Iraq, on the other hand, will probably never again be a producer of WMDs.
Sure you could and it's been done and being done. Set up a civil war and let them kill each other for generations to come. That's how the Turks manged to keep their empire.
The nuclear and biological programs went to hell, but the chemical infrastructure was all there to start manufacturing weapons inside of 30 days, in a nation full of starving people and serious infrastructure gaps practically everywhere, especially in his military capacity. '
Bush and team wanted a war, got the war they wanted, bungled it horribly, and now Iraq went from a secular dictatorship (a type of rule the Government doesn't like) which may have been a hedge against Iran; to the recruiting ground for pro-Iranian militias.
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