I think they would have for sure. Iraq is probably the most dangereous place today to live in.
2006-12-29 14:24:56 · 27 answers · asked by googlebball 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
It will take a few decades to answer that question.
2006-12-29 14:34:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not like we just attacked them out of nowhere. Iraqi's and their hatred towards non-muslims and Americans is so out of hand that they'd do anything to see us swept off the face of this earth.
Sure, it's a dangerous place to live in today because none of them stand up for themselves and try to make a better life for themselves. How can you ask a question like this when our soldiers are putting their lives on the line? Regardless of whether or not things would have been better off for us, they're still out there and deserve all the respect in the world.
2006-12-29 22:59:28 · answer #2 · answered by ♥ Scorpio X 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If we did not attack him who would? The problem is if you let bad guys (he killed 300k of his own people) continue to abuse people, then more bad guys think, hey this is OK and I will do whatever I want. The world obviously thought Hussein was wrong with 17 UN declarations against him. So do you really think letting terrorists like him just abuse with no consequences is the best answer? Our attack on him caused Libya to change from killing folks to leaving them alone. But countless other terroists got scared and think twice about killing 300k people. So that is why is was right to attack, even tough I hate the fact people get hurt as a result.
2006-12-29 23:13:33 · answer #3 · answered by Lighthearted 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your entire knowledge of the situation comes from TV. Therefore you only see the bomb blasts that happen in a couple of cities. You don't see the families in the rest of the country, about the size of California that no longer fear the secret police in the middle of the night. The violence is almost exclusively in Baghdad and that province- Anbar. There is NO violence or unrest in the Kurdish north. Moderate violence in the Shiite south. Remember that these 2 regions were subject to genocide under Saddam. So they are defintely better off now.
If you only know of something from TV it is impossible to have any perspective over how bad it is or is not.
2006-12-29 22:32:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anthony M 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh sure, definitely, without a doubt...golly yes. Anytime a country that is run by an absolute...repeart...absolute dictator who let's his son's run killing/murder teams, rape rooms, torture cells and indiscriminate murder...
A dictator who used MD (GAS is part of the NBC trio o Wm's for those without military experience) to kill the Kurds in his country and to condoned the murder of his people who were of a different religion...a man who diverted water from the towns of those groups to fill the lagoons around the palace outside Baghdad...I was there and saw it done.
Oh yeah...if you think Iraq was better off then...consider this question. Would you have wanted to live in Iraq unless you were either a good buddy of a sadistic mass murdered or one of his lackeys living in fear?
I think that answers your question.
2006-12-29 22:39:04 · answer #5 · answered by iraq51 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bentframe is right. It is possible that by now we would have used diplomatic means to empower the Kurds and other minorities in Iraq.
Saddam, like any despot, might have been killed or deposed by his internal enemies.
What would the world be like if we had taken the billion dollars a week we are spending on the occupation and spent it on peace?
2006-12-29 22:29:04 · answer #6 · answered by San Diego Art Nut 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
NO. not in the long run the sunnies would be Cruched completely and there would now be the biggest and most steady terrorist incampment in the world....Ever. anyone one diagress needs to do some resaerch....write a letter to a soldier.
takes money to make money= sadly people have to die for people to live. if the French hadnt delayed us then we would be out
2006-12-29 23:54:56 · answer #7 · answered by james s 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's who were murdered, the thousands and thousands of Kuwaiti's, the hundreds of thousands of Iranian that all died at the hand of Saddam would all think that Iraq is a much better place to be in today.
2006-12-29 22:28:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I think Iraq would have been better off. But Saddam would still be alive if he hasn't been hung yet. Still bad things still happens while good men do nothing.
2006-12-29 22:27:31 · answer #9 · answered by howardlee1977 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You give the Iraqi people no chance to live in liberty and would damn them to dictatorship....
The problem is Islamic terrorists that are killing civilians and hiding among them.
Remember, you should have heard it by now. The majority of Muslims are peaceful.
If the Iraqi's can shake them off they will be better. No doubt about it!
2006-12-29 22:27:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I think yeah. I mean, first of all we didn't need to barge in to Iraq in the first place. For instance pretend your a seven year old who lives there. How would you feel then? Which brings me to my next point. The U.S scared so many children there. The worst part is that we didn't even have good reason. So, yeah I think it would have.
2006-12-29 22:31:20 · answer #11 · answered by Holly W 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋