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u/whiskeyisneat · 2 pointsr/ChristopherHitchens

You can look at all his articles on Slate (starting here) where he argues for the Iraq war. They are the same articles that he put into A Long Short War his book justifying his stance on the Iraq war.

u/Ragdolla · 1 pointr/todayilearned

North Korea was and still is backed by China. Invading NK would have lead to god knows what. As for the "no evidence to base an invasion." That statement is pretty ridiculous. Literally decades of turmoil and terror to his own people as well as endangering those bordering Iraq, Saddam needed to be taken out sooner or later. Since no country would object to it, fuck it, we might as well go in and help the country out. Again, it seems that the good intent of the US to rid a country from the death grip of a dictator gets more criticism than the horrendous acts of the regime itself.

It seems as though the biggest anti-war and humanitarian people have the least worry for people living under the rule of savages around the world. Taking the "it's not our problem" stance is becoming shockingly more prevalent. Of course it's our problem, we're humans. Just because it's happening over there and across an imaginary border does not mean we should ignore the injustices inflicted on innocent people.

Hindsight is 20/20. You can find a million things to pick apart how the intervention in Iraq played out, but people seem to attack events that were not planned nor wished for. I'm simply saying that the initial invasion was a completely justifiable and necessary choice.

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