[quote ]dhdqh Observer Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: north dakota Quote: like i said before, if you stand beside someone with a big stick you're relatively safe unless you start provoking them......maybe you could give me a history lesson on canda covering the US's back thoug........military deterrence is much more effective with stronger countries that have more to lose than smaller rogue countries....i don't think south korea would be a country if the US weren't deterring the North....that is just theory though.....[/quote] So tell us how Iraq provoked America? Other than by tweaking George Bush’s desire to be a war president?