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Originally posted by kevin13579@20 February 2003 - 14:49
Just read this article and have a few points to make:
1) How can you slag america off for 'sticking their noses in where its not wanted' as many of you have said? America is essentially the worlds policing force, and dont say it should be NATO of UN because ultimately it is america that makes the most impact. Take american troops out of pakistanetc. etc. etc. and one can imagine the chaos that would ensue.
2)Do not continue to allow the Iraqi people to be punished because you are 'unhappy' with the amount of power america is allowed to wield. Do not use the iraqi people as pawns in your game for moral superiority - when you allow a monster like saddam hussein to rule for 30 years without so much as protesting against his rule you lose the right to such a claim.
3)Whatever the true intentions of america for starting this war, the reality on the ground is that the majority of Iraqis, inside and outside Iraq, support the invasive actions because it is them that have to live with the realities of continuing as things are.
4)Wars are not fought today by barely trained civilians, they are fought with specialised proffesionals and technology, not by numbers. Thus the numerous points about 'putting your money where your mouth is' are arrogant and stupid.
It is fact, and there are plentiful examples, of Iraqis who have fled the country; Iraqis who's family members have been imprisoned, tortured or have 'disappeared' under Hussein's regime, in fact you will be hard pressed to find a family who hasn't.
I am not normally pro-war, however in this case, i think it has quite conclusively been shown that Saddam Hussein will not respond to anything other than, at the very least, the real and immediate threat of war. This is a person who has ignored 17 UN resolutions, still has a significant amount of chemicals unaccounted for in his country and is yet to account for them to the UN inspectors and has violated virtually every human right in existence.
You're calling us arogant