Iran is Safer Without Saddam Hussein. World Isn't.

Bush, Cheney, and the Republicans need to stop getting away with saying "The world is safer without Saddam Hussein." It isn't true. Even the last feeble, desperate fig leaf Bush and his followers place over their naked failure is simply a disgraceful falsehood. The world isn't safer without Saddam Hussein. Iran is. Leave aside that Bush opened Iraq up to Al Qaeda and left Afghanistan to the Taliban. To the extent that "pre-nuclear" Iran is now considered more of a threat to the world than it was prior to Bush's war, the world is less safe. Bush took care of Saddam for Iran.

Prior to the war, Iran was counterbalanced by Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Iraq invaded Iran to start the Iran-Iraq War, and that ruinous war ran from 1980 to 1988. Iran suffered tremendous losses and was gravely weakened by Saddam Hussein. Bush's Iraq War, thankfully for Iran, took Saddam Hussein out of the picture and gave control of Iraq to the Shia. Iran now has a friend in Iraq, a friend over which Iran has tremendous political influence.

The world isn't even one iota safer without Saddam Hussein. It is less safe. Bush's father actually did make the world safer from Saddam Hussein by defeating and bottling him up in the Gulf War. Bush, the son, engineered a major loss of national and world security at tremendous cost.

We can keep pretending that the Iraq War bought us an ice cream cone at the price of a house, but that's just denial. There isn't even an ice cream cone.

And demonstrate the "validity" of their reasoning first hand.

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