Sunday, December 03, 2006

Iraq

Idon't wish Saddam was back in power; I don't know anybody who does. But I wouldn't have chosen to send my soldiers to shift him in that way at that time.

But if we *had* left him where he was,
1. Upwards of 2,500 fine young Americans would not have been killed there;
2. Upwards of 200 fine young Britons would not have been killed there;
3. Hundreds and thousands of Iraqi civilians would probably still have died, but the name on the orders that led to their death would have been Saddam Hussein, not George Blair and Tony Bush.