If Democrats Say that the Iraq War is Unjust, Then Why Didn't Dems Insist That Saddam Be Restored To Power?

Question

Democrats apparently are giving an implicit standing ovation to Bush's capture of Saddam.

Answer 1

Um...because Saddam is dead...

Answer 2

This question is sad and I say that being a conservative who supports the war. I have not found any Democrats who believe that Saddam was anything close to a good or just leader. While I will admit that many ignore many justifications for the war, such as violations of the ceasefire agreement, I think it is dishonest to paint them as having supported Hussein's regime. This tactic is no different than Democrats arguing that WMDs were the only reason given to invade Iraq. What we need is truth in our discussion involving Iraq, not weak hyperbole designed to incite.

Answer 3

Listen dude--- wake up ---

Now try to understand--- who's created Saddam in the first place, who've sold arms to Iraq during Iraq-Iran war, Who's created , trained, assisted the Talibans, --- Definitely the Gr8 USA, AKA, Mr. Regan,Mr, Bush , Junior & Senior,

There's no big deal about Saddam's stuff,,,

Listen Dude,,, This is a GOP propaganda, Making sure US citizens greatest fear is turned into a vote bank for the republicans. Wake up dude,,, just Wake up,,,, It's US foreign policy that's making USA very very hostile in all other countries globally..

Answer 4

The stated purpose of the Iraqi War was to address an imminent threat to the United States -- to disarm a country that had proven reserves of weapons of mass destruction.

There were stockpiles of gas. Yellowcake from Niger. Uranium tubes. We knew where they were, and we needed to destroy them. We had diagrams of the mobile chemical weapons labs. We had pictures of drones Iraq could use to deliver payloads to the US.

Cheney, Bush, Rice, Powell beat the war drums like a Peter Gabriel album.

So, how did that all turn out?

Well, once that rationale was proven to be an obvious terrible fraud on the American people, all of a sudden the retroactive rationale for war was to remove Saddam Hussein.

Was it worth $450 billion to remove the leader of a third world country thousands of miles away that posed no threat to the U.S. -- against the will of the people of the US and along with an abuse of the Constitution and of civil liberties?

NO WAY IN HELL!!

Answer 5

Looking for loopholes?
"are giving"... is that present tense?
Saddams capture is old news as well as the PACK OF LIES uttered by the government to justify invasion.
Bush wanted to invade Iraq before 911.
911 was just a pretense.(or maybe we can call 911 an OPPORTUNITY)

Now that the damage is done we can at least make effort to get Iraqi Security forces up to some level of competance.

It is going to take a while to clean up DUBYAS mess.

Answer 6

Because that would be a pretty stupid thing to insists on. Beleiving the war was unjust doesn't mean you want Saddam restored to power.

Answer 7

You are mixing apples with oranges. Dems recognize that Saddam was evil. However, he did not have WMD so there was no reason to invade Iraq. He could have been removed from office through other means. The US has gotten rid of other dictators without invading their country.

Answer 8

You're a typically ignorant Reich - oops, right - winger, hiding behind a keyboard instead of signing up for military duty. Go to Iraq if you think the war is justified...unless you're spineless, of course.

If Saddam was so bad, why did Ronnie Raygun approve selling WMDs (anthrax and mustard gas) to Saddam in the 1980s? It was Dumb Donald Rumsfelch - oops, Rumsfeld - who went to Iraq and sold them to Hussein personally. Check the 1984 US Congressional record for proof.

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/press.htm
http://www.diosa.net/art-net/RumsfeldHussein.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDABe8AOuCQ&eurl=

The US sold the weapons knowing Hussein was using them against Iranians and Kurds. Dick "in your face" Cheney was part of that whitehouse misadministration.


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Answer 9

Just because many of us believe going to war, and invading a sovereign country under false pretenses is unjust it doesn't mean we supported Saddam in any way.

Answer 10

there is no implication that democrats were sided with Saddam, they just wanted to wash their hands of Iraq is all

Answer 11

For the 800th time...the Iraquis carried out the justice and had him executed........even if the Dems wanted him restored to power (which I highly doubt) there isn't a thing they could have done about it.