Iraq, Part I
August 1st 2008 04:53
I’m going to dive right into my defense of the war:
U.N. Resolutions: 17 of them in fact. That’s how many resolutions were passed by the Security Council authorizing the use of force if Saddam didn’t provide documentation that he had destroyed his weapons of mass destruction. President Bush was the first one to say “Enough counting to ten over and over again waiting for compliance. The resolutions didn’t say we had to find WMD, but that Saddam had to document he had destroyed his stockpile. He could have avoided the war by providing that information, but he didn’t.
WMD: Which brings me to my next point. The U.S. military has documented that Saddam had the facilities to re-arm with WMD in three weeks. There were traces of biological and chemical weapons found in various places around Iraq. The Clinton Administration believed there were WMD in Iraq, and Saddam did NOTHING to prove otherwise. He continued to slow and obfuscate inspectors.
Time and again Saddam had proven he would use whatever weapons he wanted to destroy his enemies. If he had stayed in power and force the U.S. other countries that went in with us to back down, his political stock would have risen and emboldened him to continue flipping off the U.N.
Terrorism: Al-Qaeda may not have been officially in Iraq, but Saddam still supported terrorism. He played host to the leaders of several terrorist organizations. Saddam also pledged $25,000 to any Palestinian family that sent a member off to blow up women and children in Israel. He funneled money to other terrorist organizations around the world.
Also, by removing Saddam from power, we created a magnet that pulled thousands of would be terrorists looking for their 72 virgins into Iraq. They have been killed, captured or driven out. Now, in every corner of Iraq, they have no safe haven. Al-Qaeda came, played strong arm dictators, and lost the support of the people.
Diplomacy would not have fixed it. Since the invasion, evidence has come out over and over again that three Security Council members had under the table sweetheart deals worth billions to bypass the oil-for-food program. Russia, Germany and France would have had to relinquish all that money flowing into their coffers from Saddam to negotiate with any strength. You can’t win diplomatically with a dictator that doesn’t need the support of more than his well-fed army and a few veto-wielding members of the Security Council to stay in power. We tried it for 12 years, how much longer were we supposed to go? Until Saddam DID have nuclear weapons? Until Saddam made another round of WMD and struck Israel?
Mistakes: Hindsight is always perfect. There’s never been a war where the unexpected didn’t happen, where the enemy was 100% predictable and the eventual victors had a more difficult fight than they planned for. Attacking somebody for the mistakes they made is childish. Sure, attack them if they don’t learn from them, but President Bush did learn. This week the last of the troops that made up the surge went home from Iraq. There was lots of big hoopla . . . nowhere. A brief mention was made in an article about President Bush shortening the Iraq deployments to 12 months and one about there being only 10 U.S. casualties in July.
Poor Obama wants so bad to admit that the surge worked and praise our soldiers for their good work, but he still has the convention at which “pledged” delegates and super delegates can change their mind. Such a huge majority of those delegates are rabid, hate-filled, angry left wingers that could turn on him and put Hillary in his place if he actually dared to praise our troops and make the President look good.
Oil: I just love this one. Yeah, we invaded for oil. That’s worked out well, huh. The Iraqis are in control of all the oil fields and are making sure they can securely get it to the world. Their customers are helping them get it going, yes. However, the hatred and downright evilness of suggesting that President Bush would sacrifice thousands of U.S. and other countries’ troops to get Iraq’s oil sickens me. If you truly believe this you need psychiatric care on your way out of the country.
Iraqi Deaths: Freedom isn’t free. The number of Iraqi civilians killed by U.S. soldiers is a relatively very small number. Only perhaps European and Israeli forces take as much care as the U.S. to minimize civilian casualties in their offensives. Oh, the liberals wail and cry over those that do die. I feel bad for their families and loved ones even if they weren’t innocent bystanders. However, people die in fights for freedom.
Most Iraqis killed were killed by other Iraqis and foreign insurgents. They died for the right to vote for somebody other than Saddam. They died for the right for their kids, including their daughters, to go to schools the U.S. troops helped rebuild. They died for the highest rates of immunization the country has EVER seen. They died for more hospitals and doctors available than ever before.
Before the invasion, they died for speaking out against Saddam. Before the invasion, they died unarmed for just being Shiite or Kurdish. Before the invasion, a pregnant woman came to a checkpoint after getting gas for her car and was burned alive by Saddam’s soldiers with her own gasoline. Before the invasion, tens of thousands of Iraqis rotted in underground prisons, and the same number died just because.
I don’t know about you, but I’d rather die free than die oppressed. That’s why President Bush’s approval rating in Iraq is sky high.
Think on that for now. Argue against me if you want, it will give me more material for part 2, not that I need it.
U.N. Resolutions: 17 of them in fact. That’s how many resolutions were passed by the Security Council authorizing the use of force if Saddam didn’t provide documentation that he had destroyed his weapons of mass destruction. President Bush was the first one to say “Enough counting to ten over and over again waiting for compliance. The resolutions didn’t say we had to find WMD, but that Saddam had to document he had destroyed his stockpile. He could have avoided the war by providing that information, but he didn’t.
WMD: Which brings me to my next point. The U.S. military has documented that Saddam had the facilities to re-arm with WMD in three weeks. There were traces of biological and chemical weapons found in various places around Iraq. The Clinton Administration believed there were WMD in Iraq, and Saddam did NOTHING to prove otherwise. He continued to slow and obfuscate inspectors.
Time and again Saddam had proven he would use whatever weapons he wanted to destroy his enemies. If he had stayed in power and force the U.S. other countries that went in with us to back down, his political stock would have risen and emboldened him to continue flipping off the U.N.
Terrorism: Al-Qaeda may not have been officially in Iraq, but Saddam still supported terrorism. He played host to the leaders of several terrorist organizations. Saddam also pledged $25,000 to any Palestinian family that sent a member off to blow up women and children in Israel. He funneled money to other terrorist organizations around the world.
Also, by removing Saddam from power, we created a magnet that pulled thousands of would be terrorists looking for their 72 virgins into Iraq. They have been killed, captured or driven out. Now, in every corner of Iraq, they have no safe haven. Al-Qaeda came, played strong arm dictators, and lost the support of the people.
Diplomacy would not have fixed it. Since the invasion, evidence has come out over and over again that three Security Council members had under the table sweetheart deals worth billions to bypass the oil-for-food program. Russia, Germany and France would have had to relinquish all that money flowing into their coffers from Saddam to negotiate with any strength. You can’t win diplomatically with a dictator that doesn’t need the support of more than his well-fed army and a few veto-wielding members of the Security Council to stay in power. We tried it for 12 years, how much longer were we supposed to go? Until Saddam DID have nuclear weapons? Until Saddam made another round of WMD and struck Israel?
Mistakes: Hindsight is always perfect. There’s never been a war where the unexpected didn’t happen, where the enemy was 100% predictable and the eventual victors had a more difficult fight than they planned for. Attacking somebody for the mistakes they made is childish. Sure, attack them if they don’t learn from them, but President Bush did learn. This week the last of the troops that made up the surge went home from Iraq. There was lots of big hoopla . . . nowhere. A brief mention was made in an article about President Bush shortening the Iraq deployments to 12 months and one about there being only 10 U.S. casualties in July.
Poor Obama wants so bad to admit that the surge worked and praise our soldiers for their good work, but he still has the convention at which “pledged” delegates and super delegates can change their mind. Such a huge majority of those delegates are rabid, hate-filled, angry left wingers that could turn on him and put Hillary in his place if he actually dared to praise our troops and make the President look good.
Oil: I just love this one. Yeah, we invaded for oil. That’s worked out well, huh. The Iraqis are in control of all the oil fields and are making sure they can securely get it to the world. Their customers are helping them get it going, yes. However, the hatred and downright evilness of suggesting that President Bush would sacrifice thousands of U.S. and other countries’ troops to get Iraq’s oil sickens me. If you truly believe this you need psychiatric care on your way out of the country.
Iraqi Deaths: Freedom isn’t free. The number of Iraqi civilians killed by U.S. soldiers is a relatively very small number. Only perhaps European and Israeli forces take as much care as the U.S. to minimize civilian casualties in their offensives. Oh, the liberals wail and cry over those that do die. I feel bad for their families and loved ones even if they weren’t innocent bystanders. However, people die in fights for freedom.
Most Iraqis killed were killed by other Iraqis and foreign insurgents. They died for the right to vote for somebody other than Saddam. They died for the right for their kids, including their daughters, to go to schools the U.S. troops helped rebuild. They died for the highest rates of immunization the country has EVER seen. They died for more hospitals and doctors available than ever before.
Before the invasion, they died for speaking out against Saddam. Before the invasion, they died unarmed for just being Shiite or Kurdish. Before the invasion, a pregnant woman came to a checkpoint after getting gas for her car and was burned alive by Saddam’s soldiers with her own gasoline. Before the invasion, tens of thousands of Iraqis rotted in underground prisons, and the same number died just because.
I don’t know about you, but I’d rather die free than die oppressed. That’s why President Bush’s approval rating in Iraq is sky high.
Think on that for now. Argue against me if you want, it will give me more material for part 2, not that I need it.
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