the iraq war?

Question

If they hanged Saddam for crimes against humanity , then why not Blair and Bush , who have done the same thing.

Answer 1

Obviously you are very mis-informed.

Saddam killed over a million people. Even the liberal group Iraq body count claims a maximum of over 65,000 reported civilian deaths since the start of the war.

Sure now the deaths in Iraq are reported every day in the US press, but before there were far more people in Iraq being killed, but it was not being reported in the US press.

All Bush and Blair did was try to decrease human suffering in Iraq, and if their efforts were not undermined in the US and UK then their efforts would have succeded much better.

Right now there are millions of people being killed in Darfour in Sudan, and the US and the rest of the world is not going to do a thing about it, because the only way to stop it is to get involved.

Over a million people died in Rawanda in the 1990s, we could have greatly reduced the slaughter by getting involved. But the "peace" movement prevailed and has prevented our involvement in that conflict.

Leaders have to make choices, sometimes it is the difficult choice between the likelyhood of doing nothing while millions are killed or getting involved and reducing the number of deaths to a few thousand.

Sadly for the world it is a whole lot easier to ignore a million deaths when our nation is not involved, than to tolerate a few thousand being killed by violence when we are involved.

Answer 2

Blair and Bush have not done the same thing. I was in the first Gulf War and my brother just returned home from this one. I have and will never answer another question about this situation, but I feel you are misinformed, young and watch the news to much. If you are truly interested what it was like to be a soldier in Iraq, email me. Not trying to put you down in anyway, but I have chosen you to answer questions to because I read your profile and your Q&A's. You seemed very interested on this topic and political questions. E-mail me and I will give you rank and what I did in the Army. I have a sight that you can look at with my help to verify who I am.

Answer 3

Don't listen to these other guys who think Blair & Bush are not the same as Mr. Hussein. They are just dangerous, mindless pawns who've been thoroughly brainwashed with mainstream propaganda.

Whether you kill people with bombs or chemical weapons, the end result is the same = a lot of dead people. Dropping 2 atomic bombs on civilian populations and killing 100,000s of people? Vietnam My Lai massacres, carpet bombing, and Agent Orange???? No, none of these are war crimes because we're the "good" ole, goddamn USA. Those were, at worst, "mistakes", just like Iraq was a "mistake". This is because superpowers & winners can reframe & rewrite world history to make themselves out to be the "Good Guys" while their opponents are always inevitably the "Bad Guys". No superpower in the history of the world EVER saw itself as an "Evil Empire". Double standards do not apply.

Our current world is based on the principles of Survival of the Fittest, and Might Makes Right... NOT fairness, social justice, or peace.

When Mr. Hussein was gassing his populace, we stood silently by and Mr. Reagan + Mr. Bush Sr. kept tacitly supporting his regime. But when we decided we wanted to invade the country & take it over 10 years later, we changed our minds. We wanted him dead, so we used his past crimes to judge him. How morally convenient.

The US has been engaged in perpetual war for the past 60+ years since WW2, and has been involved in over 30 military "interventions", most of them "illegal" & against world opinion. With over 7,000 nuclear weapons still active, and over 700 overseas military bases in 130 countries worldwide, the US doesn't give a damn about the world or the UN or anything else. It doesn't care about its own crimes against humanity because it is currently the world's only Policeman, and quite literally, Above the Law.

As long as the US maintains worldwide military hegemony, no US leaders (or its allies) will ever be tried for crimes against humanity.

Answer 4

Blair and Bush chemically gassed a bunch of Kurds? Where'd you hear that, from Alex Jones?

Answer 5

they are wanted in Germany, to bad the Germans don't hang people.

Answer 6

they will should they go to Iraq.

Answer 7

Probably you.

Answer 8

they will be next.