would accept them much quicker than they ever would an American occupation.. we still look good because it was our idea, and we build relations with Pakistan (a nuclear power) and Pakistan gets to build relations with both the US and Iraq (a major oil producing nation).

Answer 5

There already is a Civil conflict, yet sure Saddam's execution gained't purely fan the flames yet in all probability spread the violence and hatred in the route of human beings and between the Sunnis and Shiites to different international places contained in the midsection East.

Answer 6

Removing him was not necessarily wrong, the fashion it was done was not correct. We should have made him sign a surrender on behalf of the Iraq government and taken him to the Hague for crimes against humanity.

Allowing the Iraqi government to collapse and disorder and chaos to replace it was the mistake that has led to the Iraqi Civil War.

Answer 7

Yes. Many thousands of people would still be alive, a lot less terrorist would exist and Saddam would still be under control and contained. Not to mention that the USA would be a safer place now.

If we were so upset about Saddam killing his own people, then why did we wait 15 years to do something about it. The infamous gas attack took place in March of 1988. The United States refused even to condemn the killing of civilians.

Answer 8

When one excercises, what I perceive to be, a presumed right to interfere in the affairs of a foreign nation, one gathers to oneself a host of ills. There is a vast difference between the Roman Republic, and The Roman Empire. An Emperor, by definition, is a Military Ruler.

Answer 9

When any govt is removed there is always a void and civil war follows. what do you think is going to happen? Not sleeping through history class might have answered that part. If you have a time machine go to the future and see that we had to start somewhere. You dont attack the jugular in real world military conflicts. you have to attack the limbs to prove you are serious or you will be engulfed on all sides if you jump toward the heart.

Answer 10

Not only was it a mistake, it was wrong by any standard. It was wrong when the "Evil Empire" (U.S.S.R.) invaded sovereign countries, eliminated the leaders and forced their system on them "for the good of the oppressed masses." It's no less wrong when the U.S. (under the direction of the Soviet inspired neo-cons) does exactly the same thing.

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