Isn't it amazing what Bush & Cheney can do to a perfectly, peaceful, soveriegn nation?

Question

When Saddam was there Iraq was simply paradise compared to what it is now....agree?

Answer 1

True. At least under Saddam you had order. And you knew what not to say or do to avoid being considered a political enemy and subject to Saddam's brutality.

War on the other hand, is constant and unpredictable punishment, brutality, and murder no matter who you are--friend or foe, young or old. You may have been oppressed, but at least you weren't being blown up; having your skin melt off with white phosphorus; having your police stations, water supply, hospitals, and electricity cut off or blown up; having a foreign invader who's claiming to free you, round you up en masse into a torture chamber to be sodomized, raped, beaten, and killed (as a fraternity prank--hey at least it's not Saddam doing it!); going from a relatively normal, predictable live under an oppressive regime to having restrictive Nazi curfews, etc, etc.......

Answer 2

Well...I wouldn't exactly call it Paradise. He used the Oil for Food money to build palaces and blamed the resulting starvation on the US. The cops were brutal, anybody he decided was annoying was killed along their entire family, or village and he ran a war of extermination against the Kurds.

But, the electricity and water usually worked. There weren't suicide bombings and car bombs nearly every day or large scale street shootouts. And religious minorities weren't getting ultimatums to convert or die.

I doubt that anyone in Iraq thinks of the Sadam Regime as Paradise Lost. But I'm pretty sure a lot of Iraqis look back on it as "The Good Old Days."

Answer 3

Saddam was a paradise? Tell that to the family of those who are in the mass graves. Tell that to the people who were raped, beaten, tortured. Tell that to all the people that suffered under Saddam.

Now the Iraqis have control of their own destiny. Thanks to Bush and Cheney. Real evil isnt it?

Answer 4

There are a few people who might not describe the pre-war Iraqi people as 'peaceful'. Like the thousands of Kurds that were killed or horribly deformed by chemical and biological attacks that Saddam unleashed on them. The Iranian civilians he gassed during a war that killed hundreds of thousands might have a thing or two to say about it.

Now had you asked this question, it might have been more accurate: "Isn't it amazing what Saddam can do to a perfectly peaceful, sovereign nation?"

Kuwait would have had a great answer for that one.

Answer 5

oh god no. the kurds didnt think so...they were in the process of being wiped from the face of the earth by saddam. now theyre alive...ask them. by the way isnt it amazing what clinton did to a perfectly peaceful, soverign nation....like the us...

- The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance
- Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates*
- Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation
- Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify
- Most number of witnesses to die suddenly
- First president sued for sexual harassment.
- First president accused of rape.
- First first lady to come under criminal investigation
- Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case
- First president to establish a legal defense fund.
- First president to be held in contempt of court
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad
- First president disbarred from the US Supreme Court and a state court
i think you get my point...check your facts and stop wasting peoples time here until you do.

Answer 6

it's a moral disgrace. yes under the strongman iraq was more or less peaceful. you'll probably get some comments on atrocities to kurds, you know. what people fail to remember was the flip side. kurds were in a war of independence in iraq. they weren't as pleasent as some may think. indeed they have a long history of violence. not excusing saddams actions by the way. i'm just sayin'... .

Answer 7

Only if you agreed with Saddam. Otherwise you were raped, tortured or died.

Some peace you want for them.

Oh, they gave up their sovereignty when they attacked Kuwait;
when they paid suicide bombers on public television to attack Israeli civilians (Saddam himself offered money for it personally on T.V.);
when they sent an assassin to kill one of our Presidents (who CARES whether it was President Bush's father. IT WAS ONE OF OUR PRESIDENTS!);
when they repeatedly attacked us over the no fly zone for a full decade during the cease-fire they agreed to and repeatedly broke.

"perfectly, peaceful, sovereign nation..."

What a bald-faced lie!

Answer 8

Sure, except for the mass genocide of countless kurds that he killed with nerve gas or the millions of gallons of crude oil he dumped into the sea when he retreated from a neighboring country which caused the largest ecological desaster ever.

Source: Guiness book of world records

Answer 9

Paradise? You are crazy!

Answer 10

Saddam should have been 'taken out' - but, not through war.
You know... anything for oil and more money!!