Your Opinion on the Situation in Iraq?

Question

Back in 1991, it seemed that most of the world was quite adamant about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.
It seemed the whole world was really quite bothered by this fellow who tossed live human beings into wood-chippers, cut off toungues and hands. This man who gassed people and tossed them into mass graves.
People really soaked up the stories told by people who had escaped Iraq after their families had been raped and tortured and killed.
His offspring are known to have wiled away the hours raping and killing. (At least one is said to have enjoyed torturing live animals as well.)

What changed in the world?
Why do mass graves in Africa mean something and mass graves in Iraq no longer matter?
Why is it that only WMD matter's in Iraq?
What exactly is it that drives you to hatred of George W. Bush?
Please elaborate.

Renegade: I really must admit, I'm at a loss as to how the world got along without Smedley Butler.

Answer 1

Well, I'm glad the torturing of live animals has stopped .....

I've lost you I'm afraid. Are for or against the war in Iraq?

Answer 2

George Jr is trying to finish what his father before him did not. And George Bush Jr is so egostical its almost sickening to listen to him talk! Mass destruction.. never existed except in his own head! And sadly we are over there now still fighting a war for another country! WHY? Because we can! And I think when history looks back on this period, they will say that WE being they're was a BIG mistake from the standpoint of lifes lost, and money too!

Answer 3

People changed the world. Mass graves in Iraq do mean something. Iraq has no WMD. George Bush is a big fat liar.

Answer 4

The Gulf War was never about Saddam's crimes against humanity. Saddam was CIA. We put Saddam in power. He was just another ruthless, right-wing dictator -- much like Pinochet, the Shaw of Iran, Suharto, etc. -- that the U.S. has propped up in power for imperialist purposes. Saddam's real crime was that he used a percentage of the oil revenues to provide for some public benefits. In fact, Iraqis had the highest standard of living in the region prior to the Gulf War.

But capitalism is not about people having a high standard of living, rather it is about riches for the capitlists and as Lenin wrote, "the highest form of capitalism is imperialism." Saddam had become a problem. The nations in the Middle East were targed for U.S. imperialism and this meant demonizing Saddam in addition to instigating a crisis at home (9-11) as a pretext for war in Afghanistan (also refusing key access for a future gas pipeline) that would then be used to expand imperialist war into the entire region. Bush is nothing but a gangster, a criminal, a mass murderer. He kills for wealth -- not just for himself, but for an entire layer of U.S. wealthy-elites.

War is ALWAYS an economic event, as Major General Smedley Butler explains in this excerpt from War is a Racket:

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War is a Racket
By Smedley Butler

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the many.

I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.

I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.

There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its "finger men" to point out enemies, its "muscle men" to destroy enemies, its "brain men" to plan war preparations, and a "Big Boss" Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.

It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.

I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.

Answer 5

9/11

Answer 6

It's a fiasco. You should never go to war unless you are attacked first or it's agreed upon by the UN. George Bush is a mass murderer.

Answer 7

WMD was information put out by hussein to keep Iran from attacking. So to say that Bush lied about it is to show one's ignorance of the facts or to show one's blind following of the party line. I think we shouldn't have worried about a coalition force and just gone in and done what was needed to stop hussein and his sympathizers from genocide and other abominations. I still support President Bush and think he made the correct moral choice. Unfortunately America continues to lose its moral uprightness because (imo) we've lost our moral compass.

Answer 8

Iraq? I think we did the right thing, but I think we really need to spend another 10-20 years there in order to firmly implant democracy.

As for Saddam, he tried to bluff while sitting at the WMD poker table. Unfortunately for him he tried to bluff the wrong country and ended up with both his country and his neck broken.

As for the left's hatred they hate him for the same reason the right hated Clinton. They think he's heading in the wrong direction but they can't bring him down. They can't get any traction, it cost them huge points with their base, and it's driving them nuts.

Answer 9

Changing the economy in U.S., costing the lives of young soliders to defend the innocent people.

Answer 10

Before Bush got there it was propaganda. It may have happened or not. We'll never know. When he got there it was real and there was no reason for it but greed. Dollars for American lives.