Originally Posted by reccles44

I must say you are just a tad bit of an idiot. First of all, if the USA and the British did invade Germany they would have had every right to do so because Hitler violated every aspect of the treaty that brought the end to WW1. He thumbed his nose up at all nations who wanted to reign him in. They even gave him a couple of countries just to shut him up.

Nope, we gave Iraq the same choices. Only this time history was remembered and you cannot ever give a dictator bent on world or regional control any latitude at all. You give them an inch and they will take a yard. In this case we gave Saddam a lot of feet and he took miles.

Terror was just but one reason to invade Iraq. If you ask me, and I am no war monger...but we should not have let ourselves get so bogged down in Iraq so we would have the strength to take out Syria and Iran as well. I think history will eventually prove the mistake of not taking them out.

We don't need world consensus on our own security. We didn't in WWII or Korea or Vietnam. But do to public and world pressure we did not do what was needed to win Korea or Vietnam. The same mistakes cannot be made again. Wars cannot be political. People die when that happens that should not have died. Do what you gotta do with overwhelming force and be done with it.