Reply #24: Powell just forgot a simple point. [View All]

[The Backlash Cometh]

Going into Baghdad was going to create problems for us down the road. This we knew here on DU. Toppling Saddam was going to create another host of problems for us down the road. This we also knew. So it doesn't matter if they held confetti parades in the square and passed out free beer when they brought down Saddam's statute. It was the future repercussions we were afraid of.

It's kind of scary that Powell would think that one month of revelry was worth everything we're facing now.

You know what I really think? That one of the reasons that Rumsfeld and Co. were in favor of this raid, is that they could go in during the chaos and round up all their old allies, like Saddam, because they had too much information on them. I bet some of those people in Gitmo are really old contacts that knew too much.