Before the Iraq war started were there daily suicide bombings, chaos and terror?

Question

or was it pretty much peaceful? because saddam had a tight grip on the people......

or was there already a good amount of violence before the war in iraq?

Answer 1

Did you happen to see the mass graves uncovered with blindfolded bullet-ridden bodies of men, women and children in the hundreds of thousands?
Saddam and his thugs had a monopoly on violence...but it was brutal.

Some folks don't like my answer because it goes against the agenda they are preaching.

http://www.usaid.gov/iraq/legacyofterror.html
http://www.cpa-iraq.org/human_rights/Mass_Graves.htm

Answer 2

If your talking about Iraq,no not as much as there is now because like you said Saddam,had a tight rein on his country and everything and everyone in that country,but as a whole the Middle East,has always had suicide bombings I mean all you have to do is go back to the 80's of which I was in the U.S.Navy,at the time and stationed aboard the U.S.S.Nimitz CVN-68 in Middle East and Lebanon,was the hot spot with bombings which I remember being in that region of the world so this is not new Iraq,just bought in more to the forefront than
ever before.

Answer 3

War has been fairly constant for the past hundred years.
With the advent of the gun you no longer had to be strong or fast to win a fight just pull a trigger and people die. War has shifted location but always some where.

When generations loose many parents before the children are grown then the kids go for a lower level of working out problems. They resort to might makes right. rather than Might for right.

Practice Might for Right and you will be OK.

You can make great progress by turning off the TV.
I have missed the past three wars and spent the time writing on how the universe works. Much more rewarding

Answer 4

It was pretty calm because of Saddam's grip on the country. He may have been an ******e but it was pretty peaceful.

The terrorists now operating in Iraq either became so as a direct result of us being there or crossed the border into Iraq to fight us.

Bush is trying to tell us that those terrorists are the reason we are there but the truth is that they were not there until after we invaded. What is sad is how many people believe him. Just like a lot of people believe that Saddam and Iraq were involved in 9/11 when they had nothing to do with it. It is amazing how many people's beliefs are politically motivated. And they have no shame lying to themselves. Sad.

Answer 5

You are right, there was nothing like that, because Saddam killed his own people and the people in Iraq didn't do anything and say anything. You can call this peaceful....
Now is a war and everybody fighting each other.

Answer 6

When I was in Bahrain there were no attacks on Westerners (back then, 9 years ago, it was a British vacation spot) But there were several attacks on each other.

Oh yeah, by the way... There was a day when I was a whole week in Bahrain when we were told not to wear red or any color close to being red because anyone wearing this color was considered as volunteering to be have themselves killed for their god. Again, this was 10 years ago and was a ritual that had been taking place much much longer than that. I'm sorry that I don't remember what it was called, but they'd take people right off the streets and kill them because of the color they were wearing. That is not peace in my book!

Yes there were suicide, and homicidal bombing daily before this war.

PS-
Just because CNN was not reporting the Iraqi death toll before the US was there does NOT mean it was peaceful! It was so FAR from peaceful!

How do I know this? Experience, I spent several months in Bahrain in 1998 and several months in Saudi Arabia in 1999.

Also, my old bosses husband is Iraqi. He was given up for adoption to a couple in the US when he was younger. He would go visit his father yearly once he was an adult. Every year my boss applied to go with him, but the Embassy told her every year it was too dangerous for her to go.

His sister was allowed to come visit ONCE, she talked very little because of the instilled fear her country put upon her. What she did say is that in her country she was not allowed to do most of the things we take for granteed in our country (like a woman wearing pants or washing windows.) She said she was never asked her opinion in her own country, and that she did have a boyfriend but if her father were to find out, she feared that too, she was in her mid 20's. She said her father planned to arrange her marriage and she was just hoping he would not find anyone for her.

Peaceful was not in her vocabulary, her country was not peaceful then (11 years ago,) it would not be peaceful now even if the US was not there.

Answer 7

Saddam kept the people scared and by that there was peace. If you did the wrong thing you were dead.
Let's remember that the Arabs have for thousands of years, fought each other and they fight to the death as well as any other man that threatened their way of life.

Peace will not come until a new warlord is found and takes control.
The government set in place by the US will all be shot once the US leaves, the Police, troops will all flee again. Let's hope that the New Saddam is in place soon.

Bring home the TROOPS

Answer 8

You're exactly right. All this internecine warfare was NOT happening. Saddam was a cruel dictator, (like many other in the world) but he kept peace and order and the Iraqis were much better off. They had power and water and relative stability. Saddam kept his prisons full and executed many people, but there was no streetfighting or chaos like there is now. Everything was locked down tight.

The sad fact is, we did not have to kill 450,000 Iraqis to remove him from power. Our hare-brained military solution was deployed for idiotic reasons. More *diplomacy* was needed. But instead, the 'easy' path of military force was chosen and it has become a disaster for all involved.

Invasion has produced exactly the opposite effect of what was desired: it has made the world less safe, Iraq is now a terrorist training ground. There no excuse for the incompetence displayed by the U.S. in bungling this entire episode. Finding no WMDs when we *swore* they were there, etc.

There are catastrophic effects that arise from launching a war without proof. Our international reputation is in the toilet. It will hurt us for a long time.

Answer 9

It was peaceful if you weren't the one hanging on a meat hook getting your feet roasted with a blowtorch.

It was peaceful if you weren't the one hearing the car speed away after your husband answered a knock on the door late at night...never to be seen again.

It was peaceful if you weren't a Kurd watching your children die after being nerve gassed so the Great Leader could re-open his uranium mines in the northern region.

It was peaceful if you weren't a neighboring country that he invaded during his reign.

It was peaceful as long as you didn't have anything he or his supporters wanted.

Peaceful like the grave.

Answer 10

We overlook the rise of the Amazon women with self prides of self images of standing idol of queen sheba with the ghost
and the weakling Amazon men with self discrimination as people of different races of self racism in making a mess world-wide that set off the trigger of "It's a final countdown" .
Luke 21.8-9
The blunders and slip-ups with human errors with idol worshiping the dead Mummy of failures and horrors of the past from the graveyards of different ancestor's custom with all the dead Mummies risen and creeping out from the graveyards in making a mess out there.with the betrayal of Judas
Luke 9.25
Until poor old Saddam had to sacrifice himself to save the women and children from further destruction of human errors for the good of mankind.