I mean when war , any war , is waged against the despoty and release poor people from slavery , the others - the public -from the world must be proud of this, not going into streets blaming the wagers. here i speak about the results which get the people of Iraq out of the hand of Saddam and irrespective of any covert aims behind the war.
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This question is a JOKE, right??!!\n\nWhy do you applaud Bush for freeing Iraqis from dictatorship?? Don't you know that they have been dying in their hundreds ever since Bush's war began?? Yes, it's true that many of the more recent deaths have been caused by the civil unrest CAUSED by Bush's war - rather than being directly attributable to Bush's troops - but even YOU surely can't pretend that Hussein would have slaughtered this many people in such a short time span?? No-one knows exactly how many Iraqis have died, and it's more than likely no-one ever WILL! But Bush's panic-stricken, trigger-happy, hyped-up troops are responsible for annihilating thousands of innocent civilians!! Why? Because they can't tell the difference between a civilian beating a carpet, & a man with a rifle!! And the troops wouldn't even let the red cross get near the injured a lot of the time...!!\n\nAs for Blair, we blame him because he was stupid enough to BELIEVE Bush's lies and obedient enough to send British troops to fight a war with no just cause - and THEN he was too stupid to withdraw when it was obvious that Bush had made it all up!!!
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It's not. It's saving the Iraqi's freedoms. Are you so selfish to think that we are the only country worthy of freedom?\n\nI've been there. I saw women beaten and raped on the streets by Saddam's Death Squads, people disappearing and kidnapped everywhere, women denied very basic rights and privileges like education or respect, the people's money stolen to build palaces with actual rivers rerouted to flow through them, zero social programs but an immense military, etc. \n\nThis country once fought tooth and nail for it's own freedoms many times over but the further we get from those brave generations the more the current generation will be ungrateful for all they did.
629582
Absolutely. Each region/country thinks that the other one's beliefs, morals, ethics, etc are completely wrong while insisting that they are right. Just about every war throughout history had some kind of "name calling," if you will, as a root to the violence.
277265
Iraq is and will be in civil war weather we leave there now or in a hundred years so it does not matter when we leave. The strongest will take the power and will run the country as they see fit and that is just the way it is. I was against the war to begin with, we have no business telling another country how to run their business, no matter how bad a leader that they have. I agree that Saddam is and was a bad man but that is Iraq, and we are the United States and we have plenty of problems with a bad leader right here.
645074
Osama Bin Laden had nothing to do with the war in Iraq. Also in a way we have won the war. We have taken over the country and we are fairly secure in our power there. Also we have created a new Iraqi goverment so that in itself is a win. But I think what you mean is when do we leave. The answer to that is when it is safe enough for the Iraqi people to live.
252473
It is part of a system of maintaining power and the status quo. In the Deep South in the USA the press and the media represented the Negro as happy and much better off than if they were free. This helped to manitain the economic benefits of the slave in pre-Civil War South. The same was also said in South Africa.Even in Russis under Stalin, propoganda films depicted the peoples of the Soviet Union as gloriously content. We know he was actually on a murderous mission. This image also serves to quell criticism from other countries. In Iraq the Fox Network and CNN both convey the idea that the people of Iraq are happy with the occupation. Imperialist ideology again.
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its part of the propaganda of diabolization. They need those people to be the "bad" ones so that they can justify commiting atrocities against them. Its a vicious circle that only ends when we end global poverty. Guess what we could have done for the same price as the Iraq war?
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Not a good syllogism.  Yes the US IS guilty of warcrimes. Yes the war was totally under false pretenses and yes the Iraqis are not better off today.  HOWEVER, in my wildest dreams I can not vusualize how Humpty Dumpty could be put back together. \n\nwe are kind of stuck with this Kubuki Theater and for good or ill, ( I think ill ) , its slowly, inexorably moving forward.\n\nHowerver the US has no legitimacy in this dog and kangroo court show.
90822
The war was based on a lie.  So we got rid of Saddam.  Does this mean we have to overthrow every other dictator who abuses his own people too?  I think not.  There are some angry, angry people here who, like their Republican leaders, hate to hear the truth.  Listen to the bonehead who thinks all liberals should be shot and be afraid.  This is the kind of person who avidly supports the brain-dead George Bush and all he stands for.  Given the chance, these nuts will destroy our country.  God help us.
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You are right about most of the world (or at least normal people in it) realizing that wars don't solve problems in the world. But I don't think the assholes in the White House are able to think about diplomacy or beyond the concept of "using the American power" for the benefit of "the American people".
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This is not an apples and apples discussion.\n\n1.  Posterity always allows us to view history through rose colored glasses.  War is great in the past, horrible in the present is how we ususally think.\n\n2.  The Civil War was not about slavery.  It was about keeping the Union together.  We did not start the war to end slavery, rather the Emancipation Proclamation was a means to end the war more quickly.  It was a fine byproduct of the war, but not the justification for war at all (on either side)\n\n3.  Invading another independent country is trickier business.  In general, countries have the right to run their country how they see fit.  Iraq is not unique in its genocide or human rights problems.\n\nGiven your mentality, there would be many, many "just" wars ahead of us.
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Your assumption that war derives from misunderstandings is intellectually false and has no basis in reality.\n\nWar is nearly always caused by greed and pride.
311580
No one wins a war- its a misconception
204375
i realize alot of people that are reading this are sheep who follow what the media and what all the "in crowd" says and thinks its the "cool" thing to do to protest the war because alot of "cool" celebrities are doing it...so i am ready to hear anything negative you have to say... BUT i think the question should be " do you want to allow insurgents and small groups of malitia to take over the country of Iraq and cause an even worse terrorist state than there has ever been as a result of a civil war, thus causing an uprise in terrorist activity from the ones that hate the USA and ANY government that does'nt operate the way thiers does."  the moral of the story, we are too late in the battle to quit. dont believe everything the media feeds you.
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You are so brainwashed it's not even funny.  The civilians being killed in Iraq are either being killed by their own people, or they are providing help to the terrorists and put themselves in harms way.  Before you go spouting off about things you know nothing about, try heading over to Iraq for a year.  You might come back with a different view on everything.
224800
I agree. War never solved anything. I just can't understand those people who support the war, send their kids, and then blame it on Iraqis and Arabs if anything bad happened to them. Don't send them! Send Bush! If he wants the Oil so bad!
256573
This whole war is but one gigantic global farce. Bush's approval rating is so low that he should have been impeached months ago and the war stopped immediately taking into consideration the thousands of lives it has already claimed. The problem is all the money that has been put into this madness and the  lobbies that are behind the scenes. So it is, once again ladies and gentlemen, for money that so many more lives shall be sacrificed and twice as many lies be told.