What would the Democrat do?

Question

Please only answer if you are a Democrat

Since it is sooooo evident that the war in Iraq is such a big mistake, what do you propose the U.S. do when we are made aware of atrocities such as Saddam committed?
Are his atrocities not to be compared to Hitler's?
I understand that the magnitude is different, but he has killed millions as Hitler did, and invaded countries in an attempt to take it over.
Please clarify the proper action to take if any.
Oh, and answer the question with an ANSWER...not a statement of what the Republicans did wrong or with another question...that would be self defeating.

For those who actually answered thank you!
The reason I asked for just Dems is to get their answer to this issue as they state that the war is obviously wrong
For those of you who think comparing Hitler to Saddam is wrong... tell me why? He killed millions and attempted to take countries over by force! And to the No weapons of mass distruction! Come on... I do agree that there are other areas of intrest that must be addressed, but the Dems got the same information regarding Suddam as a threat... and it didn't come from George W's desk... it came from our military!!! Dems reviewed it as the Reps did and most came to the same conclusiton. Dems make it seem like George W fabricated the informaiton... GET A CLUE!!

More finger pointing and questions... anyone out there have an answer?
What would you do?

For those who believe that we are there for the OIL... why is Iraq having China and Iran set up their oil fields? And How much oil have we gotten from Iraq since the war?

Answer 1

Im not sure the Democrats CAN answer with an answer. All they know how to do is state what the Republicans did wrong, which by the way is nothing.

Answer 2

First off there are alot of Republicans that don't agree with this war so I think it's a bit childish to point the finger only at Dems.. but whatever.. The war in Iraq has never been about freeing the people of Iraq from this horrible dictator... As I recall after 9-11 Bushy Boy stood up and said he would go anywhere in the world to find Bin Laden- we started off right.. we went to Afghanistan- then we took a new turn and went to Bin Laden's enemy... fancy that.. then he stood there and told Congress and the American people that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction... so we went to war- never found the weapons of mass destruction.. so then the war became about Freeing the Iraqi people and bring Democracy to Iraq- now it's about trying to get their new government to stand up and start running their country and trying to keep the citizens of Iraq from killing each other... - We went most of our military power into tracking down Saddam in some rabbit hole.. and still have no idea where Bin Laden is.. who was the whole reason behind this War on Terror - and then lets not forget about Bushy Boy's daddy.. I believe it was Saddam that tried to assassinate him back in like 93- I'm sure that had absolutely no reason for us going there- instead of staying the course and finding Bin Laden..

Answer 3

Well, I'm liberal.. But not necessarily a democrat.. But I'm sure I qualify to answer..

It's all about priorities.. If Iraq was the ONLY problem, yes we should've invaded.. Eventually.. But that is not the case.. Iraq was far far down the priority line.. Al Queda was #1, NK #2, Sudan #3, Genocide in Laos #3(in my mind), even the Saudi's, Liberia, Iran, Syria, Israel/Palestine, Somalia, etc etc.. All of these were more important than Iraq...

The answer is..... We should have never went.... Should have taken care of Al Queda first.. Kept Iraq under watch and sanctions.. They were basically powerless against us anyways.. If Sadaam went too far? Then action may have been necessary.. But we can't go to war with every nation who's leaders commit atrocities.. That would be suicide and the U.S. would fall...

Answer 4

First of all, we didn't go into Iraq to save the Iraqi's from their dictator. There are MANY evil dictators in this world, and we're not rushing in like some comic book hero to save those people, are we? We went in there because of money, and oil. Saddam has been dead for a year, hon.

We'd all like to think America is the worlds boy scout. Seriously...the people would LOVE to stop major jerks from being major jerks, but our government doesn't do anything unless their is a threat to this country...be it financial or territorial. We can't purge the world of dicators, or monarchies or communism. Even if we WANTED to...we don't have the right to tell other countries how to operate. Personally, I like America...where we have a lot of blessings and freedoms etc... I'm sure many other countries would love to have what we have...(and we do have our issues, make no mistake) but we can't force that on anyone.

By the way, I'm not a democrat...in fact I don't choose any particular party. I vote for who I think is best, BUT...jumping in solely to save a country from it's dictator with no benefit to ourselves, would actually be a very "Democrat-type" thing to do.

Answer 5

There are many evil dictators in the world. We can't take everyone, just the ones with the most oil.

Why don't we make up evidence in order to invade....oh wait, we already did that.

What about the mass murderer of 3 thousand Americans on September 11th, Osama bin Laden? Is he "marginalized" in your opinion?

If one of my loved ones were murdered and the local DA said he wasn't going after the killer because the killer had been "marginalized," I'd be standing on his desk the next day demanding his resignation. I wouldn't be satisfied if he brought me the Night Stalker.

The entire US military should have been sent down into Afghanistan to find bin Laden and bring him to the US in chains.

Answer 6

Sorry, I am not even a US citizen but let's be honest...

Most of what Saddam did was with the support of most western countries. We encouraged him to make the Iran-Iraq war last longer in order to create a lose-lose situation in which we were the only winner by retaliating against the islamic republic of Iran, selling weapons and putting these countries in debt forcing them to massibly dump oil on international markets.

Sorry, we should first before pointing the finger at other people stop being morons and acknowledge our responsability.

We western countries have hundreds of thousand of victims on our bill there... and which countries sold the chemicals used to launch chemical weapons attacks against Kurdish civilians? western countries.

Answer 7

Regardless of the past..Saddam had to go..he shut the U.S & United Kingdom out, when he nationalized Iraqi oil. Prior to that they owned a 3/4 share. He then turned to Russia & France..who opposed the U.S starting a war and gaining control of the vast resources..So now we are there..& can't just pull out & leave the country unguarded..It will be a long time before the U.S. leaves Iraq, regardless of which party runs the White House. I was in the Korean war..56 yrs ago..& we're still there.

Answer 8

It is NOT the responsibility of the US-nor do we hae a legal or moral right-to invade and conquer any country jsut because we don't happen to like their government or leader.

Diplomatic efforts, yes. Economic sanctions, yes. Not using force to "spread democracy"--that's a contradiction in terms. And it is as unAmerican as you can get. Bottom line--Americans--not jsut Democrats--don't believe that our power gives us the right to take away other countries independance or freedom--or todecide for them what they should and should not do. The comparision to Hitler is invalid--he attacked us, not the other way around.

Answer 9

If we are going to play police for every bad dictator out there we would be in wars with at least a dozen other countries right now.

The question you should ask yourself is why we cared so much about this particular bad guy? Could it be because his country sits on top of one of the biggest oil reserves in the world?

Answer 10

So, you would set the US up as the enforcer of just governance world over? You know that requires us to invade: China(Tibet), New Guinea,Rwanda, Burma, Sudan, Angola...

Why do you not complain against our governments inaction over those more recent events, when we jump to invade over a genocide in 1988.

Answer 11

I believe that Bush did the right thing, by bombing over there, but that he should had made a parking lot out of the country, & then sent the troops in, to clean up the after-mass. He stopped the bombing too soon, other-wise. War is War & innocent people always gets killed, but, as it is now, too many of our innocent soldiers are getting killed; the Bombing should had been kept going!!!! I am a Democrat, but I don't believe in turning the other cheek, allowing some pissy-*** little country try to buffalo our's.