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Originally Posted by JayJamJah
Right in what you posted. It was believed that Iraq had WMD's all credible international and American intelligence at the time pointed to that. Doesn't matter if it was proven false, it's what everyone believed at the time.
Several UN sanctions forbid the Iraqis from possessing WMD's or Chemical weapons. The UN refused to uphold and enforce the sanctions so the US and other concerned nations took action.
Also Iraq has been proven to be a hotbed for Al-Queda and at no time did anyone say that Bin'Laden was in Iraq, we we're already in Afghanistan looking for him when the Iraq war started.
If you want to say the war has been mismanaged or was until recently, fine.
If you want to make a case for a short sighted approach to the war on terror, fine.
If you want to make a case against war in general based on personal morality, ideals, fine.
But regardless of semantics if you can see the difference between the good guys and the bad ones here and understand the gravity of the situation in whole I feel you are greatly misguided.
Your thoughts?
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No, NOT EVERYONE believed that iraq had WMD's at the time. A huge number of people in the US did not think so, and so did a MASSIVE number of people in canada and other nations.
yes, as i stated earlier, NOW iraq is a hotbed for al-queda operations, after sadam was ousted. they were not, and had not been present before the war.
yes, i do want to say the war was mismanaged. I do want to say that it was a short sighted, and VERY misguided approach to the war on terror. I am making a case against the war based on my personal morals and beliefs.
I do not, however, see this issue as black and white as you do. I do not think that bombing the **** out of a country because of a minority of fanatical people. I do not see that war is the answer in fighting terrorism or anti-wester sentiment in the middle east. Any intelligent person can see that war will never be the answer to this. There has been years of oppression and poverty imposed by puppet governments of the west, and this anti-western sentiment has been so indoctrinated that unless we actually go to the route of the cause, it will never be solved.
People there hate us because they are desperately poor, have no access to education, and have been brainwashed to think that the western infidels are the cause of all their problems. They have seen their governments extort them and drain all resources away to benefit only the rich minority, and they have been told it is the US's fault. BOMBING them isnt going to help increase their regard for the US.