Trump scores at #GOPDebate because countless ordinary people died and suffered immensely for Bush's Iraq war lies. pic.twitter.com/72tcLoLZt2
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) February 14, 2016
The story of Tyler Ziegel.
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Hillary also voted to go to war in Iraq in 2002. Bernie voted against it, but also voted against the war in 1990. So I guess if he had his way Sadam would still be ruling Kuwait and threatening or maybe even by now controlling Saudi Arabia or other gulf states.
I found this photo while checking out Twitter, but I've seen it before in People. Blumenthal posted it to make a political point against George Bush, without bothering to name Ty Ziegel. I supplemented the tweet with a link about Ty. His story is beyond the politics of who voted for or against war.
As for Saddam Hussein, if there were no Gulf War, would he still be ruling Iraq to this day? And would he have expanded his empire to Kuwait and the Gulf States? Possibly. He could also have died of natural causes or have been assassinated. Would one of his sons have taken over? Or would there have been a civil war anyway?
He did expand his empire into Kuwait. That is why the Gulf War was fought. His sons were worse than he was, so they probably would have kept them on an aggressive path. And who knows, without our military there in 1990 and 2003 maybe they would have been able to drop chemical or raidiologocal bombs on Israel or Iran or Saudi, etc.
Saddam did invade Kuwait and would have absorbed it into Iraq. Would he have gone further without the coalition's military intervention? These are questions to consider. Saddam's two sons, Uday and Qusay, were ruthless. But Uday was also reckless. He killed Saddam's valet at a dinner party. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamel_Hana_Gegeo
Whatever hopes Uday had of succeeding Saddam were gone. In fact, he was under a death sentence for a time. His younger brother Qusay was far less flamboyant and became heir apparent in 2000.
Back to Ty Ziegel. He came to national attention in this 2006 People magazine story. http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20059929,00.html
Like many soldiers and marines, Ty had a dark sense of humor about what'd happened to him. He didn't regret going to war. He just saw it as his duty.
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