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America is doing it right in Iraq : Comments
By Alistair Campbell, published 28/2/2005Alistair Campbell argues that the US was justified in invading Iraq and installing a democracy.
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(1) You claim Saddam's Iraq was growing in power and was a threat to the United states in some way.
This clearly false.
Iraq had been in terminal decline since the first gulf war - with the US, Britain and France no longer feeling the need to bolster Saddam's regime in order to punish Iran, and with the Soviet Union dead and no longer providing an alternative option for military and technical assistance, Iraq was effectively destroyed as a military power. The WMD programs Iraq had during the 1980's were dismantled and no longer existed by the turn of the century.
That was still the case when the invasion was launched.
(2) You claim that Saddam - a socialist, secular dictator who repressed fundamentalist Islamic movements within Iraq, was in league with the fundamentalist Islamic Al Qaeda organisation.
This is also false - Baathism and Al Qaeda are natural enemies - Saddam and his cronies would have nothing to gain by cooperating with those people as long as they remained in power.
Of course, now the US is occupying Iraq, they seem to be coming to the conclusion that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend".
I think you've been reading too much neo-conservative (ie. fascist) nonsense - maybe you should check out "The Power of Nightmares" to get an idea of what is really going on:
http://biggav.blogspot.com/2004/12/power-of-nightmaressounds-like-this.html
http://biggav.blogspot.com/2005/01/power-of-nightmares-bbc-showed-power.html