Or y'all could have just lifted the sanctions on Iraq that kept the population starving and dependent on Saddam for food and medicine, which would have let the well educated and motivated Iraqi people get rid of him on their own. But we can't have the Iraqi people in control of Iraq, they're much too smart to allow American corporations to secure exclusive contracts. Repeat after me: American sanctions on Iraq kept Saddam in power on purpose. He just happened to outlive his usefulness.
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These victims of the elite agendas of your country have a place in my heart, right next to the Iraqis that died as a direct result of the sanctions designed to advance the same agendas. I feel all their lives were needlessly wasted, and none is any more or less tragic then the next.
...We have a populace that is brainwashed constantly about it being under threat...
Sounds a lot like this other country I know, the United States. I don't know how long it will take people to realize that the ordinary citizen, with all the "brainwashing" that supposedly goes on doesn't give a fuck about international politics and just wants to go on with their daily business. As for the Korean war, let's not start mentioning other wars where the North of something attacked the South of something or vice versa due to political reasons. The United States got involved in a war between 2 other groups to advance it own agenda, as it tends to do. Any anti-US sentiment is IMHO justified, especially since North Korea feels (and quite rightly) threatened by the current administration of a country that attacked it 50 years ago.
There is no "powder keg waiting to go off" since the populace is not in control of the nukes (or anything else for that matter). The people in charge aren't going to go start a war because they know they will lose (and the people at the top have the most to lose). They will try to arm themselves so as to create a deterent to the attack from the US that they know is coming.
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Or y'all could have just lifted the sanctions on Iraq that kept the population starving and dependent on Saddam for food and medicine, which would have let the well educated and motivated Iraqi people get rid of him on their own. But we can't have the Iraqi people in control of Iraq, they're much too smart to allow American corporations to secure exclusive contracts. Repeat after me: American sanctions on Iraq kept Saddam in power on purpose. He just happened to outlive his usefulness.
These victims of the elite agendas of your country have a place in my heart, right next to the Iraqis that died as a direct result of the sanctions designed to advance the same agendas. I feel all their lives were needlessly wasted, and none is any more or less tragic then the next.
Sounds a lot like this other country I know, the United States. I don't know how long it will take people to realize that the ordinary citizen, with all the "brainwashing" that supposedly goes on doesn't give a fuck about international politics and just wants to go on with their daily business. As for the Korean war, let's not start mentioning other wars where the North of something attacked the South of something or vice versa due to political reasons. The United States got involved in a war between 2 other groups to advance it own agenda, as it tends to do. Any anti-US sentiment is IMHO justified, especially since North Korea feels (and quite rightly) threatened by the current administration of a country that attacked it 50 years ago.
There is no "powder keg waiting to go off" since the populace is not in control of the nukes (or anything else for that matter). The people in charge aren't going to go start a war because they know they will lose (and the people at the top have the most to lose). They will try to arm themselves so as to create a deterent to the attack from the US that they know is coming.