Double Standards?

Question

Why is it acceptable for the West to have double standards when it comes to civilian death, and civil liberties? 9/11 started the War on Terror, with the death of many American civilians. The US invaded Iraq to depose the "dangerous" tyrant Sadam Hussein, who supposedly had a hand in it, and used "shock and awe" tactics, namely dropping many hundreds of tons of explosives on Baghdad, causing the death of many hundreds (thousands?) of civilians, and hardship for countless others. Why is this acceptable, and 9/11 wasn't?

Also, why is it acceptable for Bliar (apologies, i don't know about america) to remove the right to trial by jury, to be arrested with charge, peaceful protest outside parliament, among many other rights removed in recent years, yet to criticise Iran, Syria etc. for not having the same "democracy" as the West, if we systematicly destroy hundreds of years of democracy and freedoms in a few months?

Sadam Hussein is not the issue, what's done is done, however wrong or right it was. He's gone, whether that is a good thing or not is irelevant.

1) It is the West, because Britain, France, Germany, Australia, Canada, Japan etc all do not condemn the US for their bombing.
2) America implemented shock and awe tactics, knowing full well that many civilians would perish. This suggests either complacency in the extreme, or a willingness to kill civilians to frighten (or terrorise)
3) Any state that says it can do what it wants because it can is fascist.
4) I am not a terrorist, nor do I condone what terrorists do, killing people is wrong full stop. Nor am I Muslim.

Answer 1

We can go back and forth about UN resolutions. Wartime collateral damage versus outright targeting of civilians. But I am sure you are not bright enough to really understand all that, or you wouldn't be asking the question in the first place.

Here as an alternative is another reason.
Because we can. Lets drop the "west" nonsense, we are talking America. We can do whatever the hell we feel like doing. And we can call it whatever we feel like calling it. Unless you little terrorists want to stop fighting like girls, and come out and fight like men, we will continue to laugh at you.

You are a disgrace to the muslim religon. Allah will not be merciful on your soul.

Answer 2

Mindless revenge is most war supporters' motives. What do they care about democratic values? They don't use what they have, because they always follow whoever is The Leader Against Our Enemies. And they have no idea how it is when there aren't any rights - most Britons and Americans lead very comfortable lives and their concerns do not require having rights [shopping, tv shows, holiday at the beach, etc.]. Once they get a few golden eggs, they discard the goose that laid them, and they're happy.

Same things are going on here in the US. Being realistic looks like cynicism or your standard dismissal of politicians, but basically, Bush wanted to punish Saddam for personal reasons, the business types in government saw an oil opportunity, the civilian masters of the military were incredibly simple-minded about the sentiments of Iraqis and vastly underestimated the cost, and this government needed a 'war' so as to ram a lot of stuff through that they find convenient to have as government powers.....and that is hardly the extent of their radicalism and incompetence.

Blair is what I don't understand, but I think that he got on the bandwagon because he thought there would be some kind of prestige and profit for Britain, and now I think he really knows that he overestimated the power and competence of the US, such that if he had to do it all over again, he wouldn't go along.

Answer 3

Most people repeat what they hear from the Israeli lobby in the USA only not in the west most Western countries are for a Palestinian state for years and they forced the USA to take te same position

Answer 4

There were more than 500,000 Iraqi children killed by the U.S. and U.K. "BETWEEN" the Gulf War and 9-11 through indiscriminate bombings. Somehow, FOX News seems to always miss that little bit of information. I wonder why???

Answer 5

The american people in power want to occuppy entire of world.

Answer 6

So you are saying that you would still like saddam to be in power today?

Answer 7

Saddam is that you?