Thursday, January 11, 2007

Goals For Going Into Iraq

Note, these were my personal goals and the reasons I supported the war and not necessarily reflective of other war supporters reasons, ie the President's plan.

1. Kick Saddam Hussein's Ass [DONE]
2. Tech Lesson to Dictators: Don't thumb nose at world. [?]
3. Do Not Allow Iraqi WMDs into Terrorist Hands [DONE - albeit in a round about way - we thought Saddam had them, or might have them, and we were getting our hands on them first. Turns out, he didn't have them...but we still achieved the goal. It's debatable whether it was worth the cost.]
4. Bring Model Democracy To Region to counterbalance dictators and religious extremists [NOT DONE]
5. Ensure Iraq will not be a terror state for another generation with Uday and Qusay [NOT DONE - yes, the Tikrit brand of Sunni terror is gone but there could be another form, that of Shiite religious fanatics taking over]
6. Kill Lots of Al Queda [?]

this post isn't done, but I need to think about it more...

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