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who started the war that resulted in tens of millions of deaths worldwide again?
and why? because of "REAL" imperialistic tendencies?
ever wonder why we can't take some lefties too seriously? this is one reason why
BTW: did it end a war? have we used it since?
who are we occupying again? we'll be leaving two democracies where people have more hope and optimism then they ever had. Although they have suffered through the war, they were suffering without hope before the war.
http://www.therxforum.com/showthread.php?t=572840&highlight=report+iran
well, you for one didn't believe them
I know there were a few threads on the subject, not many people besides myself (and a few others) sided with the Administration over the NIE.
The threads didn't show up on the search of "NIE Iran" which only allows 70 results. I don't have the desire to search manually at this point, but I will after Wednesday if I must.
What was the group or who were the officials who said Iran was nowhere near success?
Why aren't they being held to account?
Why aren't they being vilified, scorned and threatened with prosecution as those who claimed Saddam had WMD's?
Also, I remember well how America hated the thought of having to invade the home islands, which would have caused the deaths of an unbelievably enormous number of people, both American and Japanese. The death toll would have been many, many times greater than those lives that were lost to the Bomb.
They would have repeated the horror of Iwo Jima on every beach, in every cave, in every neighborhood, in every city and every building.
Why aren't they being held to account?
Why aren't they being vilified, scorned and threatened with prosecution as those who claimed Saddam had WMD's?
Also, I remember well how America hated the thought of having to invade the home islands, which would have caused the deaths of an unbelievably enormous number of people, both American and Japanese. The death toll would have been many, many times greater than those lives that were lost to the Bomb.
They would have repeated the horror of Iwo Jima on every beach, in every cave, in every neighborhood, in every city and every building.
The Iraqi people were collectively consenting to whatever level of violence was being waged upon them by Hussein.
Much like the citizens of the Eastern European block, they had within them the option to overthrow their (perceived) oppressor any time they collectively desired.
All in all, many of us find it a curious tactic to state, "My neighbors on the other side of town live in dreadful conditions. So what I'm going to do is take a crew of soldiers over there, kill thousands of them randomly and that will be the first step in making their side of town a better place to live."
Much like the citizens of the Eastern European block, they had within them the option to overthrow their (perceived) oppressor any time they collectively desired.
All in all, many of us find it a curious tactic to state, "My neighbors on the other side of town live in dreadful conditions. So what I'm going to do is take a crew of soldiers over there, kill thousands of them randomly and that will be the first step in making their side of town a better place to live."
You are living in a fantasy world if you think this has a remote chance of happening.
Iraq will be Bush's disaster, and the way things are headed Afghanistan will be Obama's.
This isn't like rebuilding Japan and Germany. We are dealing with people who are about 1000 years behind the rest of the world and are torn by tribal and religious differences.
You think there might be a reason that President Karzai is known as The Mayor of Kabul?
