Originally Posted by: DalronI pasted your phrase, "Iraq's threat to the United States", into Google and did some reading.

The only threat to the US by Iran was the one manufactured by the 'coalition of the willing' which includes my government.[/quote]
Iran? Typo?

Fieldable WMD systems at the time we invaded or not, Iraq had active WMD programs with the ultimate goal of taking over the entire region which includes several US allies, most notably Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. That's a big long-term stragetic problem for the US -- even if Saddam (or years to come, his sons) would have never tried to attack the US directly (not that anybody can reasonably say that they definitely wouldn't).

Originally Posted by: DalronThankfully there must be some sensible people in the govts concerned combined with the opposition to the war by the US, British and Australian people which has stopped Iraq becoming another Vietnam. Let's hope this sense prevails on the future of Iran.

I think Iraq never having had the potential to become another Vietnam has had more to do with Iraq not becoming one. Saddam's power base was a minority and the insurgency proves this first by largely being composed of non-Iraqis and second by making Iraqis their primary targets.



[QUOTE=Dalron]I guess we have to agree to disagree on this one.