Had Bush stated that was his objective instead of making up reasons to attack Iraq I would be less of a Bush basher.
I doubt it. You have proven to be extremely partisan enough times. Also, with this statement you are falling in line with those who choose to focus on the absence of nuclear bombs in Iraq and dismissing over twenty million Muslims that were freed from tyranny.
The reality is that Bush and his evil tribe purposely distorted and manipulated the truth in order to start a war....unprecedented in modern US history and since the real truth has been exposed all the more infuriating.
Meh. He made the freshman mistake of not believing in Americans. Obviously he believed that to help someone else and to gamble on the notion that the bigger threat the ME holds for us was too great to explain to Americans. He felt he needed an "immediate" threat to act.
Appears that he was right. All his critics and the Global Left care about was the absence of nuclear bombs in Iraq. Twenty million Iraqis just doesn't matter.
Not to mention the incredibly inept execution of the entire Iraq project. Could it have been done worse if you tried? How pathetic is it when you're so full of yourself that you actually try to change the way a culture has behaved for thousands of years? Believing that we would be greeted as liberators...believing that, as Rumsfeld said that "we go to war with the Army we have not want we want," believing that Iraqi oil would pay for entire escapade etc. etc. is why I think you're incorrect.
No, this is what you do to exhonerate yourself from acknowledging the noble effort. "If" we had declared our intentions..."If" we had done it right...."If," is a word of deceit.
We can talk all day about the mistakes of the war in Iraq. I can do it better than anyone and with much more accuracy beyond the politcal BS. But none of it changes that America toppled a brutal tyrant. Here lies the morality or the absence of it.
No doubt that Saddam was about as evil as it gets...no American I can think of has ever been close to his horrific crimes. However, again, we are not the world's policemen and that is not why we went to Iraq.
We were told that Iraq was an IMMINENT threat to America which was what was justifying our invasion...and we were manipulated into a war that we do not need to be fighting.
Wrong again. This is "one" of the reasons you were told about why we were heading for Iraq. This does not mean this is why. If you were so susceptable and ignorant of your global happenings, then shame on you. If WMD is your only incentive to help a non-American, than shame on you.
"However," is what I was talking about in my earlier post. There is no "however." There is right and wrong. There is good and evil. "However," should never get in the way of doing what is right.
Iraq had nothing to do with being a world's policeman. This tactic of exhoneration is perhaps the most obtuse of tactics. We cannot be the world policemen. We couldn't be such a thing if we tried. However, we are the global referree
Hell....what about all the other places in the Middle East, Africa, South America and the Asia that have equally or almost equally brutal leaders? Our interests can be preserved and protected in many ways...but going to war in Iraq was not one of them and you cannot convince me that we are safer today than when Saddam was ruling Iraq....and that is the bottom line...
I love it when the Global Left reveal themselves. Our liberation of Iraqis have brought out the worst in the Global Left. If you can't help everyone, why help anyone? The thruth is that it doesn't matter what America does. If we chose to invade into Sudan, we would hear the same outcry. But let's consider what so many have trouble with....Why Saddam?
Because Iraq was do-able while North Korea is not. Because we bore a special responsibility, due to our bygone support for the Baghdad regime. Because Saddam had launched wars of aggression unmatched by other contemporary dictators. Because he
did seek weapons of mass destruction. Because the situation in Iraq continued to worsen. Because the threat to global civilization is the Radical Islam that is festering and exponentially creating religious terrorists in the Middle East. And because you have to start somewhere.
No coward has ever been short of good reasons for doing nothing. To claim that you aren't safer 5 years after 9/11 is sophomoric. America will be safer after generations in the Middle East benifit from the activity in Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria, "Palestine," Turkey, and Afghanistan. If you are ignorant of what is going on in these places, do some reading and discover what is being thrust onto the surface since our invasion into the Saddam regime. This effort is not just about Iraq. This is about a failing civilization. And that is the threat and the "bottom line."
It's a simple question....."Is it moral to topple a brutal dictator or is it moral to produce reasons to turn one's back?"
