Does the United States have the right to judge other country's political systems?

Question

If not, can some Bush supporter try ONE MORE TIME to tell us why we attacked Iraq?

Do you prefer the death squads we are FUNDING in Iraq right now????

archangel, I badly want the Iraqis to be free...of American imperialists.

scrap_goodie - so Iraq is behind 9/11? Is that all you got after 4 years?????

pointless, we fund the Iraqi army, police, and all the militia in the various ministries. They are all riddled with death squads.

Here's an article on how America modeled the death squad in the Iraqi Interior Ministry on the death squads it funded in El Salvador in the 1980s:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/01/magazine/01ARMY.html?ei=5088&en=f0604488a64924cd&ex=1272686400&pagewanted=all&position=

Answer 1

You must really like death squads, don't you?

That's what Saddam had.

You be the judge.

EDIT - You provide proof of the death squads you allege we fund now. You can't.

LMAO - Commandos fighting insurgent = death squads? Put down the bong, brother!

Answer 2

One wonders if there is a correlation between America's increasing tendency to judge other country's political systems with the increasing dissolution and devestation of our own Republic.

Right now, I can't say that we do. How can we claim to watch over other people's democratic rights when we can't even manage to have a fair and truly elected president for eight years, and when our own elections are so incredibly dirty?

How can we judge other nations' interactions with the rest of the world when we can't seem to stop destroying other countries through the IMF and World Bank?

How can we judge another country for invading a country illegally and without UN approval, when we have now done so ourselves?

Thank you for pointing this out to me. I had been so focused on how the rich in this nation were using various plights and problems of the poor to distract us from their shennanigens, but I hadn't consciously realized how much they were using judgments of other countries' to distract us from making judgment about our own!

Answer 3

The most idiotic thing is the State Department report card on human rights and democracy. Gitmo is an outrage and to think the country that uses the rendering plan (sending suspects to countries so the suspect can be tortured) is judging anyone makes us a world wide joke.

Answer 4

Here's my attempt at your 2 part question:

1. Absolutely we have as much right to judge other countries as they do to judge us. The only way you can perceive the world is through your own judgments.

2. I am not a Bush supporter, but here is, at least in part, a justification for the War in Iraq:

Abdul Rahman Yasin held and Iraqi passport after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. After skipping bail in New Jersey as one of the most wanted men in U.S. history, he made it through Jordan to Baghdad in a matter of hours.

Zarqawi is another excellent example of Saddam's terrorist ties. Millions of Iraqis can tell you that, like the Iron Curtain, it was extremely difficult to enter of leave Iraq's borders. So how did this man, dubbed by bin Laden as al-Quaida's "Prince of Iraq," end up there? In order to believe that Saddam was unaware of his presence, you would have to believe:

a. A low-level Iraqi official decided to admit a much-hunter Jordanian - a refugee from the invasion of Afghanistan, AFTER, 9/11/01 - when even the most conservative forces in Pakistans and Saudi Arabia were keeping their distance from such people and even assisting in rounding them up.

b. That this newly admitted immigrant felt that the most pressing need of the Holy War was the assassination of Kurdish leaders opposed to the rule of Saddam Hussein.

c. That a recently arrived Jordanian, in a totally controlled police state, was so enterprising as to swiftly put himself in possession of maps, city diagrams, large sums of cash and a group of heavily armed fighters hitherto named after the Iraqi dictator himself - the "Fedayeen Saddam."

I could go on and on. Of course Saddam had terrorist ties!

Answer 5

We don't like chinese gov. we judge other political systems every day. To remove a brutal dictator, who ignored 17 UN resolutions. we had the right to attack them after the first one. as far as the death squads goes, where is your proof we fund the? If u can't show any then SHUT UP

Answer 6

Might makes right. That's the essence of democracy.

The US has the political and military might to get involved, which (in the world as it works) gives them the right.

Note that has nothing to do with what the laws say.

Answer 7

The right? Definitely not, but they think they are the World Police.
Empires are all the same, just look at the history books.

Answer 8

Yes we can

Say if 6,000,000 jews and christians are being exterminated we step in.

or a couple hundred thousand kurds for that matter.

C'mon lib open your big thoughtful heart and lets win Iraq and let those people be free too,

Answer 9

NO THEY DON'T HAVE THAT RIGHT...

and yet they continue to dictate, declare war on other countries, all under the guise of democracy and terrorist threats...


this is an utter joke.... it baffles me to see all the people whom believe this crap....

it's a testimony to how gullible people can be....

Answer 10

Of course, the difference is do we have the right to attack them for it? Only under the umbrella of the UN.