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Originally Posted by Cantankerous
We can't "free" Iraq. It's their own business, NOT ours. America needs to stop trying to be the world's 9-1-1 because it is not working to our advantage.
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I agree with that. A nation has to free itself.
What happened there was highly stupid.
Once the US army got rid of Saddam, offering cash to his officers to clear the path, what was left for the Iraqi? Who could they vote for? When you vote for someone, you pay attention to his/her latest achievements.
The greatest achievement would have been to have freed Iraq.
But there were no Iraqis involved in the process.
During this war, I'd believe there were some Iraqui groups who fought Saddam, but none got to be noticed. No Iraqi was given a chance to prove the rest of the nation he would be a leader, able to deal with choices, make the proper move and so on, during this war. All the credits were tossed at Bush's administration.
Back in 1991, during the first gulf war, inside the country, several groups had started the fight and could have been considered dangerous for Saddam. That was the time for the rest of the world to chose among those guys who were on the verge of achieving something who to support (according to our own interest). Didn't happen. Western civilizations let them die.
I don't understand Bastian.
Saddam is on trial, in a very peculiar box, a too big setting that makes him look like a baby in a park (I'm missing the correct word). Put teddy bears on the pictures and you'll get what I mean.
So, Saddam on trial, who do you want the Iraqis to be freed from?
There's a government, with people with no great experience.
Had they had an experience, they could have seen things coming and answered. What's the Iraqi government answer to terror? Is there one? Or are they leaving their future rest in the hands of the US army? Where's every Iraqi citizen's autonomy?
America's leaders don't consider themselves as the world 911. It's a way of giving the families a treasurable reason for the death of their sons and daughters.