Why are you Democrats oppossed to bringing "freedom" to all the oppressed people of the world?

Answer 1

I'm not a democrat, but the kind of freedom you're talking about is the freedom to be bombed, tortured, invaded, and lied to. Maybe you should get a good taste of the freedom you want to bring others. You're like a rapist who claims he is a hero bringing sexual freedom to the world.

I realize it's not your fault you've been brainwashed. But not even the fascist Bush regime that is destroying freedom in the U.S. and all over the world could have hoped for a stooge who is more blinded by their propaganda than you.

Answer 2

The last time I looked, the people of Iraq and Afghanistan were dying in great numbers, and don't sound or look very free to me. If you call that bringing "freedom" then you might ask why the majority of Iraqis, when asked, want us to get out of their country. Bush's brand of freedom at the point of a bomb and a gun has never worked in the past, and is not working now. That is why most people in the world, including democrats, do not support his approach.

Answer 3

And who have the Republicans brought freedom to exactly? Not Darfur, not N. Korea, not Iran, not Syria, not China, and Iraqis have the freedom to either fight in a civil war or be occupied by the US military forever. The whole point of freedom is that you do things on your own so until the US leaves Iraq they aren't really free. More like half free.

Answer 4

Why do you Republicans put "freedom" in quotes?

The answer to your question is in the asking. You can't force "freedom" down people's throats. Then it's not "freedom."

It is not "freedom" if we say "you can elect any leaders you want, as long as the U.S. approves of them."

A significant percentage of the population of Iraq wants to split off a separate country and become a fundamentalist muslim theocracy like Iran. But they are not "free" to do so. We won't let them.

And a significant *majority* of Iraqis want us out ... NOW. But we won't leave. Exactly how "free" do you think that makes them feel?

I don't know what it is this Administration is selling to the Iraqis ... but it most certainly is NOT "freedom." When they see American soldiers dropping bombs and cruising their streets with tanks and humvees, we make it look an awful lot like slavery.

Answer 5

George Bush and Company have had such an affinity for other freedom loving nations like Saudia Arabia, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan.

Those countries are model democracies.

Answer 6

AND BY GOLLY THEY ARE GOING TO DO IT MY WAY OR ELSE ! ! !

Now I wonder why some in the world would take exception to that.

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Here is a little tidbit that I came across. I'll let you decide if you think the people in Iraq are better off now than they were before we invaded their country.

"Iraq war death toll may be more than in 25 years of Saddam brutality -12/10/06

Astonishing new on-the-ground research published in today’s edition of The Lancet by a US university team suggests that an estimated 655,000 Iraqis may have died since the 2003 US-led invasion – people who would otherwise be alive today.

The survey compares mortality rates before and after the war from 47 randomly chosen areas in Iraq. The overall fatality figure is far higher than estimates by official sources or the number of deaths reported in the media and by other lobby or academic groups.

Even at the extremes of statistical variability, the death figure extrapolated from the verified data – interviews in which claims and causes of death were matched against death certificates and confirmed reports – would be some 300,000 people

The research findings were immediately dismissed by supporters of the war in Iraq, including US President George W Bush. They have also begun to cause outrage in the Muslim world.

Church opponents of the war are saying that it highlights the extraordinary catastrophe of a conflict which was supposed to be about eliminating a dictatorship, backing human rights, promoting democracy and ensuring regional and global security.

John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHBSPH) estimate that the mortality rates have more than doubled since the invasion to overthrow Saddam Hussein, causing an average of 500 deaths a day.

It sis being suggested that more people may have died in three years than in 25 years of the brutal Saddam Hussein dictatorship. Tonight anti-war activists described the findings as “disgraceful”.

In the recent past, President Bush has put the civilian death toll in Iraq at 30,000. Only hours after details of the latest research were published he dismissed the methodology as “pretty well discredited”.

But John Hopkins researchers argue their statistical approach is more reliable than counting dead bodies, given the obstacles preventing more comprehensive fieldwork in the violent and insecure conditions of Iraq, reports the BBC.

Researchers spoke to almost 1,850 families, comprising more than 12,800 people in dozens of 40-household clusters around the country. Of the 629 deaths they recorded among these families since early 2002, 13% took place in the 14 months before the invasion and 87% in the 40 months afterwards.

A trend like this repeated nationwide would indicate a rise in annual death rates from 5.5 per 1,000 to 13.3 per 1,000 - meaning the deaths of some 2.5% of Iraq's 25 million citizens in the last three-and-a-half years. It is the extrapolation that will occasion interpretatative disputes about assumptions and margins of error.

The survey updates earlier research using the same "cluster" technique which indicated that 100,000 Iraqis had died between the invasion and April 2004 - a figure also published in the respected medical journal The Lancet. This was also dismissed by many supporters of the US-led coalition.

Critics point to the discrepancy between this and other independent surveys (such as Iraq Body Count's figure of 44-49,000 civilian deaths, based on media reports), but the Bloomberg School team says its method may actually underestimate the true figure.

The survey claims that most of the extra deaths - 601,000 - would have been the result of violence, mostly gunfire, and suggests that 31% could be attributable to action by US-led coalition forces"

Answer 7

we are not that's why we are so happy about November 7.
It is the republicans who have oppressed the middle class and poor with their tax cuts for the rich.
It is the Republicans who have attacked and watered down our Constitutional rights.
It is the Republicans who would not allow this Nation to have a serious investigation of 9/11.

Answer 8

Lets just say you don't like your neighbors, and how they run their lives, do you go over and whip them? Out side of getting arrested you will not change their lives by doing that. We really have enough problems in this country without spending the capital and lives on some other country.

Answer 9

How could that be, when they are set to free the oppressed in their own nation? Dimwit neocons will naturally resist.

Answer 10

You definitely have it backwards! The Republicans are the ones who want to make the world conform to their ideas. They stick their noses into everybody else's business.