“I supported the removal of Saddam, there is no fault in that.”
The above quote is a typical enough comment from some members on this board and across the US, less so in Europe.
The following is addressed to people with sentiment reflecting the above comment.
Discussion:
Why? Was he threatening you or your family or anyone you knew, why all the concern for Iraqi’s before the war? Saddam, what about other dictators and regimes the US is supporting all around the world today?
The war was about terrorism and WMD, it was hastily juggled to regime change some time on, okay saddam went, and then mass murder carried on. So everyone the US is killing and torturing is innocent? No WMD, regime changed, must be innocent right?
What about Algeria, where the US backed regime slaughtered 10 000 in the last decade? What about Uzbekistan what about Suharto why did the US support his terror for decades.
This is not about regime change and not about you being hoodwinked, I know most people are good people but all people need to be honest people.
How was saddam affecting you in US, you personally.
Why the sanctions for a decade, making millions of people suffer for what, how did that help you personally that you made the personal choice to support a war?
Why don’t you support a war in Algeria against your government’s interests to remove a brutal regime?
This war in Iraq was sold to you and the army, the Iraqis were demonized, all of them not just saddam. How dare they fight back when they are being occupied, they deserve to be treated like animals. The pictures of Abu Ghraib torture are testimony to this.
This future looks bleak.
For democracy: Overwhelming percentage of European population of those countries who went to war didn’t want to. See Italy, Spain and Hungary. Thos countries that supported their populations wishes (France Germany) were reviled in the US.
For Human rights: Abu Ghraib/Iraq, Gauntanomo
For world peace: The US is attempting to indefinitely rule the world by force, the doctrine of pre-emptive war has been mutated with wars carried with no threat of imminent attack.