The whole idea that we can stop terrorists from blowing people up with carbombs, by carpetbombing the area killing the very same civilians, is pretty illogical
There are very bad things going on in this country which should be tackled first. Some people believe that we should spend all our money on war and bringing peace to other countries, which BTW never really works... it usually ends up killing far more civilians than would have died under the normal reign of power, and much more terror is in everyone's lives. Not to mention we lose our own soldiers... then a new dictator comes about and it begins again. Its a great profit for the companies of course who are involved in rebuilding, the blowing up, then rebuilding, then blowing up etc. Nice steady income! Not much checks and balances or audits in a war zone either, so very handy for the criminal minded businessman.
Some people think we should spend more on education instead of war, and building healthy relationships through trade agreements etc. Its basically a mentality of "we should save everyone else on earth, forget about our kids and people locally, they are not under threat of a grenade, so screw them and let them be homeless, its not as much to worry about" versus "we are in America, and we should be better than these other countries, lets focus on education and protecting our own country.". Everyone knows that terrorism has gotten worse, and we are no safer today than before the IRAQ war, in fact we have even more enemies and larger breeding grounds for terrorists now! Each group of civilians killed is yet another family of potential terrorists seeking revenge.. This is all obvious I would suspect, but some still think "thousands of soldiers lives,and hundreds of thousands of civilians lives are worth taking out a single evil dictator". In fact they could have taken Saddam out without this war as well.. so what was it really about? regime change... of course. Who runs IRAQ now?
Saddam hated terrorists and fought alqueda himself, he was non secular. Horrible dictator, but the living conditions were much better while he was in power than they are now. IRAQ was a much better country than China for example which has the most deaths by the hands of their own government than any other country. Yet we deal heavily with China and have the majority of our product come from there... The terrorists were not from IRAQ or had any affiliation with IRAQ, they were mostly from Saudi Arabia, and they all lived in the US etc for years... The there is the excuse of WMD.. not only was now found (which means there was at LEAST not a HUGE amount) but countries like North Korea taunt us on a regular basis, they HAVE nukes, and we know it... and they test missiles while threatening us... but nothing there? ... so what is the war in IRAQ and Afghanistan over again? not WMD... not Terrorists who the government admits mostly are in sleeper cells and all over the world in different countries... ? I would say the same as usual... big war is big business. And your children will die for this corporation called the US military which no longer defends the constitution, they work to expand the empire and as cannon fodder for some rich politicians who have the highest conflicts of interest possible deciding war strategy and how they will send the money to companies that they hold stock in or sit as boards of directors on.. .Halliberton, Xe etc.
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Topic: Should the president send the troops to Iraq! (Read 4808 times)
May 31, 2010, 04:35:37 pm
