if the usa didnt support sadam at the first place how would my country iraq would be?
357188
Politics is a question of time and timing.\n\nIran was considered a bigger threat at the time than Iraq.  I agree that the American military must have known about the atrocities within Iraq at the time but they were far more concerned with supporting Iraq against Iran so that a fundamentalist super-state didn't arise in the region.\n\nI think if Saddam hadn't got ambitions outwith Iraq (in order to get out of economic chaos) then the situation would not have escalated as it did.\n\nI really feel for the general people of Iraq as they have jumped from the horror of Saddam to the chaos of post war ... regardless of the reason for it.\n\nPeace out
1089535
Well Sadam did have WMDs and we all (Clinton even) knew it. But our real reason for being in Iraq is to strategically get the jump on Iran. Afghanistan is on one side of Iran and Iraq is on the other. Iran is backed by China. You can see the cards stacking up here on the way to WWIII.
996290
Sectarian violence forments into civil war... While some may think this acceptable, remember this would be a war between racial/religious groups which cross beyond the borders of Iraq. Iran will more forcefully help shias; Majority Sunnis outside Iraq will support minority sunnis. \n\nRuling Bath Party in Syria will support former bath regieme elements - recall the purpose of the Bath party is pan-arab nationalism, meaning to establish one massive Muslim county covering all the mid-east thru north africa to southern spain and back the other way across turkey into the balkans, on across thru afghanistan to former soviet stans - that also by the way being the goal of al quaida. \n\nThen there's the Kurds, they want a home country of their own on tradtional land they live on right now, problem being that's part of Northern Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria, & Jordan. If Iraq is to be divided, even if the Kurdish state is oonly in Iraq, all kurds in those other countries will be ready to rise up, and those countries will attack to supress them first. \n\nIn short, massive regional civil war requiring the involvement the entire world just to stand between the parties (that being what we do today in Iraq with 130k). It results in World War 3 in the short-term. In the longer-term you've proven AGAIN to the muslim world how weak & scared we are. The only reason they are still fighting is because they believe we'll run away if they can hold out long enough. They believe that cause we did it in Vietnam & in Somolia, and now the democratic element is calling for the same in Iraq. The only reason they were brave enough to attack us on 9/11 (same with Japaneese at Pearl Harbor) is because they think they can live thru teh initial anger & that we're really to cowardly & lacking in fortitude or committment enough to stand against them. It's a battle of wills for the sould of the world. You can suffer in the name of good or surrender to evil.
610486
Israel would do this before the US. The US might encourage Israel to do it, but wouldn't actually pull the trigger.\n\n--------------\nTo your added comments:\n\nIsrael because they have been directly threatened by Iran. This would make it appear "justified". The US has no reason to attack Iran.\n\nI sort of agree with you on Iraq. The US definitely wants a military presence in that region. However, I think we'd prefer a friendly government in Iraq, with the only criteria for "friendly" being selling us cheap oil. Saddam met this criteria from the 1960's through the 1980's. That why we helped him gain power, and that's why we supported him throughout that period.
933219
I bet he would be elected! The Iraqi's were far better off under him than they are under us and most can't stand us! The prime minister is telling US troops to withdraw because of there negative effect on Iraqi's, mean while the rest hide in the Green Zone! The prime minister is no fan of the US! One question he asked the military was why they think they have any arrest powers in Iraq since he is the head of the government, not the US!\n\nAnd he isn't really very happy about all the torture that is going on and the murders!
928147
No.  The entire process was doomed from the beginning.  Besides the fact that the operation was poorly planned and executed, the people of Iraq have too many long standing ethnic/religious differences.  Just like eastern Europe under the Communist regimes, these differences were quelled by the strong-armed rule of Sadaam.  We are dreaming if we think that we will force middle eastern people to become like us.  They will not accept our religion or our western values.   They will have to work it out themselves with our support, not our intervention.
962074
If it was me, i would make him suffer and die slowly!..i would do the same to Benladan!...I can assure u, Sadam ordered more than a millons ppl of iran n iraq to be killed...so ya, I would make him suffer and die,,,,
903839
1) Have the US pull out of Iraq.\n2) Have Int'l. peacekeepers continue to keep Israel out of Lebanon.\n3) Have Iraqi Shiites take full control of Iraq & kill all Sunni insurgents/terrorists (Hezbollah are also Shiites who hate Sunnis)\n4) Have a US brokered Israeli-Palestinian peace plan that would give the Palestinians a nation of their own in the West Bank/Gaza
383488
Not much.\n\nIt's a country that is quite religious.  It was in a war against Iraq in which the US propped up the Iraqi side so now has some legitimate gripes against the US.\n\nThe people are no doubt like people all over the world.  Some good some bad but generally want the same opportunities as anyone else and just want to live in peace and harmony.
769129
Are you asking a question or are you preaching?  The discourse above sounds more like a sermon than a question.\n\nAt one point the US did support Iraq, and Saddam (when they were fighting Iran).  However they were never allies of ours.  The relation ship we had with them was more an "enemy of my enemy" thing.\n\nI doubt seriously that Israel ever trained the Taliban, much less in Pakistan.\n\nI am skeptical about the US "giving $6 billion to Al Qaeda,"  unless you are referring to indirectly through the purchase of oil.\n\nAs for the rest, it seems that it is the sermon part.
36749
By not turning it into a religous war, Iraqis will thank you for overthrowing Saddam and they will pay your expenses with Oil but maybe their definition of freedom and democracy is a little different from American one.\nUS has won that war, its better not to start a new one.
932709
I think what would happen is the same thing that is happening today, only on a grander scale; innocents would be slaughtered by the thousands. Saddam was removed, in part, because he was killing his own people. Terrorists would gain control of the country and spread to other countries, as it is threatening to do now, with Syria and Iran. Then again, I could be wrong!!!! Good Luck!!!!
867203
I have seen sights reporting as high as half a million civilians.  There is so much chaos there that no one can accurately give a figure.  Based on the answers here it seems Iraqi life holds no value and analogy is used that if Sadam was killing why not us! But everyone has forgotten that Bush attacked Iraq to make life better for the Iraqis and get rid of Sadam and he is still alive while so many are dead and dying!
217824
Sorry, no newspapers or statistics.\n\nThe US destroyed Iraq, made the situation so bad that a civil war is gonna happen, in which some neighbour countries will certainly interfere.\n\nSo -even if I was against the war- YES, I think the US or even better a bigger coalition (UN, including Germany, France and Russia- by the way they're already doing it) should stay for a long time, and reconstruct the country. Anything else would be "we came, we bombed, we staid long enough to make a mess, an then left because we didn't plan anything and the situation was too complicated for us".
310943
Yes, and Us supported Pinochet in Chile, Batista in Cuba and many more bloody dictators, as show the link below.  Do you know that US give Israelis arms to kill palestinans? USA are not so friendly.
585574
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.
1003814
america doesn't give a shit about other people, they've supported probably half the dictators around the world at one time or another, we supplied both iraq and afghanistan with weapons when it was in our best interest. The wmd thing is bullshit, do you really think the united states would attack country that actually had nukes? of course not that's we invaded iraq and not north korea