ok libbys heres the Q
why do yall complain about iraq when a couple years ago yall were complaining about us NOT goin into rwanda
if you look at rwanda and iraq theyre almost identical genocide bad goverment iraqis killing other iraqis over religions
rwandans killing other rwandans religions
its almost the same situation i bet if we went into rwnada and the same thing in iraq happend yall would be biting your tounges or yall would say it was a just cause and we helped africa yayyyyy just cause you agree with it
plz answer me this its been bothering me for while
2006-12-02 11:32:00 · 14 answers · asked by Army__Strong 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
corvuequis: Do your history on Iraq. Shia and Sunni have been killing each other for decades. How do you think Saddam took power?
Right, cause Saddam was slaughtering not only thousands of Kurds and Shia, but Sunni too? Not over Religion what so ever, strictly power huh?
2006-12-02 11:41:27 · answer #1 · answered by SGT 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am a liberal and I never complained about not going into Rwanda. Personally I think if genocide is going on in a country it should be something that NATO needs to get involved in. I don't feel that the US needs to be big brother all the time. Also I don't think the reason why Bush went to Iraq was because of the genocide. He didn't mention it much before going to war with them. He just kept claiming that Iraq had something to do with 911 and that they had weapons of mass destruction which were both false. So I'm glad we didn't go to Rwanda but I am not happy about being in Iraq. So please stop stereotyping liberals because not all of us complained about not going to Rwanda.
2006-12-02 14:08:36 · answer #2 · answered by Sha 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First and foremost no-one was killing anyone over religion in Iraq until we went in there and removed a Bad Man that the first bush should have removed. Second we were lied to about WMD's. Third by the time we found out about Rwanda it was too late.
Sgt That was a war Between Iraq and Iran two soverign nations. Do your own gd research. The people that wher killed in Iraq by Saddam was not over religion but Power.
2006-12-02 11:38:52 · answer #3 · answered by corvuequis 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My main problem with President Bush & Iraq is that he used false pretenses to get us there. He didn't believe in "nation-building"-see his Presidential debates. He said they had wmd's (okay we had receipts for them since the US gave them to Sadaam.) He said Sadaam was the worst dictator-I believe he was 10th on the list the year we went to war-yes a very bad man-but how about the truth. Bush said Sadaam had ties to Bin Laden-which weren't true-they hated each other. He used our fervor and patriotism after 9/11 not to get Bin Laden but to go into Iraq. His own father wrote a book about Iraq and about how taking Sadaam out would certainly lead to chaos and civil war. Also, civil wars are militarily fought completely differently. Bush has lost any trust or political capital because he doesn't tell the truth. Rwanda is definitely civil war & genocide. GW still insists Iraq is not in the middle of Civil War. And, if you even say, for some reason or another, we needed to go into Iraq, it's completely obvious that we didn't go in with nearly the troop strength needed! Now we have a mess we have no idea what to do with. Also Iraq has oil, nothing we want in Rwanda.
2006-12-02 11:48:56 · answer #4 · answered by Middleclassandnotquiet 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not a liberal, but a conservative, I'll give you an answer any way.
Iraq and Rwanda are very different. No genocide in Iraq. Actually very stable until the US invaded and destroyed all infrastructure. No longer any genocide in Rwanda either. Maybe you mean Darfur region of Sudan? The U.S. is to blame for gross loss of life in Iraq. We have nothing to do with the conflict in Sudan. We could easily help with genocide in Sudan, but big business (Oil companies, Haliburton) has nothing to gain by us doing so.
2006-12-02 11:42:45 · answer #5 · answered by Scott C 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
two issues
Saddams genocides were years ago... he was still a dictator, but it's been years since anything that would be considered a genocide has been done...
Rwandas were going on right then...
going to a genocide 5-10 years late, doesn't really help the tens of thousands that are already dead...
and we didn't go to Iraq because of genocide, we went because of WMD made post gulf war... and they weren't there... I don't like waging a war for a reason that turns out to be false
2006-12-02 11:36:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
ok the death tolls would be one thing... beyond that Iraq had a stable, if evil, government... africa? not so much...
but heres the kicker... Bush never said we're going in because Saddam is a bad guy... remember the WMD lie? Thats the big deal... justification. That and the risk to our soldiers who do not deserve the fate they were dealt by Bush.
If nothing else helping out in Africa will always be a more noble quest because Africa needs more help....
2006-12-02 11:36:14 · answer #7 · answered by flawed broadcast 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I look at Iraq and Rwanda as two entirely different problems...kinda like being homeless and not having cable TV. Two different issues.
We invaded Iraq for one reason and one reason only.....OIL.
I hope this doesn't bother you anymore.
2006-12-02 11:42:33 · answer #8 · answered by daljack -a girl 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because I gave my thump up vote to two very good answers given to you and because I don't want repetition, I will say only this to you and I hope you get its message. It was Jesus Christ who said "Makarioi oi ptoxoi to pnevmati" which in plain English translates roughly "Blessed be the ignorant"
2006-12-02 12:09:03 · answer #9 · answered by Nikolas S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The dog Bush, whom you adore and admire is the worst president in all history.
Hope you find another brain to think with. Or, see you speaking Chinese in about 5 years.
2006-12-02 11:51:33 · answer #10 · answered by Truth 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋