Quote Originally Posted by WebHead
Perhaps,.. but my point isn't about the 'names' of the different groups that live there,.. it's the fact that there ARE different groups that live there that hate each other.

Can you give me an example of which Iraqi nationalism you are speaking of?
Well, wrbby, it would definitely help your debating effort if you could get facts straight! You go spouting off rhetoric, and you don't even know what you are talking about. Little advice here: do at least "some" research before you post a flame at jaeger!
BTW, I see that he gave you a perfectly valid "example" and YOU summarily dismissed it and chose a new tact! Cool, though! That, in fact does reveal much!
Quote Originally Posted by web
A reasonable solution is to let them figure it out for themselves. People don't like to be told what to do no matter how wrong or right the words are.
Of course they don't, but this was not about "people"! It was about an outlaw regime headed by Saddam, who wasn't even a "popular" leader, but was a despot!
Quote Originally Posted by wrbby
I don't know of anyone that thought an Iraq war would be easy. Thats main reason the UN, most of the USA and most of the world DIDN'T WANT THE WAR IN THE FIRST PLACE. War is supposed to be used as a LAST RESORT and not to FORCE PEOPLE TO OBEY YOUR WILL
The UN, the US, and most of the world? I think not! So, now you are France? With her own duplicitous reasons for nixing the UN resolution and resolve? Well, that explains alot. A last resort? Is that what war is supposed to be for? In whose book? There is a difference between proactive and reactive. If the whole west had been more PROactive towards the moves by Hitler, the whole history of the 20th century would be rewritten.