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Originally posted by IowaStatePhiPsi
I like to think of American history with Iraq:
We're America. We caused thousands of deaths to occur at the hands of a genocidal regime by encouraging them to revolt saying we would back them and then changing our minds and leaving them to be slaughtered.
Ah... the legacy of the Bush I.
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That was horrible, but we didn't perform that genocide, and it was not known that our actions would cause a genocide.
It is the lagacy of G.H.W. Bush. Its also the legacy of Clinton. He could have stopped it, and didn't. Just like Rwanda. I wouldn't bring partisan politics into the subject of genocide because Clinton has the worst record of any president on that subject.
But that was then. Looking at Iraq now, it is intellectually dishonest to bring up the civilian deaths of the recent war without bringing up the civilians who were spared from the Baathists.