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RichLP -> RE: War in Iraq (9/3/2008 10:09:42 AM)
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ORIGINAL: letusreason
I was discouraged to see only 34% get this
I believe that if Al Gore would have won in 2000 Iraq would be a super fortress for terrorists and we would have seen many more attacks here at home and suicide bombers would still be going on in Israel. Or a worse case scenario, Israel would have declared war on Iraq (or vice versa) creating an inferno of mass war in the middle east.
If you remember back in 2003 after we invaded, the media , and liberals, and liberal media, was repeating over and over again that we would see an increase in terror activity here at home because the terrorists would be mad at us.[:@] Well just the opposite has occurred and we have experienced safety under President Bush's watch.
I AM SO THANKFUL THEY WERE WRONG AND BUSH DID THE RIGHT THING!!
What YOU believe about what Al Gore would or would not have done is irrelevant because Al Gore was not the president on the morning of September 11, 2001 or on the evening of March 19, 2003.
You are apparently one of the many people in our country who swallowed the claims made by the Bush administration during the run-up to war between the summer of 2002 and early 2003.
Bush has already openly stated that Saddam Hussein had NOTHING to do with 9/11, and the same verdict has been issued by investigations conducted by the United States – Saddam Hussein’s government and Al-Qaeda never had a collaborative partnership.
Iraq a super fortress for terrorists? This is a claim absolutely out of touch with historical facts, since Saddam Hussein’s government was secular; the Baath were notorious for persecuting Islamic radicals. Osama Bin Laden publicly disdained and hated Hussein and considered him to be an infidel. In fact, Bin Laden condemned the 1990 invasion of Kuwait and at the time, he even called for a holy Muslim army to liberate Kuwait from the Iraqi armed forces.
Suicide bombers in Israel do not attack because of Iraq. They attack because of what they consider to be extremely unjust policies by the State of Israel. Whether or not they truly are unjust, suicide bombings are not justifiable. But even if they were, they are not related to Iraq.
You’re lumping everything together and thusly you are guilty of an extremely simplistic way of looking at things.
Furthermore, Iraq would have never attacked Israel, since Israel has a nuclear arsenal and would not have hesitated to use it (and since Iraq had not attacked Israel other than the Scuds launched in 1991). And if Iraq had attacked Israel, Israel would have retaliated mercilessly (and the United States would have assisted Israel). Therefore, you are wrong on this as well.
As for safety here at home – no one wants attacks to happen, but blowback can take other forms. And as for the right thing: since you go by the moniker “letusreason,” reason the following consequences of Bush’s war of aggression against Iraq, a country who never attacked the United States of America:
- 4 million refugees, roughly evenly split between internal and external refugees (out of a population of 25 million Iraqis)
- as of 2006, as per the Lancet report from Britain, 600,000 dead Iraqis
- more than 4 thousand dead US servicepersons
- dozens of thousands of wounded and injured US servicepersons
- Iraqis still lack potable water and electricity 24/7
- Increased Iranian influence in Iraq
- Horrible levels of human suffering
- Women now subject to Sharia law – in the time of Saddam Hussein, women were permitted to attend schools and universities, to hold jobs, and to wear western-style clothing
- Kidnapping, rapes much higher
- an exodus of professionals (doctors, lawyers, engineers) to neighboring Arab states, creating a brain drain that may haunt Iraq’s recovery for many years
- the rise of Islamic extremism in formerly secular Iraq
- A bitter and bloody sectarian civil war which has affected millions of Iraqis and which will take perhaps a generation to heal
- Thousands of widowed women who now have no breadwinner in their homes
And this is “the right thing” that Bush did?
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