Is Iraq Americans' dishonor?
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no not anymore than some other things that have been done by us like the Indian wars
956339
NO\n\nhow do you think we got our freedom by standing back.\n\nin the public eyes iraq does not deserve freedom like ours.  we need keep fighting the terrorist for the people OF THE WORLD from the terrorist who rule it.  and we are not dictator we are freedom fighters who fight for FREEDOM,  JUSTICE AND LIBERTY.  unfortunitly people lost sight of it  and voted wrong yesterday.  \n\nand morally we are now also headed in the wrong direction.  people need to be responible for their action and not blame it on science or the society.\n\nfinally for the budget there goes the state and national level budget and economy and our taxes.  people what things to be in place for a better country and community.  but who do you think we pay for it in the long run.  we do with our taxes, not with the so called federal and state money people think we have.\n\n country is in a mess thanks to the ungrateful american public who forget how our free
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Amnesy International is a less biased source than President Bush, that is for certian. It is amazing that our control of this country has resulted in the deaths of thousands of civilians and we have a hard time understanding why people are so upset. We did finance Saddam, as we have done other dictators. It doesn't make it our fault that he did this to his people. I think it is just really interesting that our stated reason for going over there is that he attacked us. When that wasn't true we changed it to weapons of mass destruction. Well... that wasn't true either. Now it is presented as spreading democrarcy... hmmm... if our goal was to protect people from corrupt governments and spread democracy we would be in a lot of other countries...and we would be assisting countries that are starving. Kind of blows that out of the water doesn't it. I respect our troops deeply, that they would put their lives and destiny's on the line for us and I feel sad and distressed that we are not even being honest about why we are ending their lives as well as thousands of civilian lives that we don't talk about in the so called "liberal" media.
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Gosh, Ron, I used to live in California, and I had no idea there were no newspapers or news shows in Riverside. Otherwise, you might realize that Iraqi officials now state the 150,000 Iraqis have been murdered on our watch. How exactly did we help them? 1,000,000 Iraqi families have been forced to abandon their homes. How exactly did we help them? Sunni and Shiite deathsqauds room the streets, killing randomly, and we have proven ourselves powerless to even slow them down (our "crackdown" in Baghdad led to INCREASED violence and killing). And every poll of THE IRAQIS THEMSELVES show that vast majorities think the US is doing more harm than good in their country, and that America should fully withdraw from their country immediately.\n\nRon, you are clearly one of those nitwits who thought we be greeted as liberators. It's time to quit clinging to your delusions and accept reality.
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Thanks for your well informed and written question. The US should never have bolstered its way into Iraq in the first place. It was ill founded, against World opinion and the UN's wishes. Hans Blix was pleading with Bush for more time to complete his search for WMD's which have since never been found, this war was entirely unnecessary. I'm afraid it's typical of conservative political forces around the World. They railroad and treat their respective electorates with contempt and are divisive and uncaring. Bush is the worst of them all and should be impeached and tried as a war criminal. Our leaders here in Australia are almost as bad and are falling over themselves to get into bed with Bush and his one eyed crazy policies. Democracy in both our countries is the casualty and coming under increasing threat from are almost fascist leaders. I am sorry about the American soldiers and I am surprised that there isn't more of a back lash in the US over this unwarranted sacrifice of good people for nothing. Regards Jules.
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I suspected Greasy was trying to line up statements justifying the invasion of Iraq, but he claims he's not and added a negative for the chaotic democracy, that if you speak out you're more likely to be assassinated.  I'm still pointing out that the analogy to Iraq--intended or not--is not accurate.  The forces of democracy also face a military occupation that is widely detested, and infiltration by violent radical foreigners, and you're in danger of sliding into poverty because the economy is falling apart.\n\nIf I pretend this isn't a question about Iraq but a generic country, I'd take the chaotic democracy because most countries aren't as dysfunctional as Iraq is now, and in a fluid situation there is more hope for improvement than in a static situation such as a powerful dictator in total control.  Russia had chaotic democracy for a while and regressed to something like a Latin American pseudo-democracy, but I'd rather have lived through that than Stalin's or Brezhnev's regimes.\n\nI will still point out that the US has a shameful record of trading freedom for supposed security after 9/11.  The authors of the Bill of Rights would be disturbed to see a president repeal large chunks of it by fiat.  Anyone who voted for Bush in 2004 and now dares to lecture the Iraqis about how they should value freedom over security is profoundly hypocritical or uninformed.
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Yes, the things that Americans did at Abu Ghraib were against the law.  American soldiers who did them are now doing time in prison; this shows that we Americans do have a sense of justice, and we expect our soldiers to live up to it.\nThat being said, do you know what was happening at Abu Ghraib when Saddam Hussein ruled the roost?  Prisoners were not merely being embarrassed; they were being raped, set upon by attack dogs, having limbs hacked off, tortured with blowtorches and knives, etc.  But don't take my word for it.  Check the progress of Saddam Hussein's trial; several witnesses have already described the horrors that were perpetrated there prior to the US invasion.
370776
The world is full of a bunch of low lifes...and moral trash... the same people who ciriticize the americans are the same cowardly dogs that put their tails between their legs, and did not want to get involved in IRaq. After all, let Saddam slaughter innocent people and destroy nations, it is not their problem that people are being persecuted by terrorists..We would be out of Iraq by now if we had gotten the right kind of help from these pig nations who were more worried about getting oil from sadaam than the slaugher of innocent men, women and children and global terrorism. \n\nanti-americanism is not acceptable....except to other terrorists...like the cowardly dogs that have no morals, that sit around and trash other people...\n\nI have decided I am an anti-european....because there is no one out there in europe, that is worth my respect.
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no has and that is ok\n\nhow do you think we got our freedom by standing back.\n\nin the public eyes iraq does not deserve freedom like ours.  we need keep fighting the terrorist for the people OF THE WORLD from the terrorist who rule it.  and we are not dictator we are freedom fighters who fight for FREEDOM,  JUSTICE AND LIBERTY.  unfortunitly people lost sight of it  and voted wrong yesterday.  \n\nand morally we are now also headed in the wrong direction.  people need to be responible for their action and not blame it on science or the society.\n\n\n\n country is in a mess thanks to the ungrateful american public who forget how our free
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I don't. In fact, the overwhelming majority of Americans disapprove of President Bush. But many Americans believe that deposing Saddam Hussein will bring a new era of freedom and prosperity to Iraq and give the West a much-needed ally in that area. His supporters are more optimistic than most people about progress in Iraq and hopefully they'll turn out to be right.
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innocent people?  I think not!  but in any case you can find them on cnn.com and msnbc.com.  if you look under irak it will take longer but if you do the search under iraq it will be much faster.
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What a fricking 'tard.  Iraq is Iraq fault, America is just trying to help put it together so they know what freedom is all about.  Where does your monkey azz live?  If it is not the States then I bet that your country was helped by the U.S. at one point too.
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if you read some more news (not edited for content by liberals) you will see plenty of U.S. civilians and troops tortured, killed, their bodies drug through the streets by the good and noble people of Iraq. I was there I know what really went on, and the liberal newsreports don't want the public to know the truth.\n\njust check with al jazeera and see who has been kidnapped and is awaiting death. Also check and see how many were killed, their heads sawed off with a dull sword, for the glory of allah.\n\nsome soldiers have done unspeakable things and are being punished for it. but who is being held accountable for the kidnappings, torturing and killing of journalists and aid workers?????
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The problem with the intellectually dishonest is that they will seek every other explanation than the plain truth and fact.\n\nThe fact is like in America, where an occupation will not be tolerated, Iraqis and Arabs, with their complexities, will not tolerate an occupation by the USA. If American troops remain in Iraq for another 100 years the result will still be the same. The truth is often much simpler than fiction. PERIOD.
871996
That pretty much sums us up Ken. \n  \nWe are also traitors to this country for opposing the war - we really are though.
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I think liberals have a valid point when they say that we have alienated some countries over Iraq, but most of those countries weren't really lining up to help us anyway. The prevailing attitude that you see with many liberals is that America's foreign policies are to blame for 9/11 and other terror attacks, and this is simply not true. The terrorists who attacked America on 9/11 were the same terrorist who attacked America several times during the Clinton administration, when Clinton went out of his way to be "the good guy" towards the islamic world. Foreign policy is not to blame. The terrorists simply hate the Israelis, and therefore, we are guilty by association.
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Yes, when the US Military get out and leave them whats left of their country to run by their own government, and elected officials, and manage their own oil; but wait, our defense contracts, no the US Corporations and Bush cronies are making too much money off the Iraqi people, to allow them to be at peace. One Tyrant out and a bunch of "good ole boys" in, our military and the innocent people, dispensable pawns.