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If the Iraq War was wrong, why didn't the world stop America?

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GregorioMusallini

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According to the internet, the Iraq War was wrong, and the USA shouldn't have invaded them because it:

- led to the deaths of a million people,
- devastated the Iraqi economy,
- plunged the region into chaos which killed thousands more,
- the chaos created extremist groups which killed thousands more, including in faraway countries,
- caused a mass exodus which europe had to deal with.

So, why didn't the world unite to stop the USA in the first place to prevent all that? And no, I mean stop using speeches and rallies; I mean stop them using force.

Or send aid to the Iraqi military so they can fight off the Americans, like what China and Russia were doing with Vietnam?
 

Ever heard of this thing called World War III? That's why.
 
I still haven't gotten over the fact that I spend over a decade trying to convince my rightwing family that the Iraq War was a bad idea... but once Dear Leader said it was bad they all immediately changed their minds.
 
Welcome back.
 
The world supported the Iraq War until it turned out it was based on faulty intelligence. By the time the world came around on it we had a new president who opposed the war and was at least nominally committed to winding it down. Plus there was a global recession. Is this a serious question?
 
Lol not plausible on any level.

Firstly, Iraq is basically almost land locked, with a grand total of one major port city. Bringing in troops via sea isn’t really a possibility, which means you’d have to use one of the two possible land routes— either from Syria(whose leaders hate Saddam due to the Ba’ath Party split decades earlier) or Iran(whose leaders hate Saddam due to him invading and gassing their civilians with American help.)

Also, uh, the guy was a genocidal maniac who created a copy of the Quran written in blood. Not exactly a stable partner.

Of course, the war was blatantly one of aggression in which the U.S. happily committed numerous war crimes, but nobody was going to risk war to help Saddam, even if they could get their troops to Iraq in the first place
 

Funny, but I remember repeated massive peace demonstrations in the capital cities of Western Allies that supported GWB’s invasion of Iraq — London, Rome, Madrid, plus DC. (More than a million were in streets of London.)

There were demonstrations in Europe and Asia. The ElBaradei of the IAEA pushed back against the bogus claims of Iraq’s WMD. Hans Blix of the UN monitoring team said there was no evidence of WMDs in Iraq.

Other than launching a military attack against the U.S., there was no way VP Richard Cheney & Co. were not going to have their dirty war.

No ally nor adversary was going to attack the country with the largest military budget in the world.
 
This is simple. No one can stop a nuclear weapons state from invading a non-nuclear weapons state. Period.
 
This is not correct. The world supported the first Iraq war to repel them from Kuwait. The world did not uniformly support Dubya trying to get revenge for Daddy.
 
phoenix2020 said:
This is not correct. The world supported the first Iraq war to repel them from Kuwait. The world did not uniformly support Dubya trying to get revenge for Daddy.
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True. Remember "Freedom Fries" after France refused to get on board? And "he forgot about Poland".
 
Cameron said:
Is this a serious question?
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Yes, it's a serious question.

Haven't you been to other forums? Haven't you seen the number of posts saying that the Iraq invasion was illegal over and over again? So, if it was illegal, then why didn't the world do anything?
 
Tigerace117 said:
Of course, the war was blatantly one of aggression in which the U.S. happily committed numerous war crimes, but nobody was going to risk war to help Saddam, even if they could get their troops to Iraq in the first place
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Okay, but how come the world didn't put economic sanctions on the US, like what Russia is enduring?
 
GregorioMusallini said:
What if they invaded canada, would the world stop them then?
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No. The world would enact moderate embargos, make strong speeches and send money and weapons along with best wishes to Canada. However none would take any action within the borders of the aggressor. @GregorioMusallini would sit on his couch and not lift a finger to help Canada.
 

Go away
 

Full transparency, but I am questioning your intentions with the 2 threads I've seen you create so far. This thread comes off as revisionist.

The Iraq War being "wrong" by arguably the majority was determined well into the conflict, not necessarily in advance or at early stages. At the time of the engagement there were plenty of nations in support of, plenty who were critical of, and others who simply did not take a side. The UN itself did not authorize or condone any of this but did not quickly rush to criticize it either. May have been spoken about but it was much later when the UN turned negative on the engagement and the ICC started making noise as well. To that end the US was assisted by forces from UK, Australian, and Polish forces at the time of the initial phase of the engagement. The UK themselves at the time joined the US in why Bush 43 determined this was needed.

It was only later determined that the reasons for the engagement were not accurate, Iraq neither had or were in position to obtain what Bush 43 and Tony Blair claimed (arguably of course.)

Easy to argue that this all may have been unnecessary as a retrospective position on this, even though most agree the world is better off without Saddam Hussein and his loyalists around. And of course, this did kickstart another level of radicalization and terrorism we are still dealing with today. Too easy to also argue no western engagement into that area of the world was pulled off without consequence, but the alternative is what would we see today if we largely ignored Iraq. A roses and sunshine view that sanctions, or isolation, or the umpteenth UN resolution would have worked on Saddam & Iraq is just as naive as your OP suggesting "using force" against the US.

How we learn from these things is greater than relitigating the decision or asking why some other nation did not "fight off" the US. The issue is asking the right questions to get to a lesson, and I doubt your position on us will do much for that discussion.
 
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somebody is awake at least partially this morning. imagine that...


Phys251 said:
Ever heard of this thing called World War III? That's why.
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WW three is a consideration, but the Oligarchs planning the war had other things on their minds at the moment.

but they are planning WW three now, could happen this year my friends.....



watch the Labor Day week for a Fake Peace announcement possibly from China.

in the mean time keep digging yur bunkers, and prep them for something horrendous.


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Who, exactly would stop us?

We have the most powerful military on the planet. With a military budget exceeding that of many other nations combined.

Is there an actual point to this thread?
 
BirdinHand said:
Who, exactly would stop us?

We have the most powerful military on the planet. With a military budget exceeding that of many other nations combined.
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hardly. we are Very Vulnerable friends.

everything you see can be gone in less than 1 hour. do i need to give another Reality Check this morning ???


keep digging.

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