Quote by pepeowhy did america not invade N korea before...
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1. iraq's army was destraoyed in 91
That was a misconseption. Much, much of the Iraqi Army remained intact (as they were never deployed to Kuwiat or in the vicinity of the Saudi Arabian/Iraq where the bulk of the conflict took place. Following the agreement made with Arab Allies, the US did not launch an invasion of Iraq in 1991. Infact, 50% of the Republican Guard survived the Coalition onslaught. Proof of the fact the Iraqi Army was not completely destoryed was the fact they were used to put down the Kurdish uprising in northern Iraq following the end of the Gulf War.
Quote: 2. iraq has oil
So does Venezula, Libya, Russia, heck even Canada and numerous other Countries that are memeber of OPEC. It would have been eaiser to invade Venezula if oil was our motivation. Even for the sake of aurgument it was for oil, once production in Iraq is stable and consistent, there is nothing to stop them from rejoining OPEC. (nullifying the oil argument).
Quote: 3. u tried to invade north korea aka korean war.
You leave out the fact the US participated in the Korean War in response to a UN resolution for military intervention against the North's invasion of the South. Had it not been for the intervention of China, there might not have been a North Korea to worry about today. You forget that following the Second World War, the American people were weary of war, and were'nt to thrilled to have become involved in another. Yet we did and at least saved South Korea.
Quote: ...but by the same token its not that smart to try invading every single country that anger you.
Yet with the capability at the US warfighters disposal, no one need set foot on North korean soil to incapacitate their war potential (or at the very least render their missile launching capapability impotent).