1800 dead iraqis last month. Would they have been alive without Bush occupation?

Question

Would the over 100,000 dead innocent iraqi civilians be alive without the Bush invasion and occupation? Would the over 1 million iraqis who have fled their homes and country and become refugees have done so without the Bush invasion and occupation? The chaos, mayhem, carnage, and civil war that is going on in Iraq right now, the ethnic cleansing, the civil war, would all that be going on without Bush having invaded and occupied Iraq?

What was the reason, we invaded iraq again...I mean the reason back then, before Shock and awe was started.....oh yeah...something about Iraq having stockpiles of WMD, and dangerously near to having nuclear weapons capability right? Did we ever find them?....does it matter? no? why not? cause we are the USA, and can invade anyone we really want ..right?

And why are we in Iraq now?....to free the iraqi people and bring them freedom?

I wonder how the 1800 dead iraqis dead this month feel about that?

I wonder how all the untold dead and maimed feel about this great gift Bush decided of his own volition to bring to them that they did not ask for.

Answer 1

This is a sin if I ever have seen one.

Its a classic case of evil being done in the name of good, and a classic case of apathy by the american people.

A classic case of opening the gates of hell, and opening pandora's box.

Bush and his 4 horsemen have saddled up.

Answer 2

perhaps they would have been alive,but for how long?have you completely forgotten about the hundreds and hundreds of mass graves found in northern Iraq?have you not seen the pictures that reflect the damage done by mass murderer from a insane dictator?his name was Saddam btw..not George Bush.

as for you WMD question,we did find them.but your liberal mind and media seems to over look that fact.the majority of his weapons fled in to Syria mind you but do a little more research before you look like a fool again

Answer 3

Maybe with the occupation the numbers are lower. The people doing the bombing over there are the ones killing the civilians so its a toss up would they still be killing each other if we went there I hope so. maybe one of these days all the bad guys will kill all the bad guys. By the way freedom isn't free.

Answer 4

Those 1,800 would have been alive, at least most of them. But then, had Saddam Hussein still been alive then not those 1,800 but maybe a few others would have been dead instead... maybe not as many, maybe more... but under a dictator you know that a certain number will end up dead no matter what. Mao did it, Stalin did it, Tito did it, Hitler did it, Mussolini did it...killing people who oppose you is necessary for a dictator, so some would have died no matter what, but Bush made it possible for the sectarian violence to flare up and so what we see now is a direct result of Bush's Quixotic invasion.

Bush invaded Iraq because he hears voices in his head, voices from God, who told him to do it. He has said as much. Bush thinks he is The Savior of the World, and he is bound and determined to saves people who do not want to be saved, even if they have to die to do it.

Answer 5

Look, I understand where you are coming from: I'm angry to that this happened and that he lied. But we can't change the past; we have to stop blaming people and fix the mistake that he made (it's unfair, I know). The only way we can do that is to partition Iraq into three semi-autonomous states still controlled by a strong, but limited, government. The government that we are trying to institute now will NOT WORK because of the religious and sectarian differences between the Iraqis. Limited partition is the only solution!

Answer 6

Pres. Bush and our military had authorization from both the UN and congress to go and take out Saddam.(Clinton was the one who attacked another country( Bosnia) without ANY authorization) The UN said before we threw out Saddam,an average of over 4500 people(per month) in Iraq where killed in Saddam's torture and rape rooms.And do not forget Saddam gassing hundreds of thousands in his own country.It is not perfect over there,but we are making great progress and the Iraqi people are grateful.

Answer 7

Not if they were Iraqi Kurds or unfaithful to the party line.

Gassed, tortured and a bullet in the head, Democracy the Saddam way.

Answer 8

The Iraqi people and their Army ran and surrendered like cowards when we invaded, like the US was going to give them a cookie for being good.
The 100,000 dead were not innocent but guilty for not fighting the allies.
As for the children yes they were innocent because the adults gave them up for slaughter. They wanted freedom with out cost as you can see they are paying for their mistakes.
The Iraqi did not stand up!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 9

If Bush had listened to his Military advisers in the beginning, and had sent in enough troops to do the job correctly, there would be many less Iraqis, and US troops, dead.

Answer 10

If only we could ask these people.....

Al-Anfal

Halabja was neither an aberration nor a desperate act of a regime caught in a grinding, stalemated war. Instead, it was one event in a deliberate, large-scale campaign called Al-Anfal to kill and displace the predominately Kurdish inhabitants of northern Iraq. In an exhaustive study published in 1994, Human Rights Watch concluded that the 1988 Anfal campaign amounted to an extermination campaign against the Kurds of Iraq, resulting in the deaths of at least 50,000 and perhaps as many as 100,000 persons, many of them women and children.

Baghdad launched about 40 gas attacks against Iraqi Kurdish targets in 1987-88, with thousands killed. But many also perished through the regime's traditional methods: nighttime raids by troops who abducted men and boys who were later executed and dumped in mass graves. Other family members — women, children, the elderly — were arrested for arbitrary periods under conditions of extreme hardship, or forcibly removed from their homes and sent to barren resettlement camps. As Human Rights Watch details, Iraqi forces demolished entire villages — houses, schools, shops, mosques, farms, power stations — everything to ensure the destruction of entire communities.

Poison's Legacy


Halabja citizens had no protection against chemical attack in 1988. (Courtesy of the Kurdish Democratic Party)
The 1988 chemical attack on Halabja has left behind a cruel and persistent legacy.

Initially, the vicious brew of mustard gas — a blistering agent that affects the membranes of the nose, throat, and lungs — and such nerve agents as sarin, tabun, and VX, attacked the villagers' eyes and respiratory tracts. Some survived with scarred lungs; others were blinded, either temporarily or permanently.

But the chemicals also contaminated the food and water supply, and surveys conducted by the Halabja Medical Institute (HMI) have documented that the health effects on the population have been devastating and long lasting: from increased cancers, notably colon cancer, and respiratory diseases, to heightened levels of miscarriages and infertility among women. And perhaps most tragic: extraordinarily high levels of severe and life-threatening abnormalities among the children of Halabja. One of the first outside medical experts to study the impact of the poison gas attacks on Halabja was Christine Gosden, a British professor of medical genetics who first traveled to northern Iraq in 1998 and founded the Halabja Medical Institute. In a 1998 Washington Post article, she wrote:

What I found was far worse than anything I had suspected, devastating problems occurring 10 years after the attack. These chemicals seriously affected people's eyes and respiratory and neurological systems. Many became blind. Skin disorders which involve severe scarring are frequent, and many progress to skin cancer.

Working in conjunction with doctors in the area, I compared the frequency of these conditions such as infertility, congenital malformations and cancers (including skin, head, neck, respiratory system, gastrointestinal tract, breast, and childhood cancers) in those who were in Halabja at the time with an unexposed population from a city in the same region. We found the frequencies in Halabja are at least three to four times greater, even 10 years after the attack. An increasing number of children are dying each year of leukemias and lymphomas.

In a summary of its research on the attacks, HMI reached these conclusions:

While these weapons had many terrible direct effects such as immediate death, or skin and eye burns, Iraqi government documents indicate they were used deliberately for known long-term effects, including cancers, birth defects, neurological problems, and infertility. Inexpensive in terms of death per unit cost, there is evidence that these weapons were used in different combinations by Ba'ath forces attempting to discern their effectiveness as weapons of terror and war.

Answer 11

Hard to tell how they would feel...they might be glad to have given their lives for their country...how do you think they felt about living under Hussein and the boys?