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re: See the alternate timeline and please tell me where my assumptions are wrong.
Scott Evil — (archived)

What if there was no US intervention in Iraq?

Alternate timeline:

1. UN Sanctions stay in place. Many Iraqis starve and/or die because of poor healthcare in the years 2004-???.
2. UN Oil for Food program continues. funds diverted to Terrorist and organized crime activities the world over in the years 2004-???.
3. Sadam stranglehold continues for a decade or more longer. Many Kurds, Shites, and others are exterminated in the years 2004-2010.
4. Sadam dies and eventually leaves two waring sons in charge of Iraq. Civil war ensues and perhaps 100,000-300,000 die in the years 2010-2020. Does the Civil war spill over into Turkey? Iran? Syria? Jordan?
5. Eventually one side wins the civil war through shear brutality. Iraq still has a madman dictator in power.

So you think the world was better off? Invading Iraq and killing 30,000 was unjustified and immoral?

Please tell me where my timeline is overly pessimistic. Can you come up with a more peaceful alternate timeline assuming the US invasion of Iraq never occured?

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