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Originally posted by johnny:
But wouldn't it have been much easier to suck up during the weapons inspections ? Try to play as fair as possible ? Not sure, but that could have prevented an invasion all together. When the invasion started, a lot of countries were in favor of it, because he couldn't resist being a tough guy from time to time. If he would have presented himself as a victim of foreign aggression, and sticked to that, things might have been different. Now he lost everything.
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Nothing was going to prevent an invasion it was enivitable, but he could at least attempt to look like the victom. Granted he invaded Kuwait, he gassed the Kurds, but that wasn't recent news, people have forgetton about that so he hadn't done anything wrong (recently at least.) The majority of the worlds compassionate humans just see the US and UK laying a beatdown for no reason, ergo they look like the bad guy not Hussein.
Spark up the whole Palestinian issue one more time, and you have compounded on religous paranioa in the region, an us vs the west ideal. I'm willing to bet that the majority of the Middle East is against the US, but is too damn afraid to say so they publicly support them, whilst supplying weapons and arms to the guerilla movements.
The longer this drags out, the worse it looks for those who initiated it and the better it looks for Hussein.