Perhaps the next time someone in Washington decides they just must have regime change somewhere else, they can drop the pretenses and put their own tail on the line for a direct assassination of said foreign leader.

I think we all know and understand the only reason a person like Bin Laden can be assassinated but Saddam and Gadaffi can't be is the fear by world leaders that to do that will get it done back in return.

Well, it's better to see the world leaders go at each other on a most personal level and kill hundreds than national wars when the death of ONE MAN is the only real point in the first place. Enough death on wholesale levels to kill just one or a handful of individual people.

Great thread...even if reading the numbers makes me feel a bit ill, particularly given how it's all ended. Lets see how long it takes for civil war to fire back up in Iraq when the withdrawal is as complete as it's going to get this time.

Oh, and I sure feel for the Embassy staff. That's a mighty large city, regardless of how many people they have within the mini-city compound.

Yeah but now they have democracy, and although ive not actually had a chance to ask many Iraq's about how they feel about this, im pretty sure there pleased as punch!

Ahh the sweet smell of democracy .... or is that the smell of death? Meh same difference. I wonder if they have us on their christmas card list? Prolly not after uncle george and second cousin obama mad asses of themselves at last years xmas party. Iran get ready, sweet american democracy is comin your way.

This is why those who think that God is on the side of America are highly disillusioned. God lets an arrogant country, person free reign over their power because it is merely a test. It is things like this that do not surprise me that pretty soon God will destroy all of the USA. After all the weak and poor are destined to inherit the earth, not the powerful and arrogant and murdering.

Murder has bipartisan support. Its the only thing they all agree on.

Quite sickening if you ask me.
And the UN is corrupt as hell too, they're paid off by the big guys too. Im not talking the USA, im talking the people who want the resources there.

Everyone has a price apparently,
It is genocide, but how much real news do we hear out of there? Most of it goes -unreported-. You think the UN guys fly into an active warzone to see if they're killing innocent people?

No.
And even if they did see all those innocent people dead, they'de just blame the bad guys anyways. Call it 'collateral damage' or something and call it a day. Its a war crime, except when the world police do it. Then its 'bringing democracy' and 'ending terrorism'

What they dont tell you is. 'it is for oil'. The most oil rich land is in the middle east. Like the caspian sea area (was watching a guy talking about it the other day). The entire area is rich. Libya is a prime example as well. We're still there because we need to keep the pipeline opened. To let the oil flow to the west.

Not to mention the expenditures on weaponry and equipment(at taxpayer cost and corporate benefit) the man hours/power and training (xe, blackwater, whatever), giant billion dollar rebuilding contracts after expending trillions (of your money) to the benefit of corporations (like halliburton).

Its easy to think 'its not happening here'. But there are people just like you and me there. Trying to live. And we are the cause of great suffering worldwide. Here at home too. Many soldiers lives losts, families broken.

It would have been just as easy to send in a small group of well trained soldiers, take out the dictator and then do whatever. Not pummel several countries into submission for 10 years.

Controversial view maybe? Am i alone in this train of thought? It makes me angry really..