Originally posted by mbSVT:
Okay, so what was so pressing about Slobodon Milosevic in Serbia? Same situation... highly cruel, mass genocide, inept politics, but no realy threat to global politics/economics, only regional problem.

My understanding is that it's a different situation. To the best of my knowledge, Slobodon wasn't pursuing a nuclear or biological program that would even further destabilize matters. Nor was he ever charged with hoarding WMD and he didn't threaten the use of of either. I have this nagging notion that the former Yugoslavia had dismantled their nuclear program sometime in the 60's or 70's...

Have to check on that one.

Anyway, Hussein was known to have nuclear ambitions which MADE him an international concern. There still is the question of missing chem and biochem agents as well, that is unresolved to this day.

I do remember the ethnic cleaning issues that Milosevic was associated with, though I will plead ignorance on anything else past that, the reasons the US/UN/NATO went in or the politics involved. I never followed it that closely and certainly haven't read much about it.

Originally posted by mbSVT:
Were you singing the same song when Liberal GodChild Billy Clinton attacked Milosevic with our military? Doubtful.

In all honesty, I was asking "what in the hell are we doing there?" as I knew little about what was going on in the region then. I did know that the UN held some involvement and that US troops were sent as a "stabilization" force.

I didn't have a problem with our actions there, nor did I have any rabid support for them, either. As I said, I'm embarrassingly ignorant on the post-USSR struggles in SE Europe and Asia in the '90s...

Originally posted by mbSVT:
Whether Hussein had international impact as a head of state is debatable, whether or not he harbored terrorists is less debatable, but as the supreme leader of a country, he certainly had far more than the simple capacity to become a world player just in terms of providing shelter and support to terrorist organizations, let alone the impact he could have on the oil supply.

I for one think that he did need to go, although I don't appreciate Bush's stretching of the truth (if the claims are indeed legitimate)



I agree that for many in the US and the world, the jury is still out on this current adminitration. The shame of it is that those same people a decade back were screaming for the UN to setup weapons inspections over suspicions of his WMD stockpiles because of the overt FEAR that Hussein would try and use them again. Fast forward to today; the US and it's allies do something about the matter to settle the nagging question and threat once and for all, then get stabbed in the back by those same countries that UNANIMOUSLY supported the UN resolutions due to the intelligence gathered, shared and AGREED upon by all parties.

It's a sad commentary on the left-leaning media in the US and abroad that this is totally swept under the carpet and forgotten...

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