Is'nt killing your own marines in a war Based on lies the same as Saddam gassing his own people?

Question

I think, Bush has to be put on trial just as saddam for killing his own citizens, more then 3000. marines killed already.

Answer 1

Well, the 3000 troops killed so far (and many thousands more maimed) are volunteer soldiers, this is true. But the 60 thousand iraqi civilians killed in our invasion and subsequent occupation did nothing to volunteer for their martyrdom for our corporate profit.

Answer 2

There's problems with this question on several different levels.
First, I seriously question the premise of your question. Which lies are you talking about? WMD's? Why did Israeli, British, and other intelligence agency say WMD's were there and/or being pursued by Saddam? Were they lying too? Also check this:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePb6H-j51xE

Next, as somebody already stated, the military is 100% volunteer. People don't join the military and expect to be gauranteed safety. They know there's a chance they could be seriously hurt or killed in combat.

Third, Bush didn't send them to Iraq for the purpose of dying; he sent them (with the blessing of Congress, originally) to overthrow Saddam and plant a free society in the Middle East. WMD's, which apparently many people thought was legitimate, was just the legal reason to go in.
At any rate, I certain Bush would have preferred that not one American soldier lost his/her life. I don't think you could say the same about Saddam and the people he gassed ("Well, let's gas them, but I sure hope none of them die from the poison gas" - from the book of things Saddam never said).

Fourth, "more than 3000 marines killed already"? Putting aside all politics and whether or not one thinks this war is worth fighting, as wars go, this is a very low casualty rate. For a force of over 130 thousand, a loss of 3300 or so over a for year period is one of the lowest casualty rates in US history, if not the lowest. The US population is dying at a higher rate than the soldiers in Iraq (US military in Iraq = about 6.2 deaths per 1000 soldiers annually, US population = 8.25 deaths per 1000 citizens annually)

Answer 3

No, no longer lies yet undesirable intelligence. the reason we went there replaced into partly according to this intelligence and occasion based on the reality the Saddam violated endless treaties and U.N. resolutions that he himself agreed to following Iraq I. The warfare is merely and necessary. i might pick to combat this warfare on Muslim soil quite of yank soil. it incredibly is a tricky actuality to hold close, yet many in life are. while 2 all of us is strolling in opposite guidelines and meet head to head who has the right to maintain strolling that line and who has to head out of ways? My purely end to that query so some distance is might makes correct, and that's for distinctive motives and for yet another communicate.

Answer 4

You are making an invalid comparison. President Bush has killed zero marines. Many have died in combat, but Bush has not ordered them to be killed or personally killed them. Saddam Hussein, on the other hand, gave the direct order to gas his own people, the Kurds. That is where the difference lies my friend.

Answer 5

YOU IDIOT THEY ACTUALLY STARTED THIS WAR. THEY NEVER HEADED OUR WARNINGS FROM OUR LAST TREATY AND THEY ATTACKED OUR PLANES AND SHIPS BEFORE THIS WAR EVER STARTED .PLUS WE HAVE HAD HARDLY ANY CASUALTIES IN TERMS OF WAR. THIS WAR IS ONE OF THIS COUNTRY'S WARS THAT HAVE HAD FEW CASUALTIES. THE MEDIA JUST BLOWS THINGS OUT OF PROPORTION. IN FACT WE HAVEN'T LOST A SINGLE BATTLE IN IRAQ AT ALL. BUT THE MEDIA WONT SAY THAT BECAUSE BAD NEWS SELLS. ALSO WE HAVE REDUCED THE NUMBER OF GUNFIGHTS SO MUCH THAT MOST FOOTAGE U SEE ON TV ABOUT THE WAR THAT SHOWS THE US FIGHING IS A COUPLE YEARS OLD. IN FACT ALL THE ENEMY DOES IS ROLL CARS DOWN A STREET AND BLOW THEM UP. THANKFULLY THOUGH WE HAVE REDUCED THE NUMBERS OF CAR BOMBS TO BY ALOT.

Answer 6

Touche!

Answer 7

Bush's alleged lie, along with some verifiable and valid proof would go a long way in adding some credibility to your question - otherwise, it comes off as the same old Bush bashing rhetoric so common on this forum.
Try and be a little more original in the future.

Answer 8

"ballsonthewall" is incorrect. The marines choose to defend the constitution of the United States. What does the war in Iraq have to do with that.?

Answer 9

Is this in spite of the genocide he is promoting with his backing of the Shiite government? Or is it inclusive? I would vote yes if it's inclusive.

Answer 10

What's worse is Bush knows it's bogus, and he knows the majority of americans know it - and yet the clown keeps going, and the sicko cons defend it. It's pure perversion.