re: In hindsight; was removing Saddam Hussein a good idea?

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However, I meant more taking Berlin as in Patton pushing the soviets back across Eastern Europe at the end of the war. We would likely have had the Germans fighting alongside us in that endeavor

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Well launching a full scale attack against the Soviet Union while engaged in an alliance with them and "allowing Patton to take Berlin" are completely different things.

And that scenario was never remotely close to happening. Eisenhower and Roosevelt were NEVER willing to ally with the Germans against the Soviets. Any decision to stem the Soviet advance into Europe and to cooperate with the Germans to this effect would have occurred far sooner than April of 1945. It would have been criminal to wait until April to start a war with the Soviets when such objectives could have been much more easily achieved by acting sooner.