I Am Against Us Military Action In Syria

Remember First Gulf War, when Hussein attacked Kuwait? Someone reported that Iraqi soldiers took babies out of incubators in a Kuwaiti hospital and let them die. The story was proven false.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_(testimony)

Babies are perfect to arise emotional reactions and make public opinion accept the unacceptable. Almost three decades have passed and we are getting fooled again. We will never learn.

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room101 · 51-55, M

As dunpender says, Iraq invaded Kuwait. Kuwait, with the support of Saudi Arabia, went to the United Nations and asked for help. The UN Security Council agreed on military intervention to remove Iraqi forces from Kuwait.

Bottom line, regardless of false claims of atrocities etc., the first Gulf War was about as justifiable as any war can get.

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Mugin16 · 46-50, M

That is correct. But Kuwait still found it necessary to lie to the U.S. Senate. THey were probably afraid that U.S. was not going to war with Iraq despite the U.N. Security Council resolution.

room101 · 51-55, M

@dunpender: indeed it was. But for me, the biggest mess of the second war in Iraq was the fact that there was no thought given to a viable exit strategy and, who would take the reins once Saddam was deposed.

And it's the same thing that's bothering me about American intervention in Syria. With Trump at the helm, a guy who has less of an attention span than a goldfish and less geo-political knowledge than my nine year old niece, God only knows where this will end up.