Plenty of you are opposed to invasion of Iraq so this question is mostly for you.

What should the US have done instead of invade Iraq if the invasion of Iraq was not the right course? Possibly, could the US have done much better in the execution of the occupation or in just not invading Iraq at all? Now if your answer is to not have invaded Iraq at all, what alternative course should have been taken?

open low-level formal relationships and institute expansive free trade.

Sell them McDonalds, KFC & Coke, watch them die off from heart disease.

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Originally posted by Lilith Sell them McDonalds, KFC & Coke, watch them die off from heart disease.

Aren't those icons of the great Satan?

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Finish the job in Afghanistan and then maybe look at Saddam antics

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Originally posted by chinamon not true. i say "ugh" but i am a tranny.

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Originally posted by kotsy lol colour me retarded

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Originally posted by Spacey Orange open low-level formal relationships and institute expansive free trade.

wasn't that the Oil for Food Program?

that can be taken literally or as a joke BTW. i prefer the joke.

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Originally posted by Krypton what alternative course should have been taken?

Against...? There was no reason to go there in the first place.

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Originally posted by Fir3start3r Aren't those icons of the great Satan?

There's icons of the 'not so great satan' and 'middle-management satan' as well?

But back to "What should the US have done instead of invade Iraq?"
I think essentially when most of the world says "Its a really, really dumb idea" the US could actually listen for a change instead of mocking them. But hey, if they get a bloody nose out of it, bleed out enough cash and look like complete fools it might make them a little less keen next time.
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Originally posted by Q5echo wasn't that the Oil for Food Program?

hmmm, no. i suggested that the US should have done to Iraq what the Chinese have done to the US.

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Originally posted by Spacey Orange hmmm, no. i suggested that the US should have done to Iraq what the Chinese have done to the US.

i hear what your saying but our form of government/free market ideals would make that impossible.

Gone to the moon and/or mars

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Originally posted by Q5echo i hear what your saying but our form of government/free market ideals would make that impossible.

ok that was an extreme example, but the us should have pursued a policy of exchange not embargo. the embargo had the positive effect of not allowing saddam from obtaining wmds, but it also created a dire situation (poverty/starvation) and hatred toward the us. the effects of which probably have impacted the resistance toward the occupation.

think of the goodwill that could have been created and what could have been avoided. the us policy of engagement similar to that employed elsewhere should have been employed here too. personally, i think the president was not sufficiently impartial to make any decisions regarding iraq.

in sum, i think firm and goal-oriented engagement would have been a preferable alternative to the actual policy which in my view was more disengagement and with a humanitarian trade bandage, as an afterthought. for this clinton bears a lot of reponsibility too, not just bush.