The principal crime of Iraq, from the U.S. perspective was to try and control their oil-wealth, and use that resulting power to reduce the likleyhood of Israeli hegemony in the region.
Is that the "politically correct" way these days to describe Iraq's invasion and capture of Kuwait, followed by threats to invade Saudi Arabia? So, is it your contention that the Jews control Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, or that all of the oil in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait is really Iraqi oil?
Start considering the 10 or so years of "sanctions", with the millions of casualties, birth-defects, etc.
Are you speaking about the sanctions imposed by the UN (the organization so many people want approving wars these days) after Iraq invaded Kuwait? Are those the same sanctions imposed to force Iraq to dismantle its WMD programs which included chemical weapons used in war against Iran, biological weapons, and a very advanced nuclear weapons program? Are those the sanctions which Saddam tried to game by refrigerating corpses from all over the country and moving them to Baghdad for parades of misery? Are those sanctions the ones that he tried to evade with the Oil for Food program bribes worth billions of dollars to officials from the UN, France, Russia, and a host of other nations and organizations while diverting the money intended for food and medicine to contraband? Never heard of them.
As in this case, where the "liberation" angle is emergency spin to cover the lack of WMD in Iraq.
You are wrong, as you can see in President Bush's address to the nation on March 17, 2003, as he delivered an ultimatum to Saddam (hint: before the war):
Many Iraqis can hear me tonight in a translated radio broadcast, and I have a message for them. If we must begin a military campaign, it will be directed against the lawless men who rule your country and not against you. As our coalition takes away their power, we will deliver the food and medicine you need. We will tear down the apparatus of terror and we will help you to build a new Iraq that is prosperous and free. In a free Iraq, there will be no more wars of aggression against your neighbors, no more poison factories, no more executions of dissidents, no more torture chambers and rape rooms. The tyrant will soon be gone. The day of your liberation is near.
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -Sir Winston Churchill.
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The principal crime of Iraq, from the U.S. perspective was to try and control their oil-wealth, and use that resulting power to reduce the likleyhood of Israeli hegemony in the region.
Is that the "politically correct" way these days to describe Iraq's invasion and capture of Kuwait, followed by threats to invade Saudi Arabia? So, is it your contention that the Jews control Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, or that all of the oil in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait is really Iraqi oil?
Start considering the 10 or so years of "sanctions", with the millions of casualties, birth-defects, etc.
Are you speaking about the sanctions imposed by the UN (the organization so many people want approving wars these days) after Iraq invaded Kuwait? Are those the same sanctions imposed to force Iraq to dismantle its WMD programs which included chemical weapons used in war against Iran, biological weapons, and a very advanced nuclear weapons program? Are those the sanctions which Saddam tried to game by refrigerating corpses from all over the country and moving them to Baghdad for parades of misery? Are those sanctions the ones that he tried to evade with the Oil for Food program bribes worth billions of dollars to officials from the UN, France, Russia, and a host of other nations and organizations while diverting the money intended for food and medicine to contraband? Never heard of them.
You are wrong, as you can see in President Bush's address to the nation on March 17, 2003, as he delivered an ultimatum to Saddam (hint: before the war):
That wasn't a hard one to get right.
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -Sir Winston Churchill.