Iraq Leader Thanks United States, page 3

Originally posted by AntiPolitrix

Originally posted by lmgnyc
And while we are talking about dictators, let's just look at who Bush invites out to the ole' ranch in Crawford and to the White House, shall we?

The President of China, Jiang Zemin has been invited down to Crawford for BBQ with GWB...

Did the UN pass a resolution on China or Saudia for their Human Rights Violations? I know they did in Iraq but what about these others?

Saudi Arabia has never faced U.N. sanctions regarding human rights.

China was not sanctioned. The U.S. sponsored a weak motion to impose sanctions in April 2004, but China avoided the charges by using a "no action motion" on itself, which is essentially a procedural mechanism that allows members to take violations against themselves off the table. The U.S. knew that this would happen and the proposal was really just a token to appease the rising concern at home.
hrw.org...

The point is that Bush's current reason for removing Saddam doesn't hold water. If he is so appalled at what Saddam did to the Iraqis, how could he stand to look Jiang Zemin in the face (much less dine on catfish with him) knowing that the man is as brutal a dictator as Saddam? And a communist dictator with nuclear weapons--in the summer White House!!

What I'm saying is that Bush doesn't really care one way or another about the Iraqi people--just as he doesn't really care about the Chinese who are being murdered on a daily basis. All of this talk of bringing freedom to the Iraqi people and saving them from torture is all rhetoric. If it really was a government priority, something real would be done about it. This is all about making money for U.S. military contractors and securing oil. Period. Perhaps there is some payback thrown in for trying to blow up Bush Sr., but Iraq has nothing to do with what happened on 9/11 and nothing to do with terrorism.

The Bushies have been looking for reasons to take Saddam out and 9/11 conveniently happened and they seized the opportunity. When attempts to link Saddam to the event wore suspiciously thin, Bush started in with the human rights violations, but is this really a cause to go to war? If so, what about all of the other persecution that is happening in the world?

Americans need to wake up and cut through all the BS that has been shoveled on us and see the war in Iraq for what it is.

Saddam=not responsible for 9/11
Brutal dictator, yes. Terrorist attempting to blow up U.S. cities, no.
Where are the terrorists responsible for 9/11? Alive and well and still plotting to blow up/contaminate/otherwise destroy U.S. cities.

Why are these terrorists still alive and well and still plotting to blow up U.S. cities? Because Bush & Co. failed in their "War on Terror" by not actually reducing global terrorism.