If people are so up in arms about the US invading iraq and Iraqi civilian causalties?

Question

Should we have just stuck with the sanctions like oil for food , and not have gone to war?
I mean nearly 500,000 children did die of starvation without US forces attacking. That seemed to really make the people stand up against saddam right?

In 1996 then-UN Ambassador Madeleine Albright was asked by 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl, in reference to years of U.S.-led economic sanctions against Iraq, “We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that is more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?”

To which Ambassador Albright responded, “I think that is a very hard choice, but the price, we think, the price is worth it.”

I doubt that saddam could have been removed without a single US force on the ground. Why would anyone with his kind of power and has had it for over 30 years just give it up?

That question was asked in 1996
1996 nearly 500,000 people died
those sanctions went on for another 7 years so total about 1.25million people died of starvation and lack of medical treatment while millions were mal nourished

Answer 1

So we're now basing our decision to invade Iraq on something someone had allegedly "heard" in 1996? You must be entirely desperate to justify this war, because that is just not a valid reason to go to war EVER. That was ONE man's opinion based on something he'd "heard," not something based on reliable intelligence or his own first hand account.
If that many children have died, where are the bodies? According to the CDC, almost 40,000 children ages 0-14 die per year in the US. (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr54/nvsr54_19.pdf) and 2,398,343 Americans total die every year. Now admittedly, some of those are victims of cancer, AIDS, heart disease, etc., but when you have a government like ours that allows Companies to ditch all responsibility and sell products that "may cause cancer," or they sell tobacco products by misleading the public of the effect they'll really have on their health, or they sell us food loaded with fat, antibiotics, steroids, and growth hormones. The government might as well be killing us, because they sure aren't doing much to make us any safer!
And to date, there have been 3,739 deaths of American Soldiers in Iraq and the minimum number of deaths for Iraqi civilians (innocent men, women and children) is 71,017. When combined and divided by the four and a half years we've been in Iraq, it creates an average of 16,612 deaths per year.

Answer 2

For what reason do you think that Bush invaded Iraq? Why would anyone invade a nation that was no threat, except to itself, had no "WMD", and had no connection to terrorism or Al Quada? People need to wake up and see with hindsight the devil leading them to war, and forcing them to stay in a lost cause.

Your president has begun a process that will not end for another 7 years, but will in fact broaden and be fought in locations throughout the Middle East, including Israel and Armageddon.

Answer 3

Karl is clueless....
Yes, the Yahoo! Libs would have us stick with the Status quo. A Endless no fly zone operation with them shooting at us. Saddam still stealling Oil for food money. His Sons stil raping and killing. Meanwhile Chemical Ali would be working on WMD'S still with no UN inspectors. Saddam had a chance to blink. He thought Bush was bluffing. Bush had ACEs & 8's... Nuff Said.

Answer 4

You're saying the US invaded Iraq to help starving children! That's a new one...

Oil for Food provided adequate nutrition to Iraqis, and more children are malnourished now than before the US invasion.

Your quote is a misquote.

Answer 5

Actually, when you put it like that. I wish we hadn't invaded, eventually all but a handful of them would be dead, and a single bunker buster could have finished off the rest.

Answer 6

If you check it out,most civilian casualties are caused by the insurgents and terrorists bombs,they aim for civilians.
Hell,they used mortars on people lining up to vote.

The Dems like to point out that Iraq is a Civil War.
Bill Clinton sent our troops to civil wars in,
Somalia
Haiti
Bosnia
East Timor
Now,they ( Dems ) WANT to send troops to DARFUR,another civil war.

Answer 7

People are still dying. This war is making the sanctions look like a good thing compared to what is going on now.

This war has killed 655,000 people when last recorded but now may be approaching a million, not to mention millions of people who have had to leave their homes.

Answer 8

That 500k figure is a little steep. Either way, I'm not up in arms in either instance.

Answer 9

Saddam could have been removed without putting a single USA boot on the ground in Iraq.

This is an oil and land grab, plain and simple.

Answer 10

The left doesn't like it when you bring up things they have said in the past. Shame on you.