Baghdad Bombings Kill 35 Children

I think we all agree Saddam was a bad guy. But using that as a reason or a justification for invasion after our first reasons fall flat (weapons of mass destruction) is wrong.

At the time when Saddam was killing all these hundreds of thousands of people, we were on good terms with him so we were shaking his hand (see Rumsfield photo) in friendship.

We're there for strategic reasons: economic (oil) and to act as a buffer zone in the middle east. You can help protect Israel, you can keep an eye on those muslims and your assets (oil), you can slowly create a market there for more of your goods and services, and so on. You can't tell us that tons of companies don't stand to earn a lot of money being there...that's why there have been issues over contracts. Every company wants there paws on those big contracts. Nobody is there for the goodness of their hearts wanting to help those poor little Iraqi children. That's a kindergardnesque way of looking at things.

Countries behave similar to individuals. We often greedy, egotistical, acting in our own benefit without regard for others. That's what happening there right now. Big country strongarms little weak pathetic backward country because it can, the same way the bully steals the milk money from the geek instead of his buddy who has money but who's the same size as him.

Originally posted by Dirty Dane
Yes - and its been worser in Iraq before

Under Saddam's regime many hundreds of thousands of people have died as a result of his actions - the vast majority of them Muslims.

Documented chemical attacks by the regime, from 1983 to 1988, resulted in some 30,000 Iraqi and Iranian deaths.

Human Rights Watch estimates that Saddam's 1987-1988 campaign of terror against the Kurds killed at least 50,000 and possibly as many as 100,000 Kurds. The largest was the attack on Halabja which resulted in approximately 5,000 deaths. over 2,000 Kurdish villages were destroyed during the campaign of terror.

From 1998-2003 400,000 Iraqi children under the age of five died of malnutrition and disease, preventively, but died because of the nature of the regime under which they are living.

Originally posted by Mike33
I think we all agree Saddam was a bad guy. But using that as a reason or a justification for invasion after our first reasons fall flat (weapons of mass destruction) is wrong.

At the time when Saddam was killing all these hundreds of thousands of people, we were on good terms with him so we were shaking his hand (see Rumsfield photo) in friendship.

We're there for strategic reasons: economic (oil) and to act as a buffer zone in the middle east. You can help protect Israel, you can keep an eye on those muslims and your assets (oil), you can slowly create a market there for more of your goods and services, and so on. You can't tell us that tons of companies don't stand to earn a lot of money being there...that's why there have been issues over contracts. Every company wants there paws on those big contracts. Nobody is there for the goodness of their hearts wanting to help those poor little Iraqi children. That's a kindergardnesque way of looking at things.

Countries behave similar to individuals. We often greedy, egotistical, acting in our own benefit without regard for others. That's what happening there right now. Big country strongarms little weak pathetic backward country because it can, the same way the bully steals the milk money from the geek instead of his buddy who has money but who's the same size as him.

Originally posted by EviLSuperstaR
The US (Rumsfeld and Reagan) supported the gassings, they even sold the chemicals to Saddam for that, and the US was the main pusher behind the UN sanctions that killed 400,000 Iraqi children. Get a brain, man.
No wonder the Iraqi people don't like the US...

Originally posted by EviLSuperstaR
The fucking US using cluster bombs in urban areas is fucking random killing you fucking hypocrite... Go wine somewhere else.

Originally posted by JaveWolf

Iraq is something I really don't get, you see when Laura Bush says it's a better world without Saddam, then Why didn't the US sent special forces and kidnapped Saddam somehow?
Noooo the US has to invade the whole fucking country.
Simply because of the oil.