When Saddam was re-elected he ONE HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE VOTES....are you going to tell me that people wern't afraid if they voted against him??
Then after his Government was overthrown and he was taken out of power, then caught, then prosicuted (by his own people) then convicted (by his own people) people lining up left and right to be Saddams executioner.
Yes, then I must be delutional !!
Here's the deal...
Not even Bush believes that you can invade sovereign nations, at least if you consider yourself a democracy.
You can't interfer in internal affairs, that's an old US policy. USA doesn't want anyone commenting or trying to work influence on their internal politics, and no country really does.
Why, then, did USA invade Iraq?
The question should perhaps be, HOW could they found a reason to invade Iraq?
The Bush Administration claimed they had a reason, they found a loophole.
They claimed that Saddam Hussein broke the conditions that UN had set up, and also that there were hidden war missiles.
The conditions that Hussein supposedly broke, was flights in the non-flight zone.
It was just a bunch of hogwash of course. USA had no legit reason to start a war with Iraq.
Not according to the principles that all modern states are based on, the sovereignity.
You keep things apart in this matter. Saddam Hussein was a dictator, and had to go.
But USA had no business moving in with an army in Iraq.
IAEA was well underway with disarming Iraq when USA invaded Iraq, and UN could very well have moved in organised forces.
Not even the Bush administration will argue that they invaded Iraq because they wanted to liberate the Iraqi people.
They will give WMD explanations, refer to reports from CIA that had Hussein linked to Al-Qaida... And the usual bullshit.
But if they claim that they invaded Iraq simply to free the Iraqi people, Intensone... Boy, then Bush and his Puppeteers will have the media hounds of hell unleashed on them.
That would mean that every countries like China, Belarus, North Korea Somalia, Rwanda, Nigeria, and at least 50 other countries, would be legit, and expected targets for US warfare.
There would be an obligation to go there and "free" these countries.
-Hedge