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Originally posted by Otts
*crickets*
Just the fact that nobody replied to this post - even if it were to question it, question the sources or discuss it - tells me what I need to know about what value we give to Iraqi lives.
Sad, really.
Originally posted by marg6043
I agree with you is ok to talk about giving democracy to Iraq but talking about at what cost is tabu, bushes democracy kills inocent civilians.
Taliban and bin-laden were not in Iraq after 9/11 they were in Afghansitan.
Originally posted by Muaddib
Let me ask you this... Would you prefer if there were UN sanctions again in Iraq, like what Clinton proposed and the UN agreed to? the same one that killed at least 500,000 children in Iraq?....
TextSource: Washington Post, 2003-11-16
President Bush, introducing a new linkage between guerrillas in Iraq and global terrorism, said in an interview to be broadcast today that attacks on U.S. forces are partly the work of "mujaheddin types" and fighters seeking "revenge for getting whipped in Afghanistan
TextAl Qaeda at Work in Iraq, Bush Tells BBC
President Suggests Connection Between Terrorist Group and Hussein Government
President Bush said in an interview that attacks on U.S. forces are partly the work of "mujaheddin types" and fighters seeking "revenge for getting whipped in Afghanistan."
That might be believable if, in fact, the battles of Afghanistan whipped anybody. In fact, the US left Afghanistan to fight in Iraq, leaving Al Qaeda time and resources to regroup.
TextBush said the deadly attacks on occupation forces were "nothing more than a power grab," primarily by devotees of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
Of course, what he doesn't say is the US attack on Iraq was nothing more than a power grab, and those that were attacked are attacking back.
Originally posted by Muaddib
Let me ask you this... Would you prefer if there were UN sanctions again in Iraq, like what Clinton proposed and the UN agreed to? the same one that killed at least 500,000 children in Iraq?....
Originally posted by Otts
*crickets*
Just the fact that nobody replied to this post - even if it were to question it, question the sources or discuss it - tells me what I need to know about what value we give to Iraqi lives.
Sad, really.
Casualties of war happen, it is a sad fact, but a fact nontheless
Originally posted by sensfan
Casualties of war happen, it is a sad fact, but a fact nontheless
You are right Muaddib that casualties of war happen. But it might be a little easier to understand if the war was just and not illegal. These are all unecessary deaths, just as all of the deaths of the soldiers are.
Very sad