In addition 2500 brave Americans won't be coming home :(
2006-09-01 01:53:36 · 13 answers · asked by Engineer Adam 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
First, to understand why it helps you should understand the history of war and how war isn't such a terrible thing. Many people don't necessarily understand war or why it occurs. Popular belief these days is that any loss of life is a tragedy and humans need to be infallible until old age.
However, by doing this we eliminate the need for people to look out for themselves. A popular eastern belief I've found while studying Bushido, or the way of the warrior, is that no matter who you are you should always keep death on your mind. By doing this you remind yourself that you are not immortal, you may not live to be 80, you may catch a stray bullet from an Iraqi, Insturgen, or American soldier. Even if you aren't doing anything wrong. This helps humans, as a whole, respect themselves and their family's.
To explain further, when you grow up and notice your mothers hands getting wrinkled, you come to the realization that she won't live forever, she is getting older, so from that realization you begin to respect and cherish her more.
There are over 3 million Iraqi and many more American people that have become refined through the idea that they or their family members may die at any time and to cherish what they have and who they really love. Compile that on top of overthrowing someone they didn't really like and you have some form of an answer. In essence this is partly the Bushido way of living. Dieing so that the many can be a little happier is a good death in my way of believing, much better than dieing as some movie star who did nothing but promote needless violence or sex.
Then also comes the question, well why does anyone need to die to see these things? Think about what you take advantage of. Think about the food you waste. Think about how you have mistreated your parents or elder, or how they have mistreated you because "They will always be there". It's basic humanity, as poor as it may sound. The constant thought of death reminds you to cherish your food and your parents, and for your parents to cherish you.
So yes over 50,000 people have died in this war. But it has improved the lives of not only the Iraqi people 3+ Million. But countless of us Americans that take our freedoms and over abundances for granted.
We have seen it in America, not a day in history was America so united and action taken so swiftly then when the towers fell. Those people who perished in the towers were not a waste of life by thinking they were you disrespect the lives they lead, they also served to save the lives of countless people in the future. As do the people who fall in battle in Iraq.
2006-09-01 02:32:48 · answer #1 · answered by mehoron 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Don't you know?? When you get rid of people, that opens up the job market and lowers unemployment. So, I would guess by now the workforce in Iraq is quite strong and flourishing. ( If you don't know sarcasm when you see it then don't ask anymore questions.) The administration wants us to believe that this 'War on Terror' is good for the Iraqi people. I lived in Los Angeles years ago and no one stopped the gangs in downtown from terrorizing people. Why isn't the Army there fighting terror. It is hippocritical brainwashing and control freak manipulation that is trying to tell the American people that this war is justified. No war is ever justified...it just is what it is...tragic.
2006-09-01 09:10:46 · answer #2 · answered by mark w 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't help Iraq, it doesn't help the U.S. It helps al Queada and every other terrorist group world wide. The atrocities the Bush junta has committed and continues to commit in Iraq aids them tremendously.
These drawbacks didn't deter the Bush junta to go for the oil, after all, Bush's masters, the oil industry, has given clear orders to the commander in clown to go get the oil.
All those dead people are nothing but a calculated, neglectable, discardable resource he Bush junta disposes of lightly in the name of profit.
2006-09-01 09:40:06 · answer #3 · answered by The answer man 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An idea of helping Iraq was USA propaganda for going to Iraq. So, I think that we all knew that USA didn't go to Iraq to help Iraq people. Although Americans like to see themselves as humanitarians. They also believe they are. Funny, ha?
2006-09-01 08:57:07 · answer #4 · answered by nelli 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It did not help Iraq. We are not over there to help them but to help ourselves to Iraq. Saying we are "helping" Iraq would be similar to saying that if a woman is a victim of domestic violence, to help her, we should go into her home, kill her and her children, then say she is better off because she is no longer suffering. Silly, but this is the administrations' logic.
2006-09-01 09:14:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Goose step your sorry Kansas butt over to France and tell it to the French!
2006-09-01 08:59:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Freedom comes with a price, a price we do not like or want!!!
2006-09-01 09:41:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How did 618,000 men dying in the civil war make this country better?
Freedom is not free!!!!!!
2006-09-01 08:56:43 · answer #8 · answered by 3rd parties for REAL CHANGE 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Isn't it supposed to teach them to love democracy?
2006-09-01 08:59:57 · answer #9 · answered by The Gadfly 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, at least they won't have to fear being put into mass-graves or torture / rape rooms anymore. IT'S CALLED GIVING THEM FREEDOM...
2006-09-01 08:56:41 · answer #10 · answered by DAVER 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋