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Originally posted by enlightenment06
and why are the soldiers dying in Iraq? Because Saddam Hussein had WMD's? Which we really have no clue if they really exist. How can you justify that to a dead soldier's family? Every day more soldiers are getting killed, and why? Because Bush doesn't want to turn control over to the U.N., because the U.S. has to be the "top dog."
Look, I'm from NYC, and we have alot of roaches in NYC. When there's a problem with roaches, everyone knows you can't solve the problem by trying to kill them all, it just doesn't work. You think they're gone and they're not. What you have to do is figure out where the roaches are coming from and then alleviate the problem that way. Using our troops to run around the world shooting people isn't going to make anyone safer. Violence begets more violence.
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We are not in Iraq for WMD. We are not in Iraq for money. We are in Iraq, believe it or not, because 9-11 was a huge wakeup call. That region needs to be transformed. We got off light on 9-11. If a nuclear weapon could have been used, it would have. Look at a map. Our approach to the War on Terror is geopolitical.
Iraq may have had nothing directly to do with 9-11, but they have done many things before, and after that warranted intervention. After 9-11, Iraq started to pump money into Jihadist groups that recruit from Palestinian camps. They cranked up their propaganda machine in the region. They made it very difficult for the US to assert the point that state support for the madrasses that teach hatred towards the US is unacceptable. They were proactive in promoting concepts that the US is responsible for every bad thing that happens in that region, including potholes and broken street lights (no joke.) But worst of all, they were genocidal.
Personally, I am still ashamed that the U.S. did nothing about Rwanda in 1994. And I am ashamed that we did nothing about Iraq. There are few nations on this planet that are genocidal. Iraq was one. The UN has consistently proved incompetent when dealing with genocidal regimes. It was in the first week of March of this year when Eli Weisel, the Nobel Peace Prize winning authority on genocide, met with President Bush and asked him to do what was needed to remove the Baathists. If for no other reason than genocide, the war was a noble and just war.
But like all wars, this one was not fought for just one reason. There was the moral imperative to remove a genocidal regime. There was also a geopolitical need to place an independent democracy right in the middle of the problem nations. Does anyone think that Iran is happy to border a pro-US Afghanistan
and a pro-US Iraq? Does the Saudi Royal Family like having an educated, and pluralistic democracy next door? How happy is Syria seeing their neighboring authoritarian state become an open democracy? Look at a map, and becomes very obvious.
So why was WMD even brought up? Because Tony Blair needed the cover of a UN sanctioned path in. WMD was not brought up to deceive the American people, and the truth is that
all intelligence agencies of all nations that we have intelligence sharing agreements with believed that Iraq had WMD. The WMD argument may have been false, but it was not intentionally false.
With, or without, the WMD argument, there was a synergy of motivating factors to go in. We went in, and the job is being done. I am very proud the the US went into Iraq, and I am very proud that fewer innocent Iraqi civilians will die from the combined efforts of the Baathist regime, and from collateral damage in 2003 then died at the hands of the Baathist regime in 2002.
After all, Al Qaeda is still attacking, but don't you think that they would rather kill innocent Americans on American soil, than innocent Muslims on Arabian soil? And as a New Yorker who lives a 5 minute walk from the World Trade Center site, I know that I am safer today because of the current administration's efforts.
We did the right thing. We did the necessary thing.
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