Paul J. Adam wrote:

That's right: Hussein killed something like 30,000 people in the space
of a month or two. Back in 1991, right under the noses of UK and US
troops, who were ordered to sit tight and do nothing when the Shi'ia in
Basra and the south rose up against Hussein.

Where was the urgency to act back when the mass graves were still being
filled, and some of their occupants could have been saved?

But *you* are so concerned with trying to find the Big Lie that you
don't care about the hundreds of medium-sized Ugly Truths.

I'm just curious about the stop-go attitude.

Because the authority at the time felt further US involvement to
remove Hussein would lead to a massive breakdown of any sort of
authority, a likely multi-dimensional civil war, fragmentation of
the coalition and US forces being stuck in the country for years
to follow.

Sound familiar?

The difference was 9/11 happened in 2001, not 1990.

Yes you can argue 9/11 was terrorism and the Iraqi war something,
else, but rightly or wrongly, they have become somewhat bundled
as part of an overall package now.


SMH