what do we owe to Iraqi civilians?

Question

To calculate the price that Iraqis have paid for the American misadventure in their country, you have to deal in big, round, horrifying numbers. Civilians killed last year: 34,000. Driven from their homes within Iraq: 1.8 million. Fled to other countries: an additional 2 million, and growing. The number of Iraqis who have found refuge in the United States is easier to pin down. This country has admitted a grand total of 466 Iraqi refugees since 2003.

However President Bush tries to manage the endgame of his dismal war, America has an obligation to the Iraqis whose lives it has upended. It owes a particular debt to those who have face

Thanks Jace.Obviously this question wasnt for you.A little too profound I think.How is this.Do you like chocalate ice cream or vanilla better?

Answer 1

Alright because you apparently were to young when we went to Iraq to understand what was going on. Here is the reason in the words of Democrats.

When I left office, there was a substantial amount of biological and chemical material unaccounted for. That is, at the end of the first Gulf War, we knew what he had. We knew what was destroyed in all the inspection processes and that was a lot. And then we bombed with the British for four days in 1998. We might have gotten it all; we might have gotten half of it; we might have gotten none of it. But we didn't know. So I thought it was prudent for the president to go to the U.N. and for the U.N. to say you got to let these inspectors in, and this time if you don't cooperate the penalty could be regime change, not just continued sanctions."
--Bill Clinton, July 22, 2003

"Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real..."
- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003

"I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force -- if necessary -- to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security."
- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Oct. 9, 2002

"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line."
- President Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998

"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."
- President Bill Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998

"We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction."
- Madeline Albright, Feb 1, 1998 |

"He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983."
- Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998

"[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs."
Letter to President Clinton.
- (D) Senators Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, others, Oct. 9, 1998

"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process."
- Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998

"Hussein has ... chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies."
- Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999
"We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandate of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and th! e means of delivering them."
- Sen. Carl Levin (D, MI), Sept. 19, 2002

"We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country."
- Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002

"Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power."
- Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002

"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction."
- Sen. Ted Kennedy (D, MA), Sept. 27, 2002

"The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capabilities. Intelligence reports indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons..."
- Sen. Robert Byrd (D, WV), Oct. 3, 2002

"There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years ... We also should remember we have always underestimated the progress Saddam has made in development of weapons of mass destruction."
- Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D, WV), Oct 10, 2002

"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members ... It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons."
- Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct 10, 2002

"We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction."
- Sen. Bob Graham (D, FL), Dec. 8, 2002


It is not the United States fault for what has happened. It is Saddams!!!

By the way: you misspelled chocolate. Idiot!

Answer 2

We deposed Saddam Hussein, promising a better government for the Iraqi citizens. Instead, we sent too few troops, and allowed the sectarian violence that we knew was just below the surface but which SH was keeping a lid on, to spew.

Colin Powell is attributed to a very famous remark made during Persian Gulf War I - If you break it, you own it.

Once we broke the peace in Iraq, we are obligated to fix it. We owe the Iraqis BIG.

Answer 3

The US invasion of Iraq (without a Declaration of War) has freed them from a dictator (Saddam), and put them in a more dangerous situation. The typical Iraqi is now a target of various terrorist factions, most of which are coming from outside Iraq (Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia).

I don't know what the US can do. I think that we should try help the people who are now the victims of the terror wh helped unleash on them. At the same time, we need to refrain from involvement in foreign entanglements. That is what made us the victim of terrorist attacks, in the first place.

Because of our involvement in the entanglements, we are seeing our freedoms disappear, supposedly to fight terrorism. I have an idea. Why don't we withdraw from all of these foreign wars, repeal the PATRIOT Act, and all of these Anti-Terrorism Acts that are shredding the Bill of Rights. We would restore freedom to the American people, stop the slaughter and wounding of American military personnel, and save untold billions of dollars that the actions in Iraq and around the world are costing the American taxpayers.

We need to replace the "Globalists" with what they call "Isolationists". We don't really believe in isolationism. We believe in trading with other countries. We agree with travel to other countries, and having people of other nations come here. We just don't want to get involved in their wars. Is that a bad thing?

If Pat Buchanan had been elected when he ran for president, we wouldn't be in this mess now.

Answer 4

We don't owe the Iraqis a damned thing.

In case you haven't been paying attention, the majority of civilian casualties are not being caused by US troops, as some people would have you believe, but by the INSURGENTS who drive buses into marketplaces and blow them up. If you'd watch the news with even the tiniest bit of an open mind, you'd see that the US is not engaged in total warfare as it was four years ago, and is conducting no major ground effort at the moment. For the most part, our troops are fighting a defensive war intermingled with efforts to find and eliminate insurgents and their hideouts.

For what we've been trying to do for them, WE don't owe THEM anything. THEY owe us EVERYTHING.

Answer 5

At this point we are stuck with cut and run, divide or finish out in some halfway quick and logical way. As Iraqis, we owe them some type of closer that gives them opportunity as a self-governing country and a start at an economy I think. As humans, we owe them a chance to become individuals and to better themselves- just as they and any other people owe us- In the midst of all of this Bush and our Government have to protect our interests and future safety--I wouldn't want the job.

Answer 6

Do you work for CNN? What did these numbers look like during the last 4 years of Saddam's rule before the war? In 5 years we won't owe anybody anything because Iraq will have a better economy than the U.S. does. Thanks 110th congress.

Answer 7

What saddens me is that the Democrats basically circled and pointed hands at Bush and the Republicans for invading Iraq because it change into reachable, even as overlaying up the actual shown reality that they needed to take down Saddam Insane because Bush Sr. change into in workplace. in spite of the undeniable fact that, what amazes me even more effective is the quantity of Democrats who claimed to have antagonistic the warfare from the starting up, even as the Senate vote for the warfare statement change into ninety 8-0!

Answer 8

well for starters how about all that money that the bush administration has pumped out of iraq in oil revenues for the last three years??? that money sure has not gone to them nor to the american people.

Answer 9

A better question is ? What does Iraq owe to their citizens?

Answer 10

If you break it you have to fix it. We destroyed their protection system, even if it was flawed. Now we have to put it back in place.