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  Western intersets and American interests are not always the same thing. The cold war period saw American planning based around fighting the war in Europe, great for them but terminal for us. During Gulf War 1 they encouraged uprising against Sadam but then pulled back from supporting them. This time they dragged us all in for spurious reasons and without learning anything from the previous conflict. To his credit our own MP voted against the war, although he then backtracked by voting against any investigation into why it was begun. While Sadam was without doubt a man who needed deposing his regime still saw more women in education than in any other muslim majority country and was the only one to have christians in positions of authority. Other means of forcing a regime change could have been and should have been looked into rather than rushing into the insane glory of a war for which none of its planners had any ideas for the country beyond the conflict. It would be nice to think that "Western Interests' would be better served by civilising rather than destabalising other nations.

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