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Originally Posted by Johny Joe Hold
the threat of Iraq invading and occupying the United States was over and Iraq has been a successful country ever since then
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You are absolutely wrong with that, invading Iraq was the worst thing we could do. Invading Iraq only made the situation in the middle east far worse. Saddam was a bad man, but he was the only person in Iraq who was keeping the country together with his iron fist. George H. W. Bush stated multiple times the reason why he didn't topple Saddam was because Iraq will devolve into a failed state ruled by warlords, and he was absolutely right about that. The power vacuum that was left after we overthrew Saddam made it very easy for terrorist organizations to gain great power with Saddams abandoned arsenal of weaponry, one of the groups was al-Qaeda and they set a group called al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) which eventually transformed into the group ISIS. If we invade Iran and overthrow the current government there, try to imagine Iraq but 10 times worse.