Re: Burglar invades a house, destroys it, tells the owners to pay for property damage
The Invaders(neocons) must pay for all the damages caused to Irak since the invasion and fix everything they messed up with THEIR OWN money.
You know, I was against going to war. My reason for not going to war was that Iraq was basically a de-clawed cat. Sadam just sat their saber rattling, and in time the Iranians would have taken care of him anyway. But the war came....
Now here we are. In the middle of an insurgency, with mostly foreign actors trying to stir up a civil war. It sucks...
What I find most intriguing is that the Muslim, world in particular, and Europe, in general, would rather see the US get a bloody nose in Iraq than see Iraq become a stable democracy, or simply stable. Mind you, the American bloody nose in Iraq is mostly Iraqi blood.
At the same time, the Kurds in the North love what the Americans were able to do for them. Most Shias, in a recent PEW poll, would rather be without Sadam.
No doubt this was a war of choice, but Americans don't bear all the responsibility. Americans are not setting off IEDs, car bombings, suicide bombs, blowing up pipes, and in the process killing thousands of civilians. I bet, if the world showed half the disgust it shows toward the US at the jihadis, the problem would vanish.
Just to put this in prespective, there was no clamor when Sadam was killing his own people in gas attacks. No sound when Shia holy sites were off limits. Not a word when billions in Iraqi oil was being siphoned off by the regime. The Islamic world rejoiced when Sadam's army rolled into Kuwait, forget what the Kuwaitis thought. No protests when Sadam used chemicals weapons against Iran.
But now, the vile Americans.....well.....lets make sure thr Iraqi people pay this time.
Musharraf hit the nail right on the head, when in an interview he said: We were against going to war in Iraq, but it happened. Now the Iraqi people are suffering, something has to be done.
Rahul, more than capitalism it is ideology at play in Iraq. Haliburton, no matter how big, did not take the US to war.
Now, here is an interesting little tid-bit to ponder: Ask yourself this, why are Russia and China unwilling to do anything about Darfur? Why do they threaten veto at the UN? Why did Russia not want action in Kosovo? Why were Germans against action in Bosnia? Why is France so ready to act in the Ivory Coast, but no in Sudan?
The world hates Uncle Sam, but without US leadership nothing happens. Yes the US got a bloody nose in Somalia, in return there are Somalis starving to death and pirates on the seas. Where were all these bleeding hearts when the Kosovars were being killed, or Bosnians being killed. No other country, other than the US, take up the issue of Chechnya with Russia or Xianjiang with China.
When the US talks about Chinese human rights violations, they are speaking of the Uighurs.
The war in Iraq sucks, but most of the detractors don't give a hoot about Iraqis...they just want to see the sole super power humbled.