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Originally Posted by Chris
Saddam was a nasty piece of work, but his adventures in Kuwait had already given us all the justification required to contain him. Invading Iraq and removing him has seriously undermined our moral authority and made it easier for far nastier people to build power bases in the country.
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That is true, because there was no peace plan. Kicking the Ba'athists out of work wasn’t the best of ideas either.
The war was successful. The resulting occupation was a disaster.