> this "we shouldn't create a power vacuum" etc. type of reasoning is something I have a lot of problems with. You seem to have missed the point of that senten

> this "we shouldn't create a power vacuum" etc. type of reasoning is something I have a lot of problems with. You seem to have missed the point of that sentence, apparently by ignoring everything around the words "power vacuum". It was well known that Iraq would be a quagmire and a clusterfuck, for many reasons and not just that one. > So to go back to the top post: "America was wrong. Saddam was evil. They can both be true". At no point in any of my comments have I argued that America was right, or that Saddam was a nice guy. > I'll go a step further and say: "The Iraq War was a bad idea. Deposing Saddam was a good idea. They can both be true". In the real world, outside of hypothetical vacuums entirely, deposing Saddam was a terrible idea and W's Administration knew it. They said so themselves! Then they found a way to profit from it. Or should I say, profit again - because it was a lot of the same Admin who sold Saddam weapons and intel in the first place. Context matters.