Would that make us friends and win gratification instead of death and enemies were we disperese $480 billion?
2006-09-26 23:50:53 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
An alternative would be not to support a tyrant/dictator in the first place and let him go on for decades killing his own people then make believe that you never supported it in the first place.
2006-09-26 23:58:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think the alternative would have worked. Saddam who gladly have taken the money of course, but you would not have given it to the Iraqis.
Your representatives(House and Senate) should of course never have allowed the money to be spent on that war.
Another, better, alternative seems to me that you develop a new national sport: Bush bashing
2006-09-27 07:04:04 · answer #2 · answered by Dick V 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NOPE!! they would have used your money to build more bombs and train more terrorists!! I think the US should simply have left Iraq alone, we all know now that there really was no justification for the war.. US in the 70s and 80s did supply Saddam and support him when times were good, (against Iran) but suddenly remembered he was a terrorrist?
2006-09-27 06:59:11 · answer #3 · answered by busola h 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the first place this is rewarding bad behavior, which only encourages further bad behavior. Tell a thug, listen, I'll give you my wallet and my watch, hell even my house, just leave me alone. Next week at the same atm machine, will he be more likely or less likely to be waiting for you at the same atm machine?
Second, the issue has never been about money. They want us to obey them, period. Don't believe me? Listen to them say it out loud, in public, to cheering crowds at the links on my blog. Click on the BOLD letters on the post titled, 'In Their Own Words' at http://judgeright.blogspot.com
2006-09-27 07:02:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You didn't just go there! I don't think they would spend that money on bubble gum and singing lessons. That would be buying off the country, just like somebody who has no friends trying to buy them with expensive gifts.
2006-09-27 07:47:07 · answer #5 · answered by mindrizzle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, they are killing each other in a power struggle. Nothing to do with money.
They are an oil producer so when it is over, they will have money...its just will they be free our under another murderous Theocracy!
2006-09-27 07:32:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If Iraq had remained secular, and taken out the corrupt Saudis and radical ayatollahs, I vote YES.
2006-09-27 07:32:21 · answer #7 · answered by Mike P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What would some of them spend that money on? RPG's? Explosive components? So that they can kill each other? I think so.
2006-09-27 06:56:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doing that might have made more enemies!
2006-09-27 06:54:33 · answer #9 · answered by kitty fresh & hissin' crew 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is not a solution to the problem.
2006-09-27 07:03:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋