Why do liberals claim to care about American deaths in Iraq?

Question

There were more crime related deaths in the state of California
in the year 2004, at just over 2400, than in the first 4 years of
The war on terror in Iraq.

Also, Liberals throw a tantrum about civilian deaths, but never said
a word when Saddam was doing it on purpose.
Saddam put tens of thousands to death a year.

Answer 1

It's all about political leverage, Notice that Kennedy is a hero to most liberals, but they won't mention the 55,000 U.S. soldiers lost in Vietnam.

FDR hero to liberals hundreds of thousands U.S. soldiers lost in Europe during WW2.

Vietnam never attacked the U.S., Germany never attacked the U.S.

If Bill Clinton had been president and taken the same steps as Bush, they would be claiming he was the greatest president of all time and a national hero.

They will deny this of course, but we all know that it is true.

Answer 2

The correlation of crime in California and Iraq is specious. And as to your claim of silence about Saddam's crimes, where were you? Everyone, liberals and conservatives were outraged. But it is a convenient lie to say "never said a word" isn't it?

You guys try to put the Big Spin on the Boy Genius's war but it just ain't flying. The most foolish and ill conceived foreign policy blunder in 100 years. There is no good outcome.

Answer 3

Why do conservatives think that liberals don't really care about American deaths in Iraq?

Why do conservatives bring up Saddam's murders of his own people as justification "but never said a word" back when they were giving him money and weapons in an attempt to check the growing power of Iran in the region?

For that matter, why do conservatives insist on the benefits of democracy as an excuse for attacking Iraq when the American government and the CIA have a long history of destabilizing democratically elected governments all over the world that they don't like (like in Chile, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, for example) while giving support to the violent regimes of brutal right-wing dictators or other repressive states who are vehemently anti-democratic (like in Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, for example)?

Answer 4

The philosophy is real to itself, that's what the capacity hungry do to it that makes it a faux hood. real socialism, communism, democracy, liberalism, or conservatism isn't a bad element that is in basic terms yet in a distinctive thank you to run a society. No single political equipment will please all of its human beings. that is declared that a democracy isn't something greater beneficial than mob rule the place fifty one% get to tell 40 9% to fcuk off. bear in mind: All politicians lie All politicians want wealth and capacity. All politicians will do or say something to get it or shop it. To counter the lies. carry the politicians to blame, develop into an knowledgeable voter that does no longer compromise his/her innovations. .

Answer 5

It was not liberals that turned a blind-eye to the atrocities Saddam committed against his own people. It was the same men (men from the Reagan and H.W. Bush administrations) that were in bed with Saddam, supplying him with the weapons, technology and capital it took to do it. They had no problem with Saddam as long as he was lobbing bombs at Iran. America's right-wing were business partners with him until Saddam double crossed them by ending the conflict with Iran and then tried to take back Kuwait.

Answer 6

Because they do... You may set and spot out numbers saying that the deaths of 2400 fellow Americans is just a mere statistic, but let me ask you if it were more... would you still hold your ground? will you find it then time to be patriotic for the deaths that you feel is too short of a number now? You shouldn't ask why liberals claim to care about Americans, instead you should ask why you see the death tolll as just another statistic. Maybe its because none of that 2400 was someone that you know, maybe its cause you see it as just another price to be paid, or maybe you yourself don't care about them.

Answer 7

These numbers games from the right are really pathetic and ultimately meaningless. There was criticism from the left of Iraqi civilian deaths before the invasion but the right was too busy hammering the Clinton's for every little thing to listen.

Answer 8

Crime related deaths in California has no correlation to the loses in Iraq. If you are referring to Gov. Ahnold as a liberal, he is a conservative Republican. As for liberals not caring about the hundreds of thousands of Shiite & Kurd lives lost at the hands of Saddam, wasn't it Rumsfeld who was seen shaking Saddam's hand and offering him military support in the 80's so he could continue his reign of terror? Also, why did Bush #41 pull back support for the Kurds and Shiites to overthrow Saddam after Desert Storm which caused the chemical gassing deaths of entire villages in retaliation? Seems to me Rumsy & G.H.W. Bush are conservative "freedom fighters". Politics makes strange bedfellows--even conservatives like bedding down with tyrants if the price is right.

Answer 9

Nice try, Skippy.

Just because people have different opinions on the war in Iraq does not make them monsters who do not care about people's deathes there. In fact, that they are passionate about their opinions means they care very much.

Plus, plenty of people, liberal and conservative, spoke up about Saddam Hussein before the war. Why didn't they do anything about him? You might ask George H. W. Bush. He could have proceeded to Baghdad and removed Saddam from power during the Persian Gulf War. But he knew that, if he did, the situation would grow even worse . . . and so it has.

Answer 10

Quite frankly more Americans die each year in the Nation's Capital than have been killed in Iraq. So logically we should pull out of DC first!