reply to post by wow23
Our government decisions reflect on our entire nation? I suppose you're right...I mean George Bush won the 2000 election by a landslide victory
and....wait...that can't be right....oh ya I remember now! He lost the popular vote! Haha, funny how our decisions were not reflected on the
government. With that being said, politicians nowadays make decisions based on party lines and personal gain more often than what the constituents and
citizens say, so you are quite mistaken my foreign friend.
As far as America (you realize you are politically incorrect, and America encompasses Mexico and Canada, as well as the United States) placing Saddam
Hussein in power, I was unaware of that fact and would like you to cite a source for that information, even though I would not be surprised if the CIA
did back the coup that placed in power (We did it in Iran and Afghanistan before, why not Iraq).
You say that other countries have sent military aid to Iraq to clean up the mess that the United States created?? Are you aware that the United States
is the only nation that has sent more than 10,000 troops to Iraq? The United States has more than 150,000 soldiers operating in Iraq right now. I have
no idea how you can say other countries sent military assistance to Iraq to "clean up America's mess" when many of those countries sending troops
are allied to the United States through NATO, and thus obligated to assist us seeing as to how we have given them aid in the past and continue to do
so.
Even if the United States is in Iraq for oil, we are at least trying to create a Democratic government that can stand on its own in the Middle East,
which could make it possible to create trade with a new Iraq, and yes, oil trade possibly. The way I see it, that's not such a bad thing since two
good things would come from executing a violent dictator who ranked among men like Stalin as far as atrocities go., those two things being, a
democratic nation in the Middle East and increased trade with Iraq.
You say Iraq was doing better before the war...........................duh? No offense, but that should not be surprising to anyone. Most countries
don't do so well in the decade following an invasion, especially one that completely revamps the government and economic systems within that country.
And as GradyPhilpott stated, Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq did not comply to U.N. sanctions since before the 1990s, so obviously, he didn't mean
well for the world if he wouldn't except fault for obvious atrocities and crimes against his own people that were recognized by the Security Council
of the United Nations.
