@CK_MacLeod I grant you that on more popular level, much of anti-war left overstated possibility of quick catastrophe (as against slow one)
@CK_MacLeod With 1st Gulf War, high cost of war avoided by letting Saddam stay in power, which created long run problems.
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@HeerJeet that wasn't the perception by 2002, however - before Gore turned dove he had opined that Bush I's error was not "going to Baghdad" -
@HeerJeet so the perception or argument was we had a chance to snuff out Saddam, fumbled it, leaving a genocidal tyrant with WMDs in place
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