How many of you thought "BEFORE" the Iraq War started that Democracy could spread freedom?

Question

Was this just a justification to a war gone bad? Isn’t the thought of spreading freedom through Democracy by waging war counter productive? If the White house never told you that spreading freedom through Democracy was the only way to win the war on terror what would you have done to fight the Terrorist? Are we willing to sacrifice our Men and Women for a "Theory"? I don’t have that much faith in our government to wage war on a HUNCH that Democracy can end Terrorism. What about you.

excuse me Leo girl but I was a Marine For 8 years what did you do for this counrty

Answer 1

Its your pessimism that is giving the terrorist all the courage they need. Thank you for being responsible for killing more Iraqi's and more soldiers. Aren't you just so proud?

Answer 2

I agree. At first it was WMD's. Then regime change, which Dubya said he was not interested in as far back as the 2000 campaign. Then it was terrorism, and making John Q. Public think that somehow our borders were in the line of fire and we could be attacked any time. "Spreading democracy" is the way Dubya keeps the uninformed masses complacent about the war, playing on their patriotism. (Take a look at some of the NeoCons on here who spout their rhetoric and you'll see what I mean.) Suddenly the entire country had a flag on their porch.If the administration was really concerned about terrorism, Osama would be dead or in custody by now, not Saddam. 9/11 was a gift from God for Bush - he used it for his real agenda, which was to go into Iraq, by any means necessary. Yes, Saddam is evil and something had to be done, but he had nothing to do with 9/11. Now there are more terrorists than there were BEFORE 9/11! Democracy will not cure all ills - is our country perfect? Hell no. Why should we expect any different anywhere else? To my mind, this is no different from the Crusades.

Answer 3

I thought so, and still think so.

The Bush administration and the neocons can't do it, of course. We will be completely incapable of spreading freedom until we get rid of these folks, simply because their ties to the Christian version of the Taliban undermines the message and the intent. Hell, if I don't believe them, the folks in the Islamic countries sure won't, and that trust in our intentions is a vital part of the project.

But I do believe that there are things that could be done in the name of spreading democracy that would promote freedom. I even think that we could have removed Hussein in a way that would have worked towards this goal. Yes, using our military. Bush was simply too impatient, not willing to make the hard calls, and unwilling to make an attempt at leadership (he doesn't know the difference between leadership and power - a persistent fault of his). I think that if President Clinton hadn't had to defend us against the internal attacks during his second term, he might well have managed something in this area. It's tragic that we'll never find out.

Leogirl, that kind of diviseness plays right into the far right's hands. If you can't support the United States, I suggest you go find somewhere else to live.

Answer 4

Democracy is a few thing of the folk and this is like a pyramid with the tip down. It would not honestly desire that lots to tip over. And this is infiltrated via all kinds of "darkish forces". you won't be in a position to oppress it on every physique, using fact it is not a great occasion of ways democracy rather works (like "you're the two with or against us" and imprisoning random those with out any form of trial or protection, or perhaps torture them) and than there'll be an extremely instable difficulty. If a genuine democracy fights, they conflict with one arm on their back while in comparison with people who do not appreciate human rights and democracy. people who shoot at each and every door, at the instant are not any democrats. The preliminary justification have been the alleged and in no way shown or perhaps indicated ties from Saddam to terrorism, and the alleged WMD, that the UN inspectors already mentioned in the previous the conflict that weren't there. 2d justification grew to become into democracy. the real motives have been a strategic place interior the middle-east, oil and revenge on Saddam using fact the little boy George Junior wanted to end his fathers interest as a great emperor via eliminating Saddam from his throne.

Answer 5

With the entrenchment of quasi-democracy in Iraq, the country is sharply divided along the lines of reliegion and ethnicity. The minority shiites, who supported the Bush government in the invasion of Iraq have their leaders forced on the majority Sunnis. This has led to wanton loss of lives and properties.

Before America went to war in Iraq, she made the world to believe that Saddam Hussain posses weapons of mass destruction and about four years after the war, no weapon of mass destruction has been found in Iraq or any trace of it. Instead, Iran capitalised on the distraction and is now enriching Uranium for production of Nuclear weapon.

The war slogan was later changed to reflect a war to grant Iraqis freedom from oppressive Saddam regime. The sort of mitigated democracy brought to Iraq was a replica of the type Bush and his family has imposed on US.

Democracy can spread freedom, but not this kind of democracy, where the leaders are pre-determined by a cabal group, against the popular will and aspiration of the people.

Answer 6

LeoGirl, I hope you are joking.
You think that because American citizens are critical of the war in Iraq that we are helping the terrorists? You are seriously misguided if that's what you believe. Bush's justification for invading Iraq was 1. Iraq had WMDs, and 2. Iraq supportedt Al-Qaeda and had links to 9/11. Fast forward a few years and the Bush Administration admits that there were no WMDs found and no Iraq links to 9/11. So now we are involved in a mess in Iraq and young American soldiers are dying everyday for WHAT? Bush's rationale for the war now is to fight terrorism in the country. But it was our invasion of Iraq that has created the terrorism over there. The Bush administration mislead Americans into going to war with Iraq, and now we are told that we must continue the fight in Iraq to protect ourselves from terrorism. Get a grip people! Do you really think we are safer becuase of the war in Iraq? Are we supposed to send our young men and women to every end of the earth to sniff out and kill all the terrorists? We need to stop entangling ourselves in foreign conlicts and concentrate on what is going on at home. Do not live in constant fear of terrorism. Do not think that the war in Iraq is justified because we are fighting terrorists there. Bring the troops home, stop the unecessary deaths of our soldiers, and stop listening to the lies and propaganda of this war-mongering admnistration.

Answer 7

Oh my, let's wage a war and then they will be democratic. So since you think that did not work then we cannot call Germany a democratic type nation, nor Japan or Italy. We don't wage war for that reason, we do it to protect ourselves. You should ask if declaring war on Iraq was the correct move at that time - that is an entirely different problem.

Answer 8

I did. Now I am disillusioned.

Answer 9

well you can't stop ants from biting you , until you kill the whole mound.....................