Is it possible to calculate this?
Sorry but news items in the UK make it sound like a bad holiday experience, when in reallity yes we removed a dictator but messed up a country and added to international terrorist problems
2007-12-16 06:49:18 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
kini: I am in no way having a go at the British soldiers but am wondering why the British media make so much out of the brave lads and lasses who gave their lives for it!
2007-12-16 07:34:51 · update #1
don't be ridiculous, hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis were killed by Saddam and his family, the soldiers there are heroes and should be remembered as such.
2007-12-16 07:04:31 · answer #1 · answered by kini 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Civilians were dying in Iraq before the US got there. Why are people only concerned about Iraqi civilians being killed now that the US is there? Apparently it was perfectly fine when Saddam killed Iraqi people and apparently it seems that a lot people think that should have continued. I went to Iraq. Not because of WMDs, but because if nothing else, the place needs to be fixed. Even if Bush was arrested for "war crimes" tomorrow, that does not change the past and does not change what needs to be in Iraq today. But apparently people seem to think we should just pull out and all the killing will magically stop. So don't try to tell people why we volunteer to go to Iraq, you don't know and you don't speak for us.
2016-05-24 05:39:54 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People forget that Saddam Hussein hated Al Quada because their training camps and millita were a threat to him.
He killed and arrested more terrorists than we have and he had them totally surpressed.
As soon as we removed him, they were released from their bondage, took over and the ramifications of this will be felt by the West for many years to come.
2007-12-16 07:39:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do not know, with a certainty, but I would be willing 2 hazard a guess that more have died in this than under saddam, I am an american, but happen 2 be 1 of the ever growing contingent of americans who want an end of bush!!
Timothy
:o)
2007-12-16 07:15:06 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No one bought Blair's con about unseating a brutal dictator. A war was always going to kill lots more people and make the UK a terrorist target.
2007-12-16 07:03:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It looks like 40 - 15 to the west with the west to serve.
The saddest part in this is we have now created an Islamic fundamentalist state, and have given it an inbiult hatred of the west.
In a couple of years time we will be asking why are they attacking us. Western menories seem much shorter than the middle easteners..!!
2007-12-16 07:15:43 · answer #6 · answered by Terry M 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
More Iraqi civillians have been killed during the war and Britain and the US occupation of Iraq than under Saddam's Hussein's rule
2007-12-16 06:54:03 · answer #7 · answered by Lady Claire - Hates Bigotry 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There was no real reason to go to war with saddam, so the losses as sad as they were are entirely the fault of goverment!
2007-12-16 06:56:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Iraq was NEVER a threat, we fell for Neo Con propaganda and made Britain a target for terrorists, as along as we worship the Neo Cons, we will be fooled into more illegal wars
2007-12-16 07:09:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
I think you're right, as usual but don't worry about it -you'll have nightmares again
2007-12-16 10:04:03 · answer #10 · answered by nanny chris w 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋