Do you apologize to the Iraqi people on behalf of America?

Question

Do you apologize for Ambassador April Glaspie, who told Saddam "we have no views on your Arab-Arab conflicts", just before he invaded Kuwait?

Do you apologize for killing 205,000 Iraqis in the Gulf War?

Do you apologize for forcing Iraq to give up its WMD, when Israel was allowed to keep them?

Do you apologize for the million Iraqis who were killed by sanctions that the U.S. refused to lift, even AFTER Iraq destroyed its WMD?

Do you apologize for Madeline Albright, who said "we think it's worth it" when asked if it was right that half a million Iraqi children should have been killed by sanctions?

Do you apologize for George W. Bush, who obstructed the work of the weapons inspectors and then kicked them out of Iraq in 2003, so he could start his "shock and awe" terrorism?

Do you apologize for the 655,000 Iraqis who have died from violence since Bush started his war?

No apology will ever bring back the victims. But perhaps, it will stop this kind of genocide from happening again.

Answer 1

If I meet a person from Iraq online, Yes I do apologize for the destruction and chaos the US government has brought to their country.

Answer 2

This is bull!

The Gulf War was Saddam's fault, not ours.

Hussein killed way more Iraqis than our troops have. And we only killed the Iraqi army members. It's the terrorists who kill the civilians. Our army is there to protect them. Now there are people in the army who have harmed innocent Iraqi citizens, but that is the exception, not the rule. If we leave Iraq now, terrorists will just take over and kill more Iraqis. If we want to stop Iraqis from dying, we have to attack the terrorist's source of weapons - Iran. Iran has been defying the world for quite a while, we have to put Iran back to it's place.

Answer 3

"I will never blame America. I don't care what the facts are" George HW Bush

"Throughout the twentieth century and into the beginning of the twenty-first, the United States repeatedly used its military power, and that of its clandestine services, to overthrow governments that refused to protect American interests. Each time, it cloaked its intervention in the rhetoric of national security and liberation. In most cases, however, it acted mainly for economic reasons-specifically to establish, promote and defend the right of Americans to do business around the world without interference."
Stephen Kinzer
"Our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to."
William Blum
" With unfailing consistancy, U.S. intervention has been on the side of the rich and powerful of various nations at the expense of the poor and needy. Rather than strengthening democracies, U.S. leaders have overthrown numerous democratically elected governments or other populist regimes in dozens of countries ... whenever these nations give evidence of putting the interests of their people ahead of the interests of multinational corporate interests."
Michael Parenti
and finally...
" If an American is concerned only about his nation, he will not be concerned about the peoples of Asia, Africa, or South America. Is this not why nations engage in the madness of war without the slightest sense of penitence? Is this not why the murder of a citizen of your own nation is a crime, but the murder of citizens of another nation in war is an act of heroic virtue? "
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Answer 4

I don't know about an apology but I think we could just go home and mind our own business

No Foriegn Alliances
No Foriegn Aid
No Foriegn Wars
No Deficit Spending

Answer 5

Apologies can not prevent future genocide. When in conflict with yourself...when you have questions such as the one you posited, respond with intellectual integrity and not emotional jargon.

Answer 6

Maybe the Iraqi people need to apologize to each other,
they kill more of their own than anyone else. Whether sunni,
shiite or Kurd...they are Iraqis and they take precious Iraqi
lives by the dozens every day....They oppress their women
and treat them as if they are no more than bits of real
estate.......

So if any apology is in order..it's Iraqi to Iraqi.

Answer 7

You forgot to realize that Americans are so arrogant THEY DO NOT APOLOGIZE. They are too busy waking up everyday working over time shifts to make money to commit more sins. They are busy worshiping the Dollar. The ONLY TIME an American realizes that others exists is when he/she feels pain. When their "loved" ones are hurt or killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, and etc. That is when you see an American in church, synagogue or mosque remembering GOD finally.

Answer 8

did the Germans apologize in WWII for the deaths of millions. . did the Japanese apologize for Manchuria, pearl harbor, invasion of many country's. Stalin killed millions, his best generals an poor people. did you apologize for waking up this morning and giving us this trash. your trying to sound so intelligent for the sake of your image.

Answer 9

do you apologize for being so ignorant to the facts behind everything you just stated.

Answer 10

Well, let's see, I didn't do any of that, so I'm not going to apologize.