Blame... For... The surge Obama said wouldn't work that did work? Cutting the level of violence to something similar to what goes on in California? The policy to put sanctions on Iraq for a decade that was in place for a decade before W was elected? The Iraq Liberation Act that called for regime change, signed by Clinton? What are you blaming Bush for exactly? I figure Saddam had to go and it is a shame it had to be W that did it.
Going there in the first place and trying to pin it on 9/11, WMD and that Saddam was a "evil man". We had no business going there, especially when you take into account the countless other nations we don't go in under similar circumstances. So yeah, everything that happened is a direct result of his choice to invade.
We were already there. The Iraqis were shooting at our airplanes regularly. Clinton bombed them in 1998. Saddam used WMDs against the Kurds. How could he if he never had them? The choice is a miserable one, but if you had to choose between 500,000 children killed or 105,000 killed in a civil war, pick one.
Re: The USA is Bombing Iraq Again. Happy to see that Congress is involved. Not so happy with the direction it went. As others have pointed out, this is a no-win situation for the US. No matter who we help, they will still hate us. If we are going to help, I want the helpees to pick up the tab. We need to pump oil until we are reimbursed for the cost of our participation. I'm tired to paying to protect people that hate us. If they don't want to pay for our support, then let them work out their own problems. Go Blazers
That's no excuse. If Johnny has 10 tons of mustard gas, and uses it all on the Kurds, how many tons of mustard gas does Johnny have left? I think your numbers are cherry-picked, estimates are all over the place for both. But in any case, your argument amounts to "Well, if Iraqi's are going to get killed, we should be the ones killing them." barfo
Re: The USA is Bombing Iraq Again. We're never going to get paid directly. Just like nobody paid us for WW2 in Europe. Our best hope is a stable trading partner in the region.
The barfo plan: [video=youtube;VL5iTpn6Gp4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL5iTpn6Gp4[/video] sorry barfo, but they can't eat cake because they're dead.
Erm, sorry, but im not sure how you've come to that conclusion... I for one am against the mass-killing of civilians and hate what has been happening in the Mid-East, but war doesn't solve everything.
I chose us helping ourselves first. Because why do we not then invade Korea? Or North Vietnam (again)? Or Somalia? Or Darfur/Sudan? Why did we pick Iraq?
Because we helped Saddam gain and stay in power. We didn't do anything like that in those other places. If the UN or NATO voted to go into those places, we'd be obligated by treaty. Maybe UN and/or NATO should have gotten involved. I wonder how hoojacks would sweet talk a vicious mass murderer into stopping or changing his ways.
