Where If Not Iraq?
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
With September 11 in recent memory, Saddam Hussein’s defiance of U.N. resolutions, Iraqi artillery firing on U.S. and British aircraft in the no-fly zone and horrendous treatment of Kurdish and Shia populations within Iraq, President Bush enjoyed widespread political support for the March 2003 invasion of Iraq by Allied Forces. Major detractors would be France, Germany and Russia who’s substantial financial interest in the Saddam regime led them to delay U.N. actions and assure Saddam the U.S. would not follow through with warnings of the pending invasion. Still, on the home front, most Republicans and Democrats alike supported what was not only perceived as a retaliatory strike but the removal of a tyrannical despot as well. (more…)